. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. c., that he desired);and when completed and placed on the tableit had very much the appearance of the old-fashioned school teachers desks found inour schools some forty or fifty years was upon this rude structure that hisfamous Science of English Verse was com-posed in six weeks. This desk, after hisdeparture, I found pretty well bespatteredwith a blue ink which he constantly used. Lanier was very systematic in his work,breakfasting about 8:30 A. M., shortl
. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. c., that he desired);and when completed and placed on the tableit had very much the appearance of the old-fashioned school teachers desks found inour schools some forty or fifty years was upon this rude structure that hisfamous Science of English Verse was com-posed in six weeks. This desk, after hisdeparture, I found pretty well bespatteredwith a blue ink which he constantly used. Lanier was very systematic in his work,breakfasting about 8:30 A. M., shortlythereafter retiring to his apartment to work;appearing for dinner, and then resuming hiswriting until 4 P. M., when he would ap-pear in riding costume (a pair of white cor-duroy trousers I remember as a conspicuouscomponent). His rides were upon the back of a fa-mous black Canadian pony that we owned,and which carried him for miles in everydirection, radiating from the Springs. Uponhis return he would relate to his friend, theartist, John R. Tait,^ what he had seen, -? John Robinson Tait, landscape painter, author, PAGE 20. AT ROCKINGHAM SPRINGS describing the many beautiful scenes he hadobserved in the landscape. The Fischer piano now at the Springswas selected by Mr. Lanier in Baltimore;and many were the evenings that he wouldregale the assembled company with hisBrohm flute, while his wife accompaniedhim on the piano. These treats were will-ingly granted whenever he was waited uponby a delegation of ladies or gentlemen; butthe most inspiring of all his music was pro-duced after 11 P. M., when everything wasquiet and every one supposedly asleep. Itwas then that he came out upon the upperporch of his cottage with his flute, and re-mained there an hour or more can compare such an hour to a descriptionof Rubensteins piano playing. This fluteplaying was done for the benefit of his and critic, was born in Cincinnati in 1834; he diedJuly 29, 1909. Several of his paint
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