| Show 1 JOHN MIL MILTON TON POET BORN BOIN YEARS AGO LAST WEDNESDAY Yo England is Busy Celebrating the Tercentenary of the Author of Paradise se Lost Despite Despi e the Lapse aps c df f t Out a Vivid Figure r Over One Hundred and aId Eighty Portraits ts of Him on Record Special Correspondence Co Oct 2 Oil Ol a page JUgO of LONDON rONDON an 1111 old family iam fam y Ii li thin the pos poe B j l session eslon of or the thc British h museum In London Lonion stands an entry John Milton was born the of C December 1608 die half halt an hour after G 6 ck In iii the tile This Tills year eal and more particularly this tills week England has ha been icen celebrating the three hun bun hundredth anniversary of the birth of him who lio ho made mado this tIliS entry In Ili tile Bible nod and followed It with a number of other entries concerning his IllS family It is 13 curious to note that the tile spelling of ot those these th se shows hows a considerable diversity We Ve rC get and bower hI or orborn born and amid borne for the writer was of oC course the greatest English Englishman man of letters hatters of his Ills day and none other othel than the time poet t of ot Paradise Lost Tile The years yeats ears which have havo elapsed since the tho birth hirth of Milton have not Hot suc sUe succeeded SUCCeeded in destroying the tho actual traces of ot his lifo life to the same extent as they ho hohne have succeeded in the thc case aso of his con contemporaries temporaries Hilton remains a u more moro vivid picture to 10 us today than any ally of i his fellow countrymen who rito preceded him 01 or lived lId with him We VO know over ISO portraits of which at least leat four ate arc ar armost most undoubtedly un genuine three representing representing representing him at Itt of ot 10 19 21 1 and 62 respectively and on In jn early calI middle age PORTRAIT T FOUND FOUND THIS YEAR YEARBy YEAR YEARBy By D an extraordinary coincidence col the tho i portrait po at tt rediscovered ov ered al m ry We OVe the tho exhibition of t college Cail the tile col coi collego coile lego le at which he lived und arid studied from the time Jio was sas to tile the time timo when he h took his Ilis MA IfA degree at 23 By B a groat luck Dr p G 13 C William Williamson lIlI son early arb this tills summer found f lind one more painting panting by ly tile the DutcH painter Corne Come Cornelius lius Janssen who came over var to Eng ng land lan 1 and amI took look lodgings near haul ne r tile the house of or Milton 1 the e elder old r scrivener r In I 1 Bread street str ot three doors from Cheapside on E F C the house where the was was born bornand bornand and where was WIS dwelling dw ll ng atthe nt tho age ago of 10 40 This Tills portrait was well known in lifetime and was wa in tho possession of oLt the e third when wh 11 sh died In Ill 1 1127 T since SilIce whon w en li IJ i been heard of ef only A grave gravo and intelligent Puritan boy bo is represented with auburn locks locIs which remind us of the tho old gossip At description of Hiltons halt hair as as light lightbrown brown or CI reddish 1 From FlOm the most important find made mn c In connection with Milton in Ill re recent rent rec cent c nt lime 1 and the tilO three later pOI par portraits traits we WO aro arc able to construct un an ac accurate curate history orthe oC the poets po poc tl features t f I froin his Ilis and ad s i hat haughty Iu youth you h down to tollIs lils sad s d l and ind n blind old riga age agE The lh picture pl turo of ot til th thoung young oung man at n Cambridge rl go It least l ast h distinctively Puritanical of o tm thu series now II W isdn tho th possession poss s1 lolI qt fth the Right Hon Cowls Lwi Harcourt Barcourt First Commis Commissioner of Works WOks and nd hangs gs ii at u Oxford It ItIs itis ista Is a copy op in the th latu eighteenth century ce from Croni tho the now HO 10 lost original he h ihu ius band I Vc Ih r tosh w liel hor what t ne h j ti r 1 I en h about 21 ars of f age rife poet by i devoid deold I y quaintly shown by ti the th fou which lie ho wrote under th frontispiece to 1 the th original edition i bf of f Jils III hi poems p iri hi l JInes been D translated fe roughly as follows 9 h l j I IW W that my I real i l lineament has scanned scat n d Will hot hIOt il t ln In n this detect a bunglers l hand ha d dI I I In ln doubt m Jils his arti art w was The vain valri attempt deride Tl t t in 1 F F r none who Ivilo ho tile the very sery rare print In question and an 1 compared It with the authentic portraits will bo ho in Ill inclined dined to 10 deny dell most i ost humorous the tho story stoy Is that subsequent re lO reproducers reproducers producers of tho the print solemnly added tile e condemnatory epigram In Ignorance alICe ance of o Its meaning The Tho two later portrait one known Imon as the owing to Its as IL Ba near nellt Hart Hartford hartford ford fOld England and aud the other otiler the tile on