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The Prime Minister's favourite | of them both in his first "Imita-books are the Greek and Latin tion of Horace".
Classics; and he is probably one Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith, the. And although Pope had been of the very few men in England well-known novelist, has recent? unpardonably rude to Lady Mary, who, without, any pretensions to she hardly made things any better great scholarship, can deliberately been declaiming against a large by her spiteful references to the rend Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and percentage of modern writers who poet's obscure birth and hor Homer, for pleasure. have or so she afrins-reduced frankly personal observations: on Neither at Harrow nor Trinity the art of fiction to "the standard his "wretched little Carcass". De-College, Cambridge, Wae Mr. cidedly, Pope's "Mob of Gentlemen Baldwin a great reader in the of the amateur. With dua defer-who Wrote with Ease" found a sense in which the expression is ence to Miss Kaye-Smith, It is a vigorous and none too mealy-understood at a University. It was precisely mouthed an ally in the redoubt-after he left Cambridge and en- where the amateur novellat ends able Lady Mary Wortley Montagu-tered his father's business that he But probably the least amateurish began as a recreation in the even- and the professional writer begins. of the amateur authors of the ing to read the Greek and Latin Miss Kaye-Smith would have it period were Lord Chesterfield, Classics more attentively than he that it is la question of the whose cynical lay-sermons on con- had ever done at Cambridge. broad outlook taken by an, author are they not embodied in his in his father's offices and his even- temporary morals and manners those days he was engaged all day in the conception and execution of famous "Letters" to his son and ings were his only time for read- his work, as against the misera. his godson? and Horace Walpole, ing.
of whom Thackeray wrote: "No- scopic views, the limited range, of thing can be more cheery than
little difficult
to
say
An Evening Student, the unpractised writer. It might Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all In addressing the students at also be argued that an amateur is through them: wax-lights, fine Birkbeck College, Mr. Baldwin any one who publishes at his or dress, fine jokes, fine plate, fine said: "I am, I think, a fair ex-
equipages, glitter and sparkle ample
of an evening student. her own expense, DI at least there; never was such a brilliant, Many people tired to educate me guarantees a sum sufficient to in-jigging, smirking Vanity Fair as in my younger days, but their demnify the cautious publisher that through which he leads us." efforts were not always successful. This is true enough, for Walpole's A great part of my education took against possible and, in some cases, "Letters" constitute in themselves place after I went into business." almost certain losa; while, on theja faithful and an entertaining com- other hand, the professional is one mentary on the social history of
the day.. who can rely upon being remuner- ated for his work-not as regarde
Open to All,
Another confession made later; by the Prime Minister shows his sincere love of Greek and Latin literature. "If a man's face can light up," said Mr. Baldwin, "at nothing to do with it but in pro- whichever one chooses to call it that man for me is a brother, who- dustman or a duke." portion to the instinct with which of literature, the practice of which ther he be
It seems a little strange that in
his merits as a writer, that has the trade, career or profession/a quotation I know and love, then |
might reasonably
suppose
he has gauged the public taste of one
One of the trials that the Pre- the moment, and the shrewdness would demand a period of appren-miership has visited upon Mr. with which he exploits that know-ticeship, or failing this, at least Baldwin is that it has to some ex- ledge. The time is not so very far some sort of a nodding acquaint- tent separated him from his books. - remote when to write for moneyanceship with life, no obstacle A secretary at No. 10, Downing-1 or even to write at all for publica- exists to preclude the neophyte street informed me a little while tion--was looked upon as deroga- from trying a fall with fortune, ago that Mr. Baldwin's library was tory to the dignity of the indivi- In the old days there was the for- now scattered; some of it is at dual. Congrove, the Restoration midable obstacle of frank, out- No. 10; some at Chequers; some dramatist, was aghast that Vol-spoken criticism to be considered elsewhere. The result is that the taire should visit him in his capa-criticism of the Edinburgh and Prime Minister may sometimes be city as dramatic author, rather Quarterly Reviewers' type for ex looking for a book he has left at than in the (to him) much more ample more curt than kind, more Chequers and vice versa. In this congenial role of man of fashion often iconoclastic than encomiaa- connection the following story, -an attitude that provoked as tic. But to-day, when every critic which was told to the writer on greatly as it astonished the in-has either just written a book, or good authority may be worth re- genious author of "Candide" is contemplating the writing of peating. Horace Walpole, while languidly one, and therefore may be the admitting the authorship of "The criticised of to-morrow, it predis- Castle of Otranto", referred it to poses him to a spirit of charity
The occasion was a small din- the freakish whim of a dilettante that mildly endureth all things, ner party at No. 10. A lady re In search of a new sensation; of lest, peradventure, in the future marked to Mrs. Baldwin that the the "Anecdotes of Painting" he his own aina of commission and Prime Minister was looking rather was the patron and compiler rather omission prove so many stumbling-worried, and added that she sup- than the "onlie begetter." Walter blocks to the charitable instincts posed the eares of high office were Scott was prouder of the pseudo-of others. It is, in short, the par- considerable. "Yes, they are," ba Gothic glories of Abbotsford and able of the wordly-wise steward sented Mrs. Baldwin, "but I think the fact that he was a considerable over again.
