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"Well, darling, I shall watch your manoeuvres with interest," said Flaxman, rising and gathering up his letters "and, longo intervallo, I shall humbly do my best to assist them. Are Catherine and Mary coming?" "Mary certainly and, I think, Catharine. The Fox-Wiltons of course, and that mad creature Hester, who goes to Paris in a few days and Alice Puttenham.
Webbe, it is true, was a pedant, but certainly not a scholar. Puttenham was a bad poet, a well-read man, and a courtier. Jonson's scholarship was thorough, but sweetened and ventilated by his activities as poet and dramatist. Bacon was a scholar, but even more a philosopher and a statesman.
Richard and Miss Puttenham will be here to-night. They have heard of Hester." In stupefaction they read the telegram, which had had been sent from Crewe: "Received news of Hester on arrival Paris yesterday. She has left M. Says she has gone to find your mother. Keep her. We arrive to-night Whinborough 7.10." "It is now seven," said Catharine, looking at her watch. "But where where is she?"
Moreover, Puttenham calls attention to the importance of the imagination in the composition of poetry as well as in war, engineering and politics. That the art of poetry is eminently teachable, Puttenham is entirely convinced, for he defines it as a skill appertaining to utterance, or as a certain order of rules prescribed by reason and gathered by experience.
The second half is devoted to classical meters. In his third book, Of Ornament, 165 pages, Puttenham gives an exhaustive and exhausting treatment of the figures of speech.
Sabin declared to me that having herself independently become aware of certain facts, while she was a servant in Lady Fox-Wilton's employment, that lady no doubt in order to ensure her silence took her abroad with herself and her young sister, Miss Alice, to a place in France she had some difficulty in pronouncing it sounded to me like Grenoble; that there Miss Puttenham became the mother of a child, which passed thenceforward as the child of Sir Ralph and Lady Fox-Wilton, and received the name of Hester.
The Cardinal became an enemy, and the railing tongue was turned against him. In a poem called Colin Cloute Skelton pointed out the evils of his day and at the same time pointed the finger of scorn at Wolsey. Colin Cloute, like Piers Ploughman, was meant to mean the simple good Englishman. *George Puttenham. "Thus I Colin Cloute, As I go about, And wandering as I walk, There the people talk.
Instead of endeavoring to discover what the end or purpose of poetry may be, Puttenham explains why certain forms of poetry were devised, or what may be the intention of certain poets in certain poems. The passage is worth quoting at length. The use of poetry, says Puttenham,
"Naughty, naughty child: She has been absolutely forbidden to see him, the whole Fox-Wilton family have made themselves into gaolers and spies and she just outwits them all! Poor Alice Puttenham hovers about her trying to distract and amuse her and has no more influence than a fly. And as for the Rector, it would be absurd, if it weren't enraging!
Alice Puttenham said, smiling, as she slipped her arm round the girl. "I captured her for the night, while Mrs. Elsmere went to town. I want you to know each other." "Elsmere's daughter!" thought Meynell, with a thrill, as he followed the two ladies through the open French window into the little dining-room, where the coffee was ready. And he could not take his eyes from the young face.
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