graving which appeared with the aLt ati thors consent coment as tile the frontispiece to his History of oC Britain are both probably by b the same SallIe mo t VII liam lalU and by IJ thc tho lines lilIes about tile the rYe yes eyes and mouth give nt tes testimony to tho tilO sorrows which fOil fell to MiltOn as a he grow older We Vo SOl see se the tile lIlton 1 of f the wives ives of whom the tha first firt Powell rowel deserted him Illin through boredom after a IL month of marriage and returned to bear hear him three daughters and to die after anet tile the birth of tile the youngest while the tIle sec See second second ond wife Katherine K ll Woodcock died after less than two years of married life We jiVe see soe tho tim Milton of the motherless daughters put UI up so Ill II with his Ills training and md of oC whom the tIle second Mary made the celebrated re remark remark mark when she Silo learned of or this ills third wedding That Is nothing now new If you ou had told 1 me 1110 ho was as dead It would ha We VO see sel too tile tho Milton whose eyesight failed and who had lIed to 10 rely icly rel on tile samo sa InC unwilling daughters for the tho reading rending of the tho Hebrew the tile Syriac H the Greek CLOCk Gl cl the Latin the th lEnt Ital mu Spanish and French while they tiley neglected his comfort conspired with his liln servants to cheat iii and sold a II Jargo Jarge liis his hooks books PICTURES PICTURE OF TIlE THE MAN rAN MANNo MANNo No 10 one Ohie perhaps would talc up seri seriously ell a defense of daughters but that he was hard halll to live with like many man another seat gent man of letters lotters is not to 10 bo 10 denied As with his looks so with his 1115 character we C have hav enough n uh material to picture fairly the thEl man as US ashe ashe he actually was ILS ItS AVe iVe e have his own evi oi evidence dence as to l eln his youth of a certain niceness of oC nature an honest haughtiness and ud either cither of what I WItS was Va or 01 0 what i 1 might Inight be which wl ch kept him from low ow ov de do descents scents cents of mind After Aller tills this it Is not surprising to hoar hear that in the eyes eye c Cs of his contemporaries lie He appeared not ig ignorant Ignorant of his own parts or that at It Cambridge ho he was las not popular being on very ver bad terms for fOI instance nce with his first tutor William Chappell Chap ell vard Bishop of Cork Ho lIo took him himself himself self very crT as as was w lV s but Hut natural In ill ono who wrote II o t and was vas a thorough egotist o Jt Is in of his intense m says that gives me mc tile the greatest pleasure in bi residing works The egotism of nf such a nan man is a revelation reel Uon of at spirit The Tho quality h as necessary necessary sary to the poet might well uvell ho luc h a blot hint in tile the character of or tIle the man m il the tile conduct con of his VIte their theil daughters pointy point strongly to t his being b much less ies personally lovable than ho was great i t The iThe 1 a bore while in will which lie he to 10 his brother r in 1074 1674 he fic left rt the tile money mone due to him 10 II hl illS his first father to the d children I 1 lInt had by uy h her r l dl I IS My r moaning meaning Is that they the shall have benefit to U o thUd sald s portion p rind and what jj iI I ll St les done for tOt them thorn they the haying b been t very v ry un jill un undutiful dutiful I to 10 nie me me The Th pf of or tho th blind poet dictating Paradise lx L st to his ils daughters Is but rt C the lt Imagination agI that picture been wo woo sho the th f toll t li Of p bitter lilies hinO marked the tho face t the I face of f t c nC is hut but buti h t j i who pays PIS the tl e price for Ills PAID p i D Il f TEJ TEN POUNDS he extent ot Buc a j si lii th the jl f P Ten G V A i ii f i f s poet 1101 while thu th Tonson fonson family to whom tho I copyright cop was lIS assigned signed lI lived to toi i Idle Ida In their carriages on OIl the Elte profits Other works woIs wont VOIlE through vicissitudes The rue and Ce jO of or people of 01 so IJ fa famous mn Hi under the tile commonwealth were vere burned bullIed by tho the common hangman alter after the tile Restoration and wo we 0 have laIo tIle the story told to t otho tile the Puritan Baron naron by Jolla John Swale a bookseller Leeds Deeds f In lu Yorkshire an alt honest man luaU though of high church who Will related that he lie could havo ha more money mon for fOl the burn burning burnIng ing of the tile Defense than Baron would give gle for fol the purchase o of It Sonic Some priests in the tile neighborhood accord according accordIng ing illS the Swab Swale used to meet once a 11 aal year al and amid alter after they tiley were well warmed with strong beer boOr they Elley sacrificed to 10 the tho llames the tho authors pro Populo as IlS also the tile treatise against J t tile thc Elkon And at nt one time it was wa not safe to name rame