. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . CAPTATN COOKS M0NUMKNT AT HAWAII 270 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK At eight oclock one morning, he wrote, we gathered in the parlor in the Red Horse Hotel at Stratford-on-Avon. Two pictures of Washington Irving,the chair in which the father of American literature sat, and the table en whichhe wrote, immortalizing his visit to that hotel, adorn the room. From thence wesailed forth to see the clean, quaint village of Stratford. It was built just to haveShakespeare born in. We have not heard that there was any one else ever b
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . CAPTATN COOKS M0NUMKNT AT HAWAII 270 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK At eight oclock one morning, he wrote, we gathered in the parlor in the Red Horse Hotel at Stratford-on-Avon. Two pictures of Washington Irving,the chair in which the father of American literature sat, and the table en whichhe wrote, immortalizing his visit to that hotel, adorn the room. From thence wesailed forth to see the clean, quaint village of Stratford. It was built just to haveShakespeare born in. We have not heard that there was any one else ever bornthere, before or since. If, by any strange possibility, it could be proved that thegreat dramatist was born anywhere else, it would ruin all the cab-drivers, guidesand hostelries of the TOWN HALL ORGAN, FIFTH LARGEST IN THL WORLD, MELBOLTRNK We went, of course, to the house where Shakespeare first appeared on thestage of life, and enacted the first act of his first play. A very plain house it the lark, which soars highest but builds its nest lowest, so with genius; ithas humble beginnings. I think ten thousand dollars would be a large appraise-ment for all the houses where the great poets were born. But all the worldcomes to this lowly dwelling. Walter Scott was glad to scratch his name on thewindow, and you may see it now. Charles Dickens, Edmund Kean, AlbertSmith. Mark Lemon and Tennyson, so very sparing of their autographs, have lefttheir signatures on the wall. There are the jambs of the old fire-place where thepoet warmed himself and combed wool, and began to think for all time. Here A GOSPEL TOUR OF THE GLOBE 271 is the chair in which he sat while presiding at the club, forming habits of drinkwhich killed him at the last, his own life ending in a traged
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