| Show SHADOW OF A NAME BARRY PAINES TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES CHADBAND A111 of 0 Tatd Ma Whn not this CSnien of IIn r link Olnht1 ChI Wnl nUlla1I1 bu Wlluh No Ub At 4 odoek on the morning of rntrt Sumlny nt Ids home near Malvrn Veil died Charles Clmdband With the IItllIIO of CbRdbon thanks to Dickens the retailing worM Is formll tar 11 Is associated with oiliness hY1 poerly anti self seeking At tile very I oulld of the nalll tile Imlulsceut Rrlll starts 011 all faces Ito Is I a national joke But we py for nil our lauuhtir and vo have paid for tho Chailljand jd I do not mellll tn fRY that the DII happy Accident by which Dickens 00 loctod the naive of Chudband for lila Irapcitcr VIa the can o of the death of Charles Cbidbaml It wag not Ito die of an ordinary diFenqecomiormption In fact But tint unhappy accident did OTcrhhadovv the whole of Charles Chad baud lifo It did prevent hlri from Inking the place mid fame to which he was justly entitled It has prevented the general public from rolngone alII glo line of his very excellent works As his literary executor I have had no choice but to destroy every line of manuscript In accordance with his orders Not a iiiKlo copy has been taken still not ono word of life work that Ila Crhnd lIIember fully bo com t milled to writing I do not easily bo lioto in the existence of genlns but I believe that Charles Chadband had genius Sonic far more competent to jndgo than I inn thought the sumu As 1 watched tile last sparks die ont In tho big pile of burned paper It teemed a pity that so much work and such wonderful won-derful rtlfts should be all waited for such u stnpld Ignoble maddening rea ron bocauTO the author had Inherited the IIRIIIO of a character III Dekna Ho was very sensitive but unlike most very jensitlvo men ho wus nol affected or vain Whell I wan first In traduced to him he Said laughing tbd lie was no relation 10 JIll original Chadband Ho rovolcd In Dickon and would quoto tho origin Cbndliaut freely I hud I known him a long limo before I knew that the coincidence of tile liable give him nny trouble at oil It was long btfcio I could make out why ho mould not publish anything IIo used to give the niot absurd reason for his reticence and when drlvni Into n corner hi would si tbathovvns going to publish but not jet Quo iilght when I had jnst finld 1 n long Story of hip Implored him to let mo take It i away with mo to London and ECO what conld te dene No 11 bo said I Nobody No-body would publish It I told him that it might bo refused by five antisocial ill but that the hiith would afterward bo plead that ho hall accepted It Then quite unexpectedly the secret can out No serious work ho sold could possibly do anything associated with tile uaniD of Chudbniid lie luld It no lluht t heartedly that I thought bola bo-la once moro putting ma off with a wrong reason but I soon found that ho wa illcro 110 llUlIHind ruiwers making jests about his mime and owned that ho would not bo able to stand It This nuprlffd incisor ho friiiueutly joked about hit Issues lilnnolf and s 0 did hU friends Ho Jcfi lulul himself Tlmta differrnt ha said That in In conversation among men Ihlll I know lint lould a not have some vnl gur brute who did not know mo at nl doing the Fame thing in cold print II would present toy bluff from the wrong point of view No tho associations of the name arc too strong If yon are called Uhadbanit you lira called Chad baLd and theres an end of It You may do what you like In pnvalo but yon can couio before tho public only as an Intemperate hypocritical dellclou ass uud In no other character whut over Hn would not heir of n pseudonym or of anonymity If his vork snirrrdtd I the trcret would befriend out Ito If ho would be athamed If It did not TOO edand Ie did not think mould it was 121 worth Us wblle to udd to the abrismail output olbail book v by make all this fnRq about nothing I 0011 angry ith hIP ntollnacy II you Aarklitusetters tvtbonGh 11 I f orts netdlnllgo your 1I0mo 0110 fair a1 and bo done with II Ile Prild that II was Id be sliver cowardice und Lie could I not dream of it Very unfortnnati hu bad private means Poverty might have driven him tn overcome his scimlliveuess and to publish Had lie done to it would have been curious to watch tho growth of an entirely now set i of lufcocintloun around bo Blue Chndb ind I think ho was troiig enough to base redeemed tho II11I11e Ho won unmarried said that he did lot behcvo In I hereditary principles rig nppllcd to jokes His real matters for not marryllll was 01 cantle tile die valae of which ho alled Ile wnrlrd fix rdlngly hard said me ho kricAv to JO pDtfoe lIe would nol OWII thai ho tk pleRSulO III hlo talk No ho metal 1 1 its oallloklnlI jotlln plpu are from It I but Ihould mi4 ft if I gave II liP lie took Iurlllou Plllll with las Work mail filllhrd It as thoroughly lIughly aim though It N pro tll cOllOWnto tit appeal 10 the world 1 Oil ties followIng follow-Ing day Ho kept tile final copy of everything ho npprovid but Ids In Iruelloll were that It was all to La I burned ox roll as possible after his death Harry 1aiu In Black and White |
