It was a curious and remarkable29 book; and from the many fond associations connected with it, I should like to immortalize it, if I could.
As I now linger over the volume, to and fro turning the pages so dear to my boyhood,—the very pages which, years and years ago, my father turned over amid the very scenes that are here described; what a soft, pleasing sadness steals over me, and how I melt into the past and forgotten!
Dear book! I will sell my Shakespeare, and even sacrifice my old quarto Hogarth, before I will part with you. Yes, I will go to the hammer myself, ere I send you to be knocked down in the auctioneer's shambles31. I will, my beloved,—old family relic32 that you are;—till you drop leaf from leaf, and letter from letter, you shall have a snug33 shelf somewhere, though I have no bench for myself.
In size, it is what the booksellers call an 18mo; it is bound in green morocco, which from my earliest recollection has been spotted34 and tarnished35 with time; the corners are marked with triangular36 patches of red, like little cocked hats; and some unknown Goth has inflicted37 an incurable38 wound upon the back. There is no lettering outside; so that he who lounges past my humble39 shelves, seldom dreams of opening the anonymous40 little book in green. There it stands; day after day, week after week, year after year; and no one but myself regards it. But I make up for all neglects, with my own abounding love for it.
But let us open the volume.
What are these scrawls41 in the fly-leaves? what incorrigible42 pupil of a writing-master has been here? what crayon sketcher43 of wild animals and falling air-castles? Ah, no!—these are all part and parcel of the precious book, which go to make up the sum of its treasure to me.
Some of the scrawls are my own; and as poets do with their juvenile44 sonnets45, I might write under this horse, "Drawn46 at the age of three years," and under this autograph, "Executed at the age of eight."
Others are the handiwork of my brothers, and sisters, and cousins; and the hands that sketched47 some of them are now moldered away.
But what does this anchor here? this ship? and this sea-ditty of Dibdin's? The book must have fallen into the hands of some tarry captain of a forecastle. No: that anchor, ship, and Dibdin's ditty are mine; this hand drew them; and on this very voyage to Liverpool. But not so fast; I did not mean to tell that yet.
Full in the midst of these pencil scrawlings, completely surrounded indeed, stands in indelible, though faded ink, and in my father's hand-writing, the following:—
WALTER REDBURN.
Riddough's Royal Hotel, Liverpool, March 20th, 1808.
Turning over that leaf, I come upon some half-effaced miscellaneous memoranda48 in pencil, characteristic of a methodical mind, and therefore indubitably my father's, which he must have made at various times during his stay in Liverpool. These are full of a strange, subdued49, old, midsummer interest to me: and though, from the numerous effacements, it is much like cross-reading to make them out; yet, I must here copy a few at random:—
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Guide-Book 3 6
Dinner at the Star and Garter 10
Trip to Preston (distance 31 m.) 2 6 3
Thompson's Seasons 5
Library 1
Boat on the river 6
Port wine and cigar 4
And on the opposite page, I can just decipher the following:
Dine with Mr. Roscoe on Monday.
Call upon Mr. Morille same day.
Leave card at Colonel Digby's on Tuesday.
Present letter at Miss L——'s on Tuesday.
Get my draft on London cashed.
Write home by the Princess.
Letter bag at Sampson and Wilt's.
Turning over the next leaf, I unfold a map, which in the midst of the British Arms, in one corner displays in sturdy text, that this is "A Plan of the Town of Liverpool." But there seems little plan in the confined and crooked54 looking marks for the streets, and the docks irregularly scattered55 along the bank of the Mersey, which flows along, a peaceful stream of shaded line engraving56.
On the northeast corner of the map, lies a level Sahara of yellowish white: a desert, which still bears marks of my zeal57 in endeavoring to populate it with all manner of uncouth58 monsters in crayons. The space designated by that spot is now, doubtless, completely built up in Liverpool.
Traced with a