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Two Lovers of Liteeature and Art. Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke TWO LOVERS OF LITEEATURE AND ART. CHARLES AND MARY COWDEN CLARKE. BY MRS. JAMES T. FIELDS. |HARLES and Mary Cowden nent by his distinguished musical talent, and Clarke belong among the ap- although they had not much money, they preciators and disseminators were comfortable and happy. " Out of the of the best things in litera­ limited means of a young professor," Mrs. ture. They may not be placed Cowden Clarke wrote in later years, "my among the great originators, mother contrived to make for her husband but they were born with reverent souls and and children a neat and even elegant home, keen artistic understanding. Perhaps a true also a superior circle of friends, and many appreciation of contemporary genius, and a advantages only to be obtained through the reverence which makes the lesser things of influence of a wife and mother. ... No the world subservient to the higher, are expense was spared in the education of the almost as valuable as creative power itself. children; both father and mother agreed in Surely it is faith in the existence of such this." natures which serves to quicken the artist Victoria Novello enjoyed the exceptional to his work. Emerson used to say that his privilege of going to Miss Mary Lamb to own particular audience was a very small one, repeat her Latin grammar, and to listen to but it was of a quality to be trusted to dis­ Miss Lamb's reading of poetry. " The echo seminate his thought among thousands whom of that gentle voice," she wrote, "vibrates he could not himself reach. true and unbroken in the heart where the Mary Victoria Novello was one of the low-breathed sound first awoke response." figures who may justly be called a flower of The son of William Hazlitt also came to literature and art. She was not a great Mary Lamb on a like errand. He was a writer, she was not a great musician, she lively, rapid boy, and was once allowed to was not a great actor; but her character recite his grammar while Victoria waited. was so imbued with the spirit of art that her His brilliant method fired her ambition, and life was drawn from these fountains. This when her turn came, she began to scour was her charm. There was no sentimental- through her verbs in the same fashion. ism in her attitude. She was ready for hard "What are you about, little Vicky?" Miss work, and early accustomed herself to labor Lamb asked, laughing. " I see we are trying joyfully: first, that she might help to support to be as quick as William; but let us each those who were dear to her, and, second, that keep to our own natural ways, and then we whatever she did at all might be done well shall be sure to do our best." and bear the artist stamp. When we recall " The way in which books were made high the natural joyousness of her nature, we must treats in the Novello family," continued Mrs. recall also how her gaiety was tempered by Clarke, "furnishes a pleasant and salutary ardent love for her parents and her husband, example for other young fathers and mothers and how for sixteen years she labored con­ rearing a family on slender pecuniary re­ tinually upon what must often have become sources. Often, when late overnight profes­ weary work enough—that monument to in­ sional avocations made early rising an impos­ dustry, "The Complete Concordance to sibility to Vincent Novello, he would have Shakspere." his young ones on the bed while he ate the She was born in the month of June, 1809, breakfast his wife brought him, and showed and was the eldest of eleven children. Her them some delightful volume he had pur­ home in London was the same to which her chased as a present for them." Nor was the Italian grandfather came with his English theater omitted as a grand source of educa­ wife years before. Vincent Novello, her tion as well as pleasure. Mrs. Cowden Clarke father, was not long in making himself promi- remembered well the glorious occasions when 122 PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED TWO LOVERS OF LITERATURE AND ART, 123 Mr. Novello took his little girl to the play: and again: once when she came riding home, doubtless I have long time been my fancy feeding half asleep, on her father's shoulder, and With hopes that you one day would think the once, a night of " joyful surprise, when, com­ reading ing home after a long day's school-teaching, Of my rough verses not an hour misspent. he bade his little daughter get Shakspere's Cowden Clarke was gifted with a calm play of ' Much Ado about Nothing,' and read nature and one fitted to bear with gentle­ him the opening scenes while he ate his din­ ness the buffeting fortunes of a long life. ner (which she had prepared, laying the cloth He modestly says of himself and of his wife: for papa, as mama was up-stairs with the " To the fact of our having had preeminently new baby); and then, as a reward for his good and enlightened parents is perhaps daughter's good housewifery, telling her to chiefly attributable the privileges we have put on her bonnet, and he would take her to enjoyed. Both John Clarke, the school­ Covent Garden Theater to see Charles master, and Vincent Novello, the musician, Kemble play Benedick." with their admirable wives, liberal-minded Surely a child educated by continual op­ and intelligent beyond most of their time portunities to enjoy music, books, and the and calling, delighted in the society of clever best acting may well have been different people, and cultivated those relations for from others; yet when we reflect that such their children." His earliest school-days pleasures are within the reach of many who were guided and stimulated in the right do not feed upon them and many who are not direction, not only with regard to reading nourished from these fountains, it is quite and study, but in the choice of congenial worth while to pause and see how rich this companions. " John Keats," he writes," was child became, though poor in this world's one of the little fellows who had not wholly goods, and how wholesomely her nature emerged from the child's costume upon being developed itself. placed under my father's care. ... He From the first the eldest child was accus­ once told me, smiling, that one of his guar­ tomed to bear her share of the family bur­ dians, being informed what books I lent him to dens. She was hardly done with her own read, declared if he had fifty children he would studies when she took a place as governess, not send them to that school." These books, which she held until her parents decided it appeared, were Burnet's " History of His that the care of five children was too great Own Time " and Leigh Hunt's " Examiner." for her to bear at her still tender age. In It is easy to see that the two boys " took considering her character one is reminded to each other " in spite of some disparity of of what our American wit, Tom Appleton, age, and Cowden Clarke's quick discernment once said after some months of travel in the of the inspired child showed that his own company of an interesting Frenchwoman— nature was already unfolding a power of dis­ that she was the only person he had ever crimination unusual in the ordinary school­ heard of who could live upon sunsets. There boy. His friendship with Keats was not was something like this in the whole Novello interrupted when, a few years later, both family; a plain house, plain food, and labo­ went to London to pursue their several rious days were no pain to them if they could callings. " He was not long," writes Cowden take care of one another and enjoy true plea­ Clarke, "in discovering my abode." Mr. sures in one another's society. Alsager, it seems, lent them a copy of Charles Cowden Clarke was a teacher by Homer, and they were soon at work. nature, one of the most enviable endowments Clarke first met Leigh Hunt at an evening a human creature can receive. He was his party, and was greatly attracted to him. father's chief assistant in the school at En­ Shortly after came the news that he had field from a very early age, and there he been thrown into Horsemonger Lane Jail remained until he came up to London to for a libel on the prince regent. Charles's follow his desire for a literary life. father gave him permission to visit the prison Keats's love for Cowden Clarke from the and carry Leigh Hunt, weekly, fresh flowers, time they found each other out in the school- fruit, and vegetables from the Enfield garden. house at Enfield will keep the name and During these visits he made the acquain­ memory of the poet's friend green so long tance of Thomas Moore and other interest­ as poetry endures. Charles was already a* ing men, and subsequently, probably through confirmed reader of good books. It was to Leigh Hunt, of Vincent Novello. "This him Keats wrote: was the opening of the proudest and happiest You first taught me all the sweets of song; period of my existence," he once wrote. PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 124 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
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