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again for love. In fact, he could Mr. Sykes has written a workman-have married more profitably and Mr. Humbert Wolfe's criticism is like and quite charming appendix to she more respectably. As it was, the Disraeli saga, says "The they were ideally matched. She had distinguished by two apparently Observer." It was, of course, just found the genius ahe had longed contradictory qualities, its extreme like him to throw an air of mystery for. She looked after his home and intellectual brilliancy and its placid over the origins of the extraordinary his stomach and his hair, eagerly patience with views of art and litera. lady whom he married and just like playing, up to his romance. Char Ther to acquiesce in the romance. Aacteristically she drove down to the ture which are instinctively abhor milliner's apprentice who became House with him again and again. rent to it. Brilliancy and patience Dizzy's wife and a Pesreas in her but never entered the gallery untli seldom go together, but in Mr. own right-what a perfect fairy-she could see him take his seat as tale come true. In fact, however, Prime Minister. And he could look Wolfe they combine so perfectly as it was a fairy-tale, and, therefore, on his marriage as the most extra- to lend to his critical dialogues, did not come true. The lady's ordinary thing in the rich adventure

was a gentle- something of the genuinely Socratic father, John Evans,

of his life. There was not a: figure KING EDWARD HOTEL. flavour. Twenty years ago Mr. man farmer's son who had run in London Society to be sat beside away to sea, had got a commission her, and, best of all, she could never Wolfe would have been considered from the ranks, and had married a be his rival. Perhaps, too, his blood a modern of the moderns; to-day Miss Viney, who came of a race of impelled him. Mary Anne was a in Gloucestershire squires, and was Christian, but all her qualities-her he playfully excuses himself,

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had a little money of her own, and things combined with niggardiness ents, as a traditionalist with one could, therefore, bring up her son in little, her capacity for a devotion

foot in the Victorian grave.

As a matter of fact, he is a critic of wide receptivity, ready to listen to the argument of the innovator, but impregnably loyal to the peces- sity of form in every kind of art. Form there must be; pattern there must be; the common mistake of the revolutionary is that he allows familiarity with 裁 beautiful! pattern to breed contempt of it. Not everything that is new is art. But mind, playing upon matter, interprets nature and gives it meaning. "Nature is a discordant mess; when left to itself it is wholly unnatural because wholly unaffected by the human mind." Art makes nature natural, by effect- ing the unity of mind and matter.

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and daughter decently enough when she was left a widow five years after

Leo Tolstoi,

The late Count Leo Tolstoi, Russia's So Pator's prose is described as most famous novelist, whose 100th an "not having prose, but prose lying niversary was observed in Moscow. He in state." So wit is defined as a was born in 1828. fundamental and sudden arrange.........................

ment of the chaotic, with laughter her marriage. Her husband died in as the mind's verdict upon it. So the West Indies, probably of yellow the critic protests that "no artist fever, just when the outbreak of who ever lived has created by war with France had begun to offer theory, any more than a daffodil him prospects. evolves in accordance with an Act

not staying on this side idolatry. above all her charmingly spontane ous vulgarity-belong to a famillar type of Jewess. Also she had a way with her-a'practical point not likely to escape Disraeli's genlus, She could even get on with Mr. Gladstone, so that her conversation cannot always, have held its tradi tional colour of impropriety,

The stories about her are legion, and Mr. Sykes wisely gives a chap ter to them. Most of them have passed into anecdotic currency, but Mr. Sykes has rescued, an ideal example of the perfect wife in full activity. She had sccompanied her husband to a photographer's studio:

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A FORGOTTEN POET

["The Poetry of Father Tabb." Edited by Francis A. Litz. (Lane, 8s. 6d.)]

