The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-04

IL was n London that he suddenly
became q lion. Ensiand likes its
Americanism Deat and strcng-the
past can hardly be employed for the
English taste. Joaquin Miller, as he
had now come 10 call himself. taking
a Spanish sounding name that wen
we'll with the Sierras. Was quite pre-
pared to play 10 the picturesque
which was not atogether a pose.
though he 10 doubt realized its prac-
teal advantages. or his dazzling re-
ception i'll London he has himself Civ
en an account IN the autobicgraphicyl !
notes TO the editor Of his poems pub
lished in 1902 by the Whitaker * Ray
Company Of San Francisco
"Ietters-sweet, brave. good letters
from The learned and the great-werc
SO many l could not read them with
my poor eyes and had 10 cave them
70 friends They found two from the
archbishop OF Dublin. / was To break
fast with him TO meet Browning. Dean
Stanley, Houghton, and SO on. |
went TO an old Jew close by To hire 4
dress suit, as Franklin had done for
the court Of ST. James. While fitting
on the Clothes l told him l was in
haste 10 go To a great breakfast. He
stopped, looked at me. looked me all
over, and then told me | must not
wear that. but he would hire me =
suit Of velvet. BY degrees, as he fixed
me up, he got at, or guessed at some
facts, n when | asked to pay him
he shook his head. l put some money
down and he pushed it back. He said
he had q son. his only family now, at
Oxford. and he kept on liking me up:
cane, great tall silk hat, gloves and
all. Who would have guessed the
heart to be oun there?
"EroYning was just back from It.
ally, sunburned and rudy. Robert,
you are browning" smiled Lady Au-
gusta. .And you are Augusta bowed
the great poet grandlv: and. by what
conference.-the. too, was in brown
! velvet, and 80 like my own that was
q bit uneasy.
Two Of the archbishop's beautiful
( daughters had been riding in the park
: with the earl of Aberdeen. And did
+ you sallop?' asked Browning of the
younger beauty. L galloped, joyce
s%alloped, we galloped all three Their
e We all laughed at the happy ant
: hearty retort, and Browning. beating
the time and clang of gallOping horses
feet on h table with his fingers. re
n peated the exact measure in Latin
o from Virgil; and the archbishop
. laughingly tooA it up. III Latin, wher
he left off. l then old Browning
q All order-it was my first-for
r poem from the Oxford Magazine, an,
- would like to borrow the measure an
- spirit of his God News for Il prairi
~ tire o. the plains, driving a buffal
II and all other life before it INTO
river. Why not borrow from Nirsi
- as i did? He is a rich as one Of YOU
~ gold mines, while ] am but a po,
~ scribe And this was my first Of inns
- London.
,d Fast on top Of this came brcal
fasts with Lord Houghton. lunch wit
Ia Browning, a dinner with Rossetti
meet the great painters; the good O
N Jew sarmenting me always, and i
- ways pushing back the pay"
- His eyes failed oncc more, this tim
70 from overstraining them in readir
~ the poems of Walt Whitman, "the L,
~ book | ever read" But he manag,
81 to 90 some newspaper correspondents
ay and his letters were very popular. l
published books of poetry also,
quick succeSSion-"SongS Of the Su
land in 1873, and "The Ship in t
Desert and Songs of Italy Don d
ter. But he made more money fro
his plays, several Of which, amo,
no them The DaDites'' 1870 and '"T
Silent Man" i1S4S) were very popul:
.ca other books Of this period are 4
Life Among the Modocs," SHADE
Of Shasta. 40, or the cold Seekers
the Sie,raS,' and "Memories Il
I,inse." But his writing did not ut,
4, INft Win NhS odAci. "IS though
buiit him u widely advertised house
p.kl.na cal tho uajohfS looking +,
lad ,hronob tho 1.o,dep Oft. he Nc q
)ne don, thera Ia enjoy tho f.mon VIE
Lrly On. of b;o ,onuast ,ourpays wv,
Palestine aud Egypt, u journey VIII;
inspired him TO write . life OF Chr
!. a and led later to his notable pr
poem, The building Of the City Bes
Dad tiful." But over this picture OF
book did not appear until 1900.
the meantime he had travelled mn
seen much, written much. lie IL
WAY part in the gold rush TO the NIond
in 1897 and wrote picturesque let
fe. about it. He lectured in many cit
dispIa yins the picturesque extey
,.r. that was expected Of him. He W
phs win U" eApeu1t!oh Oh ne titles
h relief of the besieged legations
art fVklN duilHe ,HC OoAel llot'' AIN