| Show Remembers Renel belS How Scott Revealed Himself self Correspondence I r Feb ISome unusually 1 LONDON I Interesting reminiscences of ot Sir SirI SI I I Walter WILlel Scott Scot have Just been given i Cronl Croal a venerable mu mil musician by hy I who enjoys the tho II ot o Inn of or having talked to Sir falter Waler tho of o being only survivor of or those who heard him declare publicly that he h was WAR the long unknown author of or announcement of or This famous course made at a n dinner at nt the 1 burgh cOlne assembly maie room In 1827 Croal who played at al tho feast WAR then extreme extremely ly Iy young but practically practical everybody M I e I In lu Scotland nt nl the time he been ben Interested In the mystery over and amI re remembers of or the authorship members vividly every detail of the at tho assembly room Sir II Walters announcement did dil not nol says r come quite is 8 n surprise Proal Croll ole for tOI It I had been bee hinted that ho he reveal himself I can recall recAl the suppressed Interest of o the tho gathering the dinner proper poper It Il wn wal walIn In n reply to 10 tho toast of or his hie health that Ir lr Walter admitted the soft soc Impeach I con can remember his closing ment words exactly They were I nm tho Iho solo Rolo Iori undivided author of or Waver Waverly ly I Needless to soy there waH great enthusiasm m The company rose on en the roof oot would masse I thought mi ome off Scott WAR congratulated all ni ole It J Scot a I gay glY night the utmost conviviality He was lightsome and ond gay Cronl nys Je of oC WI Sir Walter and looked the PI nl type of or a IL line lne old olt Scottish gentle tp nan animatedly with one of or Tal he law LW lords sitting next to him Ho Homade Io made nolle a 1 speaker and young oung though I was OS I carried WAY 1 n 1 lasting Impression of or his kind v social disposition In JI the course of or the tho evening eon Cl the musician Sir Walter Waler from ho head hen of or the th table complimented Imrie MAckay the comedian Who WAi present upon hl success In tho ole ot or saying ho hohall hall bad more of ot tho t character than ho over have anticipated ho was wall sitting neo near us ls was IS ra cd And I 1 distinctly him saying Who would have hava thought I get euch uch a 0 compliment from tho thorent rent Unknown l Not unknown now tor ter jocularly retorted Wat al alter lAter Ater In life Mr Croal Crool was WAI nt ut Ab Ah times once there was WAil nuked A kC by h Sir WAier Scott 10 piny somo 1010 Scottish to 10 him nn an Invitation I responded to with wih I cays 1 the old all musician I I Pemberton hns his Just a n young I writer the compliment of or accepting a n plot from undertaking to write n novel novel ovel In collaboration with him The e author In question Is Arthur T who Is the tho son lon of o General of or the Guards n cousin of or tho Earl narl of ot Durham Ho II Is II n grad of or Cambridge This Is the first time that Pemberton ever eyer has ha consent consented ed cd to tl make lalle use of or any al plot not by hy himself though he declares that are arc offered to him very every yen year 1 Tha novelists suggestion to Mr ton they write n a story and Ind then thol u I piny IIA around hie Idea Ida this plan probably will 1 be he curried out Pemberton thinks that the chief role rolo In the Iho play pIny would exactly suit Beer bohm bohl Tree IMon l llo who wrote The Hu Human man Boy Hoy recently Increased his hl reputation with wih The American Pris Prisoner oner hns his n 1 new nw story stor lendy tor pub publication which ho bellet s to 10 bo hI thu tho best be t thing he has hos done This I i an another n nother other tulo tulu of ot Mr 11 country cOln try Dartmoor and It will wi be bo called cAled Tho Secret Woman It I Is III not gen sen generally cral known l on that before who was IM born In India took to authorship ho he was wa a clerk elerk In an on e olle Later on he thought he ht would to ho he honn henn nn actor but bil make a 1 go of ot It Then ho began writing short stories and found his hIl true profession slon As n I novel Ift of ot Is a 0 worthy worth successor to the late Inte H I D author of or whose whole me memorial morial In l cathedral he unveiled lost last year Although the almost perfect II I quarto of or Titus which has Just como come to light In Swollen will wi bi bl brought to this country countr before long Ions nobody doubts thAt It Il will wi bo he by ono of or tho wealthy American col collectors lectors It I Is a 1 pity said ono one of or the tho best known bibliographers yesterday but tho museum cant afford to buy It nt a high price It I Is expected that thal the tho whoso only blemish consists of or the Iho ab oh absence sence of or about ten words erased laRed or scraped from tho text In some lorne manner will wi bring anything between thousand and 10 thousand dollars lu ln lutil til tl tho 1694 15 t quarto of oC play was WI found last month In the of or ofa a 0 Swedish countrywoman no 10 single copy of ot this Hist edition hud born known to It I Is true truo that tho edition Is recorded In Arbors frn script of ot the Registers of or Stationers In London but hitherto most authorities ties have ha regarded thin as aM a 0 on en tty tl such Klch being not uncommon Tho fl literary relic it now In II tho hands of ot tho librarian of ot Lund university sity of or Sweden Already nn offer of or 1500 for It I has his been refused I 11 Temple Thurston oj oC the tho authoress of ot John Johl Chicote M 1 P 1 hns hA AIo written n a novel It Is called nl The h PIle Apple of at and Its Is subject Is tho thu possibility of ot a n col priest priesthood hood Meanwhile Mrs Mr Katherine Ceci Yell hC n a romance which will wi bo he published serially on this side of ot the tho water by tho t Ladys Realm This flus story Is II not nol yet Its Is authoress having discovered that tho sh hl originally hall had chosen l had been heen used already rIY enough she Rho hul h ox notly cote col ICU tho same experience with wih hl t Renders over who admired Mol novel noel tho Fisherman his new novel with n t lot of ot interest U I Is II and Is IA n 1 story of ut J provincial life book should whether Mr Pick needs the tha Inspiration tf br the east to produce ft 1 novel of or tho quality of or Said Sald It Ils Is rather suspected lIu that 1 ho hodoe hodoe doe for tor It Il WAR the opinion of or practically le Ml i the critics that hi Is second novel which was wal n story of or country Ir In WIS not to bo ho compared with wih his hie romance of n the ori oriental orientAl adventurer Mr r IB II spending tho winter In Switzerland lA CHURCH |
