The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-31
more wary and considerate about than
entering into a partnership"
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entering into a partnership"
Some characteristic passages:
Moorc's new poem Is just out. ! have
not sent Il TO you. for II ~ dear and worth
less. II Ia written In the most cfeminate
taste and ut only to delight boarding school
GIRLS and lads Of nineteen. just In their
first loves. Moore should have kept TO
songs and cpigratnmatic conceits. His
stream Of intellect Is too small to bear cx-
preston. II spreads into mere surface.
I have weighed every tl,ing pro and con
on tho subject cf returning home and
have for the present abandoned the idea.
= . n 7 must scufie with poverty let
me do 1t out Of s~ight-where ! am but
little kuovn-wherc I cannot even con
trast present penury with former anu
cncc. In this country I have n plan for
immediate support--it may lead to some
thing bettcr-at any rate IL places me FOR
the time above the horrors Of destttution
or the more CALLING notifications Of
dependence.
As yet / .rus, my mind has not lost Its
elasticity. and I hope to recover some
cheerful standing In he world.
l fee, March. 1871 great dindencc
about t,is temperance In literature
t"Ske,ch Book"l. I am conscious OF my
iinpcrfecttons--and my mind has been for
n long time past so prcyed upon and agi-
tstpd by various cares and anxicties That
| fear It has lost much Of It's chcerfulncss
and some OF its activity.
seek only to blow a Hute OF accom-
panlmcnt In the national concert. and
leave to others to play the nddle and
French horn.
I am sorry tina. Paulding has under
taken to continue ~"Salmagundi" without
consulting mc. lie should have done so.
as | am implicated in the first series. The
work wac pardonable as a juvenile pro-
duc;ton. and has been indulgently re-
celved by the public. But 1t Is full OF
errors. pueriiities and mpertinences whicn
James should have have had more Judg-
ment than to guarantee at his mature age.
I was In hopes II would gradually have
gone down into oblivion.
I would observe that the work t"Sketch
Boot"l appears to be n little too highly
pointed. | don't know whether my manu-
script was so, or whether n II the scrupu-
lous precision OF the prlnter-htGh point
Ing Is apt to injurc the nuency of the
style II the reader attends to all the
stops.
There are two aspects in which this
notable publication may be viewed.
In the slighter Of them, 1t Is like a
new book in Irving's characteristic
vein, with an added note OF personality.
There are skits On American and Eng
lish character and affairs. anecdotes
Of Moore and Scott, Disraeli and JEFF
frey. Anacreon Moore. Hallam,
| Crabhe. Mrs. Siddons, the Rev. Ram
Kennedy and others, and references to
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Paulding,
Bryant and Cooper. But with that
catalogue the tale of the books trcas-
ures is only begun. These things are
entertaining. Besides them there is a
wealth Of genuine biographical daa,
filling in the outlines of the Irving Of
tho books. We sec him worrying for
the fate Of his sketch Book" faint
with joy AT the news Of its favorable
! reception. filed with misgivings that
he may not he able to repeat We
read his suggestions Tor revision. see
, him at work: We admire the consistency
II his devotion to his art. his unfiag-
sing quest for materials. and We real
ize a. never before just what II was
that made this man. who might have
been mercy ore Of the flock of diet
tante writer's. truly great. The con-
,rast with Paulding Is most enlighten-
iUg.
And not least Of the good things il
the shadow picture of the unheard
! correspondent. You cannot read these
fine letters without an accommodating
respect for the true New Yorker to
whom they were written, Henry Bre-
wort.