The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30


He never forgot. Gratitude colorcd tho
friendship with us that followed. even In
the days when he was one OF the most
talked about men In London. He knew
thai always by his work alone would he he
jud sed At Buckingham street, and to j.
he brought his dra wings and his books for
criticism. Iie brought his schemes ns we'll,
Just ss he brought the youth not only "
yeare but Of temperament TO out Thursday
nights.
Henley too and his "young men
seem wholly delightful in these pages,
and We drop the suspicion that ome
how moderated our admiration of Hem
ley because OF his attack upon Louis
Stevenson. He energies a giant, a hero
in Mrs. Pennell's pages:
Rarely has q man 80 hampered by HE
body kept his spirit 80 gay. He was meant
10 he q splendid creature physically and
fate made Of him a helpless cripple--who
was II once described him ne 9TH wounded
Titan? Everybody knows the story: he
Hmade sure that everybody should by telling
II In his Hospital Verses" But cverybody
cannot know who did DOT know him how
bravely he ccepted his disaster. It seemed
to me Characterised once when a Young
cousin Of mine. a efri At the most suscep-
tible age Of hero worship. meeting him for
tho nrst time In our chambers and volun
teerinG . in the absence Of ANYBODY else
available TO fetch the cab he needed.
thought his allowing her to 20 OF such an
errand for him the eccentricfy Of rcniu.
and never suspected his ismeness until he
stood up and took his crutch from the
corner. There was nothing about him to
suggest the cripple.
lie was a remarkably handsome man.
despite his diss hility. tall and lars' and
1 fair. q noble head and profile. a shock Of
red hair. short red beard. keen pale blue
eyes. his indomitable gaycty hlling his
face with life and animation. smoothius
out the lines of pain and care. lie was 80
Sriking In every way. his individuality 40
strangely marked that tho wonder Ii tho
; good portrait Of him should he tho rN-
ccption.
What evenings those Thursday eve
nings must have been when John
Oliver Hobbies, Henry Harland and
Mrs. Harland. Kenneth Grahame and
George Moore and John Lane and
Max Beerbohm. Aubrey Beardsley,
Arthur Tomson. Phil May, George
Stevens. Henry Norman. George
Moore. Bernard shaw. Violet Hunt.
Graham Tomson. Rosamund Marriott
u,o,.o, aronnad 4, 20 ,,it, a.,
whoro aro ,ho gori,so. ~ ,o.dor ar,,
wb,, 10 tho ,.or,d en- noo, ard cmn,,
and wboro arc tho srows NJ yo.,or.
y,ar, CO rarv ~ ,h,so u,,n or,o
,.iroJ 30 >srs p,rror ar na,a rn,,
the shadoky land:
l remember now "hen shev were with vi
anu .ne TAX wa AZ us n'audes' ana some
49, "'. .a'" ."".
cnr,sin. x.r. never dawn mon Tho ons
spectacle W. could oner-thc river van
the boats trailing their lights down 1T,
shadowy reaches and the cnbankment with
the lights OF the hansoms flying to and
FRO. and the bridges with the process son
:, "a" u an< s''s "n'
Wsri.x r,ou,s .aY .,uoa, :, ,iro. ns =,
,brohs win NO an, ,hera".-u,,h , no.
too intense. +; seemed. ever 10 wear i,sel,
out. And yet now only two or three o.
the old friends Of The Old Thursday nights
are LETT TO look down with us upon Tho
river where !, no"s oe'ow our windows
~ So
,rsa, uor.m.r, uI,hou, 81
Henry Harland plays the largest
part In the Nights in Paris anc
Of him We still have his own por
traiture in all the later books-foi
most OF his heroes were himself. Yer
laine appears too in these pages, z
slight but vivid sketch. ana Nvctt'
Guilbert when she was still slim an,
wore a v shaped bodice"
The memories OF Paris were Sc
| uOWn IN the wear Wnen yDl me mrs