what is worrying my husband, as landowner, than he was of having
a matter of fact, just at the mo- written
ment, is that he has left some books he wanted at Chequers."
the Waverley novels,
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through the proceeds of which he It is more especially in regard had been enabled to antisfy his to works of fiction that, the trail Mr. Baldwin's address to the ambition to live in something like of the amateur is so much in evi- Classical Association in 1921 is books by W. H. G. Kingston, Jules At Harrow, Mr. Baldwin read the feudal state of the grim old dence at the present time. If a really Itself a classic, and should Verns, and Captain Marryatt, but Border days, And one may be man chooses and can afford to be read by every lover of litera- these books, which were supplied quite sure that Oliver Goldsmith publish a volume of verses at his ture. It is the address of a man to hire from home, did not great- was mora concerned over the fit of own
expense, thereby stamping who has something in him of a ly interest him. his gold-faced. waistcoat and himself indelibly as an amateur-poet, and it will probably continue claret-coloured coat and breeches he can debit the loss to his to be read long after Mr. Baldwin's Shakespeare's plays, it is per than he was over the sales of "The luxuries account, in the same man- political speeches have been for- haps almost unnecessary Deserted Village", or the reception ner as he would, a box of cigars gotten. Here is one of the most have a profound interest for a accorded to the chequered history or a case of wine. Nobody (ex- interesting passages in the ad- Prime Minister who could of "that courageous monogamist", cept the publisher) is the better, dress. Mr. Baldwin, in alluding to words like these: "The Vicar of Wakefield": while and nobody but the author is the the fine brevity of the ancient "To me, England is the country (opposite Queen's Theatre)doubtless John Bunyan was more worse, for the transaction: for Remans, said: "It is distressing to and the country is England, and anxious about his soul's salvation very few people read poetry, that find ourselves saying in ten lines when I ask myself what is Eng- than he was about the permanency is, modern poetry. With regard to what the Romans said in five. land, when I think of England, of his literary reputation as an al-fiction It is an altogether different Moreover, the ancients did not over when I am abroad, England to, me legorist.
affair. A large proportion of the elaborate their thought, being con- comes stealing through my vari- novels that appear, at the present tent to leave something to the ous genges, through the Of course, a patrician contempt day has manifestly been issued mental processes of the renders, through the eye and through cer-
This is a fact, I think, that can- for the pen did not prevent a good at their authors' charges. There Why do we all know about the tain imperishable scents". many titled authors of the exist plenty of reputable publish- beauty of Argive Helen? Not be- Speaking of Shakespeare the not be doubted. He has a fine.
imagination and can, at times, ex-.. eighteenth century from shedding ers who would have nothing to do cause Homer gave us a catalogue Prime Minister once said: “.
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For generations that bell had "THE CHINA MAIL," Generaling by the curious in such mat The hardship fails an those im- pleasure. Not long since, when stances had not in the first in-
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Speaking to the writer on this valley of the Arno, when after tering portrait of the noble Lord mature art of the amateur, in its novel by chance and it interests as Gosling Serag. And among stereotyped conventionality and him quickly, he will probably subject, one who knew Mr. Baldwin four hundred years, it "atirred the women writers of title in the lack of any real knowledge of life, finish it if he is able to find the in his earlier days, said that he heart of an Englishman and made eighteenth century, Lady Mary is a crying sin against the immut time; but if a book of the kind has gifts that might have won him him sick for home".-W. T. R. in Wortley Montagu reveals few of able canons of literary art: falls to attract him very quickly, a reputation as a man of letters. "T. P.'s Weekly'.
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