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For some time he only felt fatigued; afterwards he became nervous; but he found compensation in the society of his newly made friends, and in the increasing marks of recognition he was now meeting everywhere. He soon gave up hotel life, and took lodgings in St. John's Wood, where he had many acquaintances, and from there he wrote to me: "I have seen Palgrave, Macmillan, Rossetti, Woolner, and Mr.
Woolner remembered that old Madame Mohl, having read my husband's works, had expressed a wish to renew the acquaintance of former days, and would be glad to see us both at tea-time any day that might suit us. A week later we called upon the wonderfully preserved old lady, who was delighted to receive a visit from a rising celebrity though a host of celebrities had passed through her drawing-room.
Calderon in his studio, painting two beautiful decorative pictures; there was a garland of flowers in one of them the freshness of their coloring was admirable. We missed Mr. Woolner, who was out, and thence went to Mr. Macmillan's place of business, and with him to Knapdale, where we dined and stayed all night. As soon as dessert had been put on the table, Mrs.
Gradually, by doing this, you would accumulate material of real importance; much better than novels or stories, and more valuable than the passionate utterances of personal emotion. Did I ever show you the record I privately printed of an evening passed by me at Woolner, the sculptor's, when Gladstone met Tennyson for the first time?
Woolner, who had kept up for some months a brisk correspondence in behalf of Mr. Hamerton's candidature, now heard that matters were not going so smoothly as he had expected. He was told that the income would not come up to the sum stated at first; that the formation of an art museum was contemplated, in which case the duties of forming and keeping it would devolve upon the professor.
Macaulay, you are fat." He at all times sat and stood straight, full, and square; and in this respect Woolner, in the fine statue at Cambridge, has missed what was undoubtedly the most marked fact in his personal appearance. He dressed badly, but not cheaply. His clothes, though ill put on, were good, and his wardrobe was always enormously overstocked.
All the art of a thousand or ten thousand years had brought England to stuff which Palgrave and Woolner brayed in their mortars; derided, tore in tatters, growled at, and howled at, and treated in terms beyond literary usage. Whistler had not yet made his appearance in London, but the others did quite as well. What result could a student reach from it?
The walks, the bridges, the quadrangles, the historic college buildings, all conspired to make the place a delight and a fascination. The library of Trinity College, with its rows of busts by Roubiliac and Woolner, is a truly noble hall.
Woolner the sculptor of whom I was not particularly fond Horace Wigan the actor, and his father, the Burtons, who were much attached to him Burton dedicated one volume of his 'Arabian Nights' to him Sir William Crookes, Mr. Justin Macarthy and his talented son, and many others.
Not for the purpose of introduction, however, for he was not acquainted with Tennyson. Soon Mr. J returned, and said that he had found the Poet Laureate, and, going into the saloon of the old masters, we saw him there, in company with Mr. Woolner, whose bust of him is now in the Exhibition.
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