The poems of Father Tabb, famous for their brevity, have made many (who know him chiefly from anthologies) think too lightly ofį his gift As much a master, of surprise as the swallow, he comes before us here in bulk, and these ve hundred pages, as Mr. Lifz; who has already written a eritical biography, explains, are not ex- haustive. Perfection" and "not polish was Tabb's aim

The epigram, as a rule, is nearer to verse than to poetry, and the marvel of John Banister Tabb (1845-1900) was that, for all his faith in the tiny poem, he escaped- both the epigram and'the trivial in his verse. The shorter the poem and the shorter the line, the better he is, but it is poetry or nothing. that he offers. Even the sonnet, of which, he wrote many, was apt to be too expansive a form for him; and he was even better at render- ing some tiny fact about a flower,

of Parliament." So, finally, with Mary Anne-she was emphatical- a wilful shrug of the shoulders, ly Mary Anne, though Marianne he decides that "all posts fall. figures in her baptismal register- That is why there is always room spent her girlhood with her mother's for another."

people. Her mother herself married These, of course, are merely some again in due course, her second hus of the flashes emitted from the con- band being an obscure and unsatis- teat of wits; the conduct of the factory person called Yate, who

a larger and a probably lived at Bristol. At any a bird, an accrn, and at evoking argument itself is profounder affair. But even in rate it was at a ball at Clifton that beauty from its hint than when, as its profundity, it is full of light Mary Anne met a well-to-do squire in his religious pieces, be would and colour. Mr. Wolfe allows twelve years her senior, who fell in diminish a major symbol to its his rival debaters to accuse him at love with her and married her. Mr. bulk of his work is remembered in smallest proportions. When the intervals of flippancy. But he is Sykes is surely right in supposing relation to its quality, and minute not really flippant, any more than

that she kindled her husband's

considerable

·

poet. Only publisher could make this clear to everyone, and it is the great merit

of this edition to have donet it.)

The Introduction explains how Tabb discovered what the exquisite narrowness of his scope required

of him, and gives a vivid miniature portrait of the man, the priest, the teacher. Tabb could be witty in talk and in letters.

Even gram

he

he ia a "possur," though some of Parliamentary ambitions. She was! scale, Tabb is seen to have, been al his intellectuni attitudes do savour

of the type which combines humble of the salon, He is, more than anything else, a laughing philoso- devotion with the persistent pher, with a quick response to every architecture of a career.

The Wyndham-Lewises had no voice of beauty, and · the courage: not to dismiss from the sanctuary children, and Mary Anne's heart had of beauty any new pattern, device, room for another object of mingled or fancy, however superficially adoration and patronage. The sight it has been of Dizzy's romantle figure in the unpromising, until tested by, the Infallible touchstone Park fired her onthusiasm. Mutual of the Muse herself. A. W., in friends, the Lyttons, arranged a meeting. Dizzy commented on her "Daily Telegraph.”

extreme volubility, but the friend ship. quickened by political assist LONDON OF THE 'SEVENTIES ance, ripened speedily. During her first husband's life time she had By Julian been admitted to the family circle ["Ships That Pass."

at. Bradenham; after his death Hawthorne, (Murray. 168.)] Mr.. Hawthorne's distinguished Disraeli wooed her with the exotic parentage gave him an Introduction enthusiasm, which distinguished the to the more interesting side of expression of his feelings, English life, which his own ability

да

on-

was more than equal to maintain- ing, and in these recollections of London from the 'seventies wards we have portraits of signi Alcant people in great profusion. The author has a good eye for the salient; in a description of Disraeli a Parliamentary debater he speaks of "that sudden gleam of black eye, like the stroke of the cobra knowing its deadliness." There is a remarkable picture of George Eliot at home and George Henry Lewes interrupting the gon- eral conversation by standing up with uplifted arm and exclaiming, Mrs. "Silence, please-silence!: Lewes Is going to speak! And a story is to be found here, on the authority of Meredith, of an Ingenuous literary pilgrim who was pleased to encounter Swin- burne, but somewhat less exuberant In the morning when the poet finished a recital of his own poems which had been commenced on the prévious afternoon. Mr. HAW thorne's judgments are in the main as sound as his sketches" are [picturesque, and his book is among the best of its specfasThe "Observer.

mar became sparkling when taught it. Since there is room for only one quotation, there is no doubt, on reflection, that it must be this:-

O little bird, I'd be

A poet. like to thee, 'Singing my native song-

Brief to the ear, but lòng To love and memory,

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