Village books

1901. S.
B.] Cassell's Magazine have offered a prize for setting the poem
to music, and I fell to thinking how it could be treated
musically, and so came to a right comprehension of it.
Although Butler, when editing Miss Savage's letters in 1901, could
not see the resemblance between Wordsworth's poem and Numbers XX.,
he at once saw a strong likeness between Lucy and Moore's heroine
whom he had been keeping in an accessible pigeon-hole of his memory
ever since his letter about Miss Frances Power Cobbe. He now sent
Lucy to keep her company and often spoke of the pair of them as
probably the two most disagreeable young women in English
literature--an opinion which he must have expressed to Miss Savage
and with which I have no doubt she agreed.
In the spring of 1888, on his return from photographing the statues
at Varallo, he found, to his disgust, that the authorities of the
British Museum had removed Frost's Lives of Eminent Christians from
its accustomed shelf in the Reading Room.


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