| Show A A LAST CENTURY VALENTINE mily present this little trifle to who h 0 she regards more afore than apty pty ty five years ago frilly took up duill aill pen and in dainty characters the dedication on the fly leaf friendship ship a offering in spite of ad grammar a glance at the tad fad d delicate writing with its quaint ashes and aristocratic angles Is L ish h to prove that emily ras as a young lady and that she really t at least a little more than she r emily her lilies and roses long withered along with the 1 flowers which bloomed in the j of king ling george IV to whose t excellent majesty the little cco eco bound volume is dedicated dedicated i one who she regards has balso with the rest were they ed one day faintly and one she regards T 9 or did emily die of a broken heart perhaps handwriting looks as if she have easily fallen a victim to I 1 I 1 such old fashioned malady and ne who she regards leave emily d and come to the states to seek 60 artune Corta certainly in some way ti ook pok which emily gave him as a ine in 1826 found its way to and passing sing from hand id d finally turned up on the stalls f little secondhand second hand bool shop in french quarter of old new or little book Is spotted with and yellow now its morocco is badly marked and torn but sake be of the unknown but dear emily as well as tor for its it shall be cherished hereafter iven such care as emily herself I 1 wih for the little trifle wh ch ps a told a tender secret to the led ed man who was its original a s offering Is a fat and little book of nearly pages handsomely and well bound as en by the fact that even today to day tees es a gay show with the gold ds and scrolls stamped on its it was one of that great crop auais which people of good con were wont rent to send to their a i on the recurrence of new and st valentines days do such things differently now i of a volume of pages with stilted verses and trae tra e written ritten by as many lords and nothing less than esquires admitted under any c icum s we send to our friends a gay tamped out of colored paper by hine blue and we pick up th s old 4 f of friendship s offering an aad d u as we look over the table of its ts poor emily s long forgotten affair Is not the only ancient y revived by a glance at the w ook buried burled in its table of con are re the names of twenty peo pee 60 0 in their day were famous as y lights but who have long AR bickered out into oblivion remembers mona eliza caro jid d the rest whose legendary a i romantic tales and f to a wreath of dead flowers emily and her sisters of the tears who remembers ber der 11 4 larton the quaker poet and I 1 of lamb least of all what I 1 i reader would follow him as it f a dozen pages or more he acwith s with slow and mournful steps i ed and lonely lord died led less ess t than an two we years before volume lume of Friend friendships shipp offer I 1 as printed and it is pretty full r ly found verses by his I 1 lord ord mr air washington irving sends verses by his late lordship ted by that gentleman from the of captain medwin and it I 1 eds a glance at the first line tf so we part forever to lecog b 4 e trie tn e byronic flavor vs t caro ine lamb iamb who had been ed from her husband the year and whose intrigues with lord were still familiar extracted r sr r album another set of verses b late lordship the perusal of WWW it t this date is likely to e of amusement they are so roii Ika WIK of the ne strained and grandino bet et hate ar I 1 the emphasis ard and of ital cs es and capital letters V ron implores lady caroline to s go and lady caroline alpar 1 44 joakes akes a malicious pleasure in pi b 66 4 t the verses by way of showing e poet was much in love with I 1 I 1 U As edill ill the vulture tears my heart 44 abis agony endure t ate 0 dearest as thou art artl 11 a y cura clara let us part is writing poetry of this kind and nd it if such poetry were writ 0 would read it Is one paper in friendship s which might well furnish a some one R au lo 10 Is anxious to dr r conan doyle of plagiarism creation of sherlock holmes er Is by the late richard lov deworth esq father of the known maria deworth ELge ec worth it d stage coach physiognomy d relates how hor one of the pas was able to tell the full life of all his fellows by simply ar such b ts of gesture man r JI J apparel as I 1 lae an e s nee guided ous detective in his amazing 7 it les sherlock at his best was iti ore observing or more aston tian an this casual coach traveled the same way more y years before him L letitia elizabeth landon pen name is more familiar r r writings was then la her early twenties and contributed halt half a dozen sets of verses in heroic style nor ras as friendships friendship s offering u with ith out names which are well rell known even now miss mitford has a sketch the lady of Beach grove full of old fash toned sentiment and ladylike mystery perhaps the best remembered things about miss mitford is the fact that when she was on ten years old she drew a prize of in a lottery and that after her father had sequan dered her money she supported him for years by the earnings of her pen robert southey then in nis prime has a long poem in the tat fat little book and miss jane porter whose scottish chiefs and of warsaw had already been printed is represent ed by a melane melancholy holy tale mrs opie mourns through a couple of epitaphs for friends and mod est T hood esq has an ode on autumn qu te like the simi ar efforts of oung young poets before and since his time T hood esq was not yet thirty years old when friendship a s offer ing vas nas printed he ile had recently left the engravers trade tor for literature and had hardly begun as yet to make a name tor for himself in his new line doubtless if the present editor could have foreseen that his modest contributor ras ft as to write the song oi 01 the shirt and the bridge of biehs and the poems which have made him famous T hood esq would have been given more prom prominence irence in the table of contents but the present editor is not the only man who has made such a mi mistake mitake take plentifully sprinkled in among the profess onal poets and literary men and women aie are my lords and ladies not ot for a moment does the present ed tor forget that he is ed t ng a volume of the gentry and nobility to wl alom oin his wort worl is dedicated the rt hon my T ord dillon has some bad verses on spain in the manner and my aly lord dorchester is g given several pages for a sad and silly apostrophe to an astrolko astrologer er fr friendships Frend ships s offering is Ys illustrato illus trat ed with three or tour four ancient steel representing such classic scenes as eneas and dido views of isfahan in persia and illustrations for the laughing horseman all in all emily s was a Na alent lentine lne well worth having since she wrote her quaint dedication on its flyleaf two english kings and one ore queen have died and the fourth monarch is now on the throne what valentine of the present year v ill be as well worth looking over in 1975 |
