The life and letters of Washington Irving . e Latin verses, of which the following gave the name and countryof the author:— Janua cui patria est ; nomen cui BartolomseusColumbus de Terrarubra opus adidit istud. By this Latin version of his family name, he has always been knownin English literature. If we change it, we ought to go back to the originalItalian, Cristoforo Colombo. Long usage, however, like long occupancy,constitutes a kind of right that cannot be disturbed without greatinconvenience. Yours, my dear sir, very truly, Washington Irving. CHAPTER XV. Letter to Mrs. Storrow.—Coup d Eta
The life and letters of Washington Irving . e Latin verses, of which the following gave the name and countryof the author:— Janua cui patria est ; nomen cui BartolomseusColumbus de Terrarubra opus adidit istud. By this Latin version of his family name, he has always been knownin English literature. If we change it, we ought to go back to the originalItalian, Cristoforo Colombo. Long usage, however, like long occupancy,constitutes a kind of right that cannot be disturbed without greatinconvenience. Yours, my dear sir, very truly, Washington Irving. CHAPTER XV. Letter to Mrs. Storrow.—Coup d Etat of Louis Napoleon.—Kossuth.—Letter to Gouverneur Kenible.— The Cooper Commemoration.—BryantsAllusion to the Coolness between Cooper and Irving.— What the LatterSaid about It.—A Prospectus for a Course of Lectures sent to Him.—Letter Thereupon. — Letters from Saratoga. — Anecdotes of CharlesAugustus Davis.— The Irving Literary Union.—A Breakfast withSontag.—Letter to Miss Hamilton.—Letter to George P. HE following letter is addressed toMrs. Storrow, at Paris, just afterthe world had been astounded bythe coup d etat of Louis York, in addition, had beenfilled with excitement by the arrivalof the graceful and eloquent Hun-garian patriot, Kossuth. SUNNYSIDE, Jan. 13, 1852. My Dear Sarah :— We have all been quite electrifiedby the coup d dtat of our friend LouisNapoleon. It is one of the most com-plete things of the kind I have everheard or read of, and quite uncle could not have done the thing better in his most vigorous would have thought, when his gracious Majesty took his disjeunewith us at TiUietudlem, he had so much in him ? You are in a fair wayof becoming experienced in warfare, and seasoned to alarms, by yourresidence in a capital where every political change is a military present you are likely to have a great deal of the pomp and parade ofarms, without any more of the ragamufifin w
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