The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05

scandal these six months. She is GER
tainiy a maniac"
In 1927 BREvooRT wrote rather re-
of one Of the old boys of
Oockloft Hall:
Il do not know what PAuLpNo IL do
ins--he seldom mixes with his friends--
& lives life of complete seclusion. Tits
Brother has just been rednstated to the
honors Of the Mayoralty, to tho great
discont1ture of poor Horn who during
his reign of a year did everything off,
cialiy 4 individually to entitio himself
30 a reelection"
A bit about the other great literary
person Of America of that day:
Mr.. Spy CoopsR Is now in Paris
having received the barren appointment
uf Consul at Lyons-part of his new
novel The Prairie Is hero and in the
press.--I hope you will soc him-he has
a rough 4 confident manner Of express
Ing himself. but you will md him a
right good fellow at bottom. He was
accustomed to amuse Us at The Lunch
with Inspirations on the french Ian
guase. The person who instructed him
made him very hypcrcritical in the nice
ties Of pronouns 4 particles to the great
amusement of CHAs KINo q others who
are masters OF the language 1 should
like to know whether he thinks the Pa
risians do in point Of fact speak french
correctly"
A paragraph about the popular
DoMINrcK LYNCH:
His affairs are in disorder owing to
an imprudent speculation in brandy
bot he hopes to retrieve them by a con-
tras,t he has made for 10 years of all the
wine produced by the estate Of Chateau
Margaux. He has been figuring at the
Court Of the Lady Lieutenant in Dub
lin q sings US songs composed for him
by MooRE, all gally as ever"
On the birth of his sixth child BaE-
WORT wrote to the bachelor Irving:
you see my dear fellow that my
works are nearly as numerous as yours !;
whether they will live as long and be as
kindly treated by the world Is rather
questionable"
BREvooRr appears to have soured on
old friend PAULpINo as time passed,
for he wrote to IRVING in 1920:
'PAuLprNo has Just put forth a new
work, Tales OF the old Woman, by a
doubtful Gentleman 1t ought rather to
have been Tales by an old Woman &c.
He has certainly lost the art Of writing
he seems to be troubled with a sort OF
mental dyspepsia, everything turns acid
that passes through his mind-& yet
PAuLpINd is a man OF genius"
That same year BREvooRr had occa-
sion to introduce to Irving New
Yorker whose name is familiar:
ooe ~ hiahc you acquainted WIN
the bearer Mr.. 8 F b MORSE
He Is. as you probably know. one of our
best painters. His design in re-
visiting Europe Is to pass into Italy &
devote a twelvemonth to the study and
imitation of the best masters"
AS late as 1913 BREvooRr was still
Harding his letters with the gossip
which IRVING loved:
"Old Mr.. Aston still holds out & is
better. body & mind. than ne was before
you left US. An untoward event has
Just happened in his family which has
stirred his ire; thing which always
does hs,n good. Master SAM W has
married Miss MEpoRA GRIMES and set.
tied upon her his house In Bond Street
which house had been purchased & pre-
viously given or settled upon his frs,
wife, but by our laws became his after
her decease. This affair sticks deer
into the old gentleman's g!zzard He
his accustomed sagacity: a sort of out.
whiting and overreaching in the art o,
bargaining"
So the volume goes, stuffed with
names familiar to every student Of
the old times Of this town. Almost
every person mentioned is one who is
still recalled In local, or larger, his
tory. What letter writing business
man Of the present New York can be
confident that his correspondence may
be exhumed century from now ant
/ found to be as alive as these letter.
| of HENRY BREyooRT?
| 1stanCe IAnhg Faith aS We'll q,