Show JULIAN HAWTHORNE 1 Famous Men and Women Which He Met While Abroad Yes I have met many famous men I and women while abroad said Mr Julian Hawthorne the novelist to a I Washington Post reporter Carlisle I I never saw lie was very old and living I at Chelsea a life of strict seclusion I did I I not care to disturb the old gentleman by i i I going to stare at him simply because he I was famous I saw George Eliot quit a i number of times but it was not possible to get upon very satisfactory terms with I I her There were a few who enjoyed en-joyed her intimate friendship but the vast number even the most fortunate could get no nearer than her receptions brought them and then they were fain to be content con-tent with sitting silently while their hostess I host-ess from the unapproachable throne of her greatness delivered brilliant monologues I mono-logues in the manner of Coleridge and I Carlyle With Browning I was upon I terms of a most delightful nature That powerful poet is also an accomplished man of the world But in his appearance apparnce you would never discover either the poet or the social genius Tennyson never never casts aside the robe and chaplet of the poet Wherever and whenever he appears the image and superscription of the bard is written upon him I knew Ruskin Rus-kin the great fieryhearted man Anthony An-thony Trollopo was one of the men of letters let-ters whom I knew best I was admitted to a most intimate acquaintance with the novelist nov-elist Blackmore Among the younger literary men none is more remarkable than Edmund Gosse When the comparative com-parative disadvantages of his early life are considered in connection with the amount of rare work he has already accomplished at tlurtyfive years of age he must surety be pronounced a genius Andrew Lang is another rising man whose talent however runs more to scholarship than literature Did you see much of artists My associations were chiefly with them for once I thought I would be an I artist myself My father always told me I never to be a writer I knew Millais i who stands at the head of contemporary 1 English art Sir Frederick Leighton the president of the Royal Academy Alma Tadema the great Dutchman English by marriage and adoption and Watts who in the highest and rarest qualities of imagination I im-agination has never excelled in art Did you meet Hugo or Turgenieff on I the Continent I No Victor Hugo was like Carlyle I aged and inaccessible I had made once I an engagement to spend an evening with I Turgenieff but unfortunately something occurred to defeat it to my lasting regret I for I never had another opportunity to I meet him I 1 Are there any manuscripts of your fathers which have not been published j Yes there remains one It seems that in the later years of my fathers life he brooded deeply on the subject of immortality I im-mortality The posthumouslypublished I Dolliver Romance was his first attempt I to embody his thoughts upon that theme The studies for Dr Grimshawes Secret which I recently edited show his mind still grappling with it in another phase The unpublished manuscript is still unpublshed sti a I third endeavor to complete the expression I expres-sion of his mind upon the great topic Will it be published I I Mr Hawthorn shook his head and I smiled I doubted said he the propriety I pro-priety of publishing Dr Grimshaw and 1 at least shall not undertake to give I the world another of my fathers uncom II pleted works I |