| Show Americans May Still Visit Stoke Poges Poes Our London Literary Litem Letter I Special tj 1 r ODO Jul July 11 Before this let letter letI probably one ot of o L I ter in te prInted the Ibe nw molt popular Mecca of oC the i thousands of f literary who bo visit t England annually Park which sold Stoke Sloke will have hiLve M been Include Stoke Pouts Pole P J where Gray Ora b lot be begin gan gin and hit his JI Immortal KleRy I It ii to come under the hammer on June 17 27 and there ther I II much lateral t to ee see j who the purchaser of this Oal historic stale aa n l t literary shrine will III 11 be lit Or course OUrt however the coming oming hange of oC owner onner n ownership ff ship will difference In III the tb ad admission mission of ot to the famous f moul country Churchyard where here the lItt Elegy Kle was ao composed and anti where h e Ita Its author lie lies burled buried Meanwhile the Ih tory story of Ora long lonK Ion association with Stoke loJe Is U being recalled r It uan w wt In that hi his moth mother mothr er em r took up tier i evidence there thre but since th that t time the th quaint house houe hOu with its Ita U porch old world parden ha bent been greatly altered II It Still tm even v m M U it nI existe today It i Is ia to understand 1 why hy 11 the vt ot t hould be b ao so favored by the th muse muae mu Ora had been there only a few feu f days day when hen the tb poetic P n seized ul upon uron him and nd he h wrote smote 1 roto hi his hili CW OM to 10 Spring This Thin a anoon till t noon loon followed b hi his hll Ode o oil lit i a I DUtant I Prospect Prope t of nf Eton ollege which c ran n be bf seen een n from front a t near nar the house houe The elegy 10 was begun at St t Stoke In the same name year yar laid aside alde for seven Men sera aara n up ul again at t Stoke Stott rough roughly ly I finished at Cambridge and finally given Riven the Ule lI h of perfection at Stoke I In 17 me meTo To r hr hla with Itla Stoke I is II due duft another of cf Ura Ora poems poem In a fin finold line old Tudor minor m ma nor house houe there dwelt a 1 aLady Lady Lad something of a literary lIt lion hon hunter a species of which Gray h said and retiring hud had a gre great t horror She w you was not a S bit hy shy h herself aid 4 was a at determined tn to make the tbt poets poet ar ac t fhe Ithe f Importuned Mr Yr Purt Purl Stoke tok for tor an Introduction 1 rl n it itt lion tion but bu on Oli the ground that hi his hili own cnn with Ora Gra was 55 a very fr slight Might one nn fn r t te the responsIbility But he she that thai one of h her r i guests Lady knew kne u Ii lady Brown Broll and that this Lady lAfty Drown HI HIjo jo d the IIII felicity of or knowing Om Slit h ht mile nale this an in e for calling on him without An nn The MIl be ht became htam camp came am quite rood good friends friend afterward and M Lady tried tri to Lb matT marry th Ih poet peel to her ber niece at any rate rat he b gi r g the tbt Idea that some such lI h ilot wa was afoot Gray Oray on commemorated the rJ of if 1 his bla bl Introduction to I Lady dy In iii Inthe the IIII Long lAn and put rut Inter floor IuM lurt name In It II too to Thai That ao to mortified and anno d th Ih that he h did of shortly after afterward ward of its It literary III na Hath Bath I It is one of ot the th cities mOlt moat by American A travelers and Henry fielding fleMings l house ou theta thoro will to be bemore more T 1411 dl identified by br fut t v Vi Iton because b au nr n a memorial tablet which w Yo was unveiled this WM X by Sir Arthur Conan onan ivy Doyle I dg aa U the old house huu I is III railed called was wan occupied pied bj by b the h author nf or Tom tem Jones Jon from le U to tn 14 I c during which arii eSrO Fielding mixed f H with nit the Uto able folk tolk wh nh h thronged the ballrooms ballroom of nf Bath fine fin ne of hi lila there was war Ralph Allen the th man wise wile revo the th postal service f but bu who tin I a assured of ot ItT Ity perhaps as the thC original of Squire All worth It II Tom Jones Jone In lit un no veiling fOllin the th I on ona Isyle 1111 rein Irk 1 I oula rl that If ar Bath na th placed 4 ui t r 1 ry In iii n which 1 a I h hj had I d 1 eli 1 It would woid be the tilt them m mM i ft 5 H 11 In tn Europe I II S I IThe I The silt All n 11 11 t al i h more store Ordial r 1 t s T i and ad Gee t l tri i i ir 11 x I I c lot of 01 German M IU U MR f iA Ai i 11 1 I n ha hu led It to I some soene re M lKa at 4 t in 11 the beginning t of nullum In III ii There rf a as In most an n the Ih first AI t newspaper M kt earl earU att in tb 1 Ibe l seventeenth nth con cen century tury lur the pioneer being a bookseller of nf who ho brought broucht hut ut the Ih ltd t number of the I t ter Journal in Hit me The nul German I E paper nf or real r nl however h f r the thio th un founded it at b by the bookseller Cotta In 17 w wIn In the meantime the place of nei j had bid been larj filled flied h by new neos letters letter circulated In manuscript manus Many Mn of these came rAme from front London but bu buthe the tb most moat fatuous we was that which wrote role from Part PAri and which WH mn Al tinned alter after hi bl his retirement h b Mad tire de le Steia fri nd Henri Moister Me 11 of the German Guman potentates potentate i this tIl correspondence an anI I letter has haA been published bed In wit ii M Md d do Steel U tn to the king of or Soc Hue den that he ht alo also should S The Tilt famous viIi nf f Edmond About n Saverne In Is l to 10 be turn into a ui I hostelry A t syndicate hits Iun hll Ju JUIt C TI ac a 1 possession nf of th Ih the erty rl thc tru larka rk and bk i nd nit I It II Into Inlo a summer ummer Thi Th Ti tran transformed IJ residence 13 a 3 to tob t 1 b bi be ralle the Hotel to II roni ti Is the author e J TI 11 t at the Ih entrance e t tj Ills his hoj taMe r tn f where her lie ht enter entert t d I lI I the Ih French 11 of ot the I h period The Tb la II n a beautiful one 01 and the I II enterprise will nIll attract many i III I It II But th they will 11 have to M cautious 1 I how they 01 Ot matter ma I I or ot tte may ny m In ni c cI I with the regulations 1111 h the herman enforce in lu the thu In lii l j ind of his hi new f paper article ankles co cost COil t thim him a I weeks Imprisonment the tier Ger German mans man I unlit Ing on In him a as a t tI s subject t of Ir the Fatherland because lie he had been born In Lorraine I HAYDEN CHURCH |