the thc Initials J M 11 being used as In the tho defense deCon o of oC his hl old friends which An Andrew n lh drew dr w Marvell wrote against tile the vituperative Bishop Parker Another Bishop Sprat of or Rochester erased erase tho the word Milton from Irma the tho epitaph on John Phillips In the thc cathedral as IlS not fit lit to lie he in a It Christian Uan church TALK TALE PROBABLY UNTRUE Tim The talc talo of oC funeral of Mil dil Milton ton ten curried carried out by his hi bl previoUS to tn the passing of or the Act of Indemnity Is untrue Ho jo was compelled to 10 remain Iu II h hiding for Cor three i months however in ill Bartholomew Close Cioe Clo e ld where Benjamin Franklin l more than 60 GO years eals later W worked as liS a a It I compositor and actually was In Ill prison for a few fow days dus the bill 1111 was WIlH passed and ho Io was al ni allowed lowed lowel already blind to tulle take UP tm tern quarters in Ill a 11 house near Lin coins Inn Imi und and what were then lied Ked Dion Fields l It Is a curious fact fuet and one to be re regretted In connection with the tho present pre ent London celebration of tercentenary that not nut ono one of homes in III the tite city remains to this day duy ills His birthplace the tho of John Milton scrivener In Bread street sElect hia hie lodgIngs after aft his Ills return from Om his 1115 French and Italian tour in ill St Brides BrIde Churchyard near Fleet Picot street his Ills house and ane garden gardenIn In ill Aldersgate gato street than which In Ills his time tImo there thIo were few fei streets In ill London Jondon more Iron free from rom according to Ills Ids nephew Edward Phillips his es esIn in ill the tile Barbican whither ho hl hm wont alLot after his reconciliation with his Ills first wife In lit High Holborn and in Spring Gardens u n neighborhood hh now chiefly associated with the tue London JAndon County Council that In iii Petty lett France now York Yolk street where hc ht married his hi second wife Iro awl and whence ho fled IlcI after 0 ho tim I to t Bartholomew Close lose anti and his hii hi laSt two abodes in Ill street and In III Artillery walk salk Fields where lie he made the thc third marriage lIIa so 84 to his daughter Mary all these have been swept away wa altogether r or 01 0 tIlt aro ar no longer to be bo identified 1 His HI old lid school too Is gone for St SI Pauls since 1884 has bus loft left the tue churchyard of tile the cathedral which it took tool Its lis name and the thc buildings themselves rebuilt since school days on account of thiv thil fire 1110 of oC 1666 have hae been pulled down don REFUGE The nearest n arest remaining point p of con connection connection between en Milton lIllon anil London is tile thc little cottage coHne In the tho Buckingham shire village of qt Chal dial front St Giles Cues 23 21 miles from the tilO Pity ity lIce it H was that Milton and ane his family took refuge from the tilO great reat plague 1 of jf f London shutting sh up thou their bousu in Artillery Walk rail miLl mid hero horo It was that Judge Jeffreys Jores afterward hero hotO of the tilo Blood Is said sale to t have called upon Milton and asked a l II him whether ho llO slid not consider tho th loss of his sight Ight a Ii on from heaven h aven for f r his 1111 treatment tr oC l diaries CI arles 1 Is I not nolo the th tI loss of pf his ii I L Continued C d on page pae e eighteen c 1 f f I r f I I T l BORN flORN 0 AGO o il ll d 1 ev sv PJ Huada nead sti J judgment on thi King ICing asli h i St Giles fc u a l rett b x 1 1 h d iy ls ca re rt lly r a rv V J th 0 1 h vi d ci into hv t ern still uio 1 as is a dl houie Ther ls is nor noi danger dap g ut cc vl eh t r d the of I L st it al te fit of o 1 erous L Ji l n h 1 s lItos j rm jar ir lentI heads legge I I 1 J l d t able are in county of Buck Ingham It may be I t tl for they thoy ale areto to i at Horton miles from Milton ni hIv lIv d dOr Or l 1632 t to 1639 ST yea ellis ottlie the poets hife e remained 1 mo n III d to be bo s l Artillery 11 I 2 n IK ret m from irom nC J S p Io wh e lo td tn tend the tho l I st SL a o v pC nl Ith r l i at t parish church tI Q l 1 gh t d l JO m t r c Carf r of g wire ho rc her hor lri in hir already will and r him tin ln as s tio ho sat nt at at home In ri his gray cloth suit Tor or ii took ja walk a bro d ivil pp i lna Gia cl cloak k andI di i Iw th I 1 ha lg i illg Ing itt It s d have I Ia a chapter ot of tho BIble in I Ian an lI 15 e noo noon 1 I thiv ath r pr prevented vented a Walk ho p t 9 IP Ht i machIne antl I Il l ph physical sl for the home honie d on organ org or r Ithel the both thoC wl which loh i 1 iho ho h 1 1 I S ss hlin again gln until l I I I visits until eight while the close loser of f d sd do voted to a ai i light supper 01 of ae d b bya of vator t terminated 1 ot of oft t d It to think that Milton Mllton did not tn itO t ICa cn of f l e i Ing as for thou when Ii dl t Ul dl g tha h d r hv vis s d |
