“PENDENNIS.”

Temuka Leader, Issue 1813, 8 November 1888, Page 4

“PENDENNIS.”

The editor of Lippineot’s Magazine begins, in the current number, to give the answers to 100 questions laid before his readers last spring. The first question is: “ Who was the original of Thackeray’s Warrington in “ Pendennis ” ? Several unsatisfactory answers are given by Lippincot’s readers, and then the editor settles the matter as follows: ’‘When ‘ Pendenuis ’ was published, ho sent a copy to one of his intimate friends, George Moreland Crawford, Paris correspondent of the London Daily Hews, who had nursed the novelist through the long and dangerous illness which had nearly interrupted ‘ Pendennis ’ for ever. The copy was accompanied by the following letter: ‘ You will find much to remind you of old talks and faces, of William John O’Coi.nel, Jack Sheehan, and Andrew Archoecue. There is something of you in Warrington, but he is not fib to hold the candle to you, for, taking you all round you are the most genuine fellow that ever strayed from a better world into this. You don’t smoke, and he is a confirmed smoker of tobacco. Bordeaux and port were your favorites at the ‘ Deanery ’ and the ‘ Garrick,’ and War. is always guzzling beer. But he has your honesty, and like you, could not posture if he tried. You have a strong affinity for the Irish. May you some day find an Irish girl to lead you to matrimony! There’s no such good wife as a daughter of Erin.”