The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02
SALE OF SWINBURNE
MANUSCRIPTS JAN. 8
Originals Of Poems and Essays
on Vicw-.'COmpleat Ang-
Ter" Shown Also.
ANCIENT BOOKS ON SPORT

Manuscripts. prints and books from
The collections OF NJ. C. n. Borden. job
stewart Kennedy and others. with the
iibrary of the Rate Charles Cooper Town
send OF Philadelphia, were placed or
view at the American Art Association
Yesterday preparatory to sales on Janu-
cry 8 and I.
chief curiosity in the sale I'D doubt
Will depend upon the original manu-
scripts OF the poet Swinburne. some OF
which. 1t Is believed. have never been
published. Among them II the original
for the song for the centenary OF Walter
Savage Lander. whom Swinburne ex-
,ravagant,y admired and would have
rated the equal of Milton. II Is COM
POSED OF fifty stanzas Of sixteen lines
each and contains Il great many emer-
dations and corrections.
There are also the manuscripts OF .lie
Prologue TO the Broken Heart the
Fifth Chapter of L%auncelot." the ee-
sly Victor Hugo Dleu" the Land
scapc by COurbet. Les Ecoliers Britain
nipue" and Another Portrait" This
asst is n pen portrait of Count Mariani,
an Italian political exile who finished his
re in England without achieving any
great fame. but was much appreciated
b. certain well known Englishmen.
swinburnc Diction Easily Seen.
This pen portrait IL evidently an at
tempt at a form OF literature that was
much in vogue in the time Of Nine. de
scvigne and Nine. de Ia Fayette. but
contains the u~nmistakable %Swinbur1e
Il elton, as this pasSage shows
He was lean and sallow. with great
eyes ana heavy brows: his mouth WINS
large ard gentle. In his eyes there was
Always the likeness OF a dream: in his
lips there was always the look OF n
caress. His short, heavy hair receded
from his pale. narrow forehead and
clustered behind In close masses with
out a curl. His voice and tone were
beautiful. at once soft as a woman's and
frank as "A boys. Many men. knowing
Ills story and looking into his eyes,
would have followed him into hell II he
had hidden them. He was admirably
narrow minded and single hearted such
men alone win to their cause followers
worth having. And he was good be-
!nnd all words sinless as far as a man
can see, which is probably as far as the
iiles Of right and wrong extend"
Thu SCI OF l1aak Walton and Charles
Cotton contains a Pickering edition OF
the "Complclt Angler" in bindings by
Stlkeman, that has been extra illustrated
10 a remarkable extent. 1t has been
Increased TO seven volumes by the !nser-
ION of loo plates. including ass por-
traits, 6?6 engravings. 100 etchings and
zoo original drawings in water color and
pen and ink. Among the portraits are
several OF Walton. including Humphreys.
IN four states. Thomas Cranme-. Endy-
mion Porter. by Earlom Charles H.. by
q Smith Richard Hook. by Faithorne:
Hen Jonson, Cromwell. Erasmus. Mil
ton. Shakespeare. Bacon and many
others. 1t contains original drawings
BY Northco:e. an Aiken ~aquatint. an
engraving by Durer and many drawings
OF fishing scenes. birds and flowers.
The Life Of Isaac Walton" by
Thomas Couch. is one of eight printed
on large paper by Prowett. 1873. The
Borden volumes include the British
poets, in iifty-two volumes. bound by
Za"hnsdorf a Napoleon I. collection
consisting OF sixty-rhiee autograph let
tors, .Oj portraits and thirteen scenes.
I'm a David binding a first edition OF
Shelley's "Hellas' in a symbolical bind
ing by Riviere. and Williamson's AN
drew and Nathanie! plimer, Miniature
Painters in a Morrell binding.
sports Drawing ny Cr~uikshanks.
inc WORKS on sporting topics are es-
peclaliy numerous and interesting and
Include many cclored original drawings
ard plates by Henry Aiken, and George
Cruikshark. and colo-ed plates by Rob-
ert C~ruikShank. Thomas Rowlandson,
John l,"cch. William Heath and others.
Tho Aiken plates include tho annals
o. sporting and Fancy Gazette" and
'ho National Sports of Great Britain"
VITA nttv colored plates. The many
Crulkshnnk items include the original Of
the BANS Consumption Note" signed
bv IS. Kctch." which WAS published
shout ISIS. AZ a time when an English
forrer had issued many false notes, for
~" passing uf which many people were
our0t and maze 10 suffer the death
'.nI'''. The injustice OF this impelled
Z u.bsnauh 10 make this Bank Restric-
tluU Note.
Tho 'Ioylug' Includes Egan's Box
ir1.' bound 10y Rvicrc. and The
Fancy" bound uniformly with the Egan
,o'u1lc Thor are also the Gilray carl
ct'urcs, ilcath's Fashion and Folly
r.dt't many famous autographs and
n fI.l IA Nut.pi-n r.