FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138  
139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162   >>  
o hear of as going on. What could have put it into my head even to think otherwise? Well, more unlikely things might have happened--even with Medes and Persians. I do not think you will be offended at my vain surmises. I see my poor little Aconites--'New Year's Gifts'--still surviving in the Garden-plot before my window; 'still surviving,' I say, because of their having been out for near a month agone. I believe that Messrs. Daffodil, Crocus and Snowdrop are putting in appearance above ground: but (old Coward) I have not put my own old Nose out of doors to look for them. I read (Eyes permitting) the Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller (translated) from 1798 to 1806 {231}--extremely interesting to me, though I do not understand--and generally skip--the more purely AEsthetic Part: which is the Part of Hamlet, I suppose. But, in other respects, two such men so freely discussing together their own, and each other's, works interest me greatly. At Night, we have The Fortunes of Nigel; a little of it--and not every night: for the reason that I do not wish to eat my Cake too soon. The last night but one I sent my Reader to see Macbeth played by a little 'Shakespearian' company at a Lecture Hall here. He brought me one new Reading--suggested, I doubt not, by himself, from a remembrance of Macbeth's tyrannical ways: 'Hang out our _Gallows_ on the outward walls.' Nevertheless, the Boy took great Interest in the Play; and I like to encourage him in Shakespeare, rather than in the Negro Melodists. Such a long Letter as I have written (and, I doubt, ill written) really calls for Apology from me, busy as you may be with those Proofs. But still believe me sincerely yours Though Laird of LITTLEGRANGE. XCIX. [_Feb._ 1882.] MY DEAR LADY:-- The same Post which brought me your very kind Letter, brought me also the enclosed. The writer of it--Mr. Schutz Wilson--a _Litterateur general_--I believe--wrote up Omar Khayyam some years ago, and, I dare say, somewhat hastened another (and so far as I am concerned) final Edition. Of his Mr. Terriss I did not know even by name, till Mr. Wilson told me. So now you can judge and act as you see fit in the matter. If Terriss and Schutz W. fail in knowing your London 'habitat,' you see that the former makes amends in proposing to go so far as Cheltenham to ask advice of you. Our poor dear Donne would have been so glad, and so busy, in telling what he coul
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138  
139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162   >>  



Top keywords:
brought
 

Letter

 

written

 
surviving
 
Terriss
 
Wilson
 

Schutz

 

Macbeth

 

Though

 

LITTLEGRANGE


encourage
 
Gallows
 

Interest

 

outward

 

Nevertheless

 

Shakespeare

 

Apology

 

Proofs

 

Melodists

 

sincerely


London
 

knowing

 

habitat

 
amends
 

matter

 
proposing
 
telling
 

Cheltenham

 

advice

 

Khayyam


writer

 

enclosed

 
Litterateur
 
general
 

hastened

 
concerned
 

Edition

 

Snowdrop

 

Crocus

 

putting


appearance

 

Daffodil

 
Messrs
 

ground

 
Correspondence
 
permitting
 

Goethe

 

Schiller

 
Coward
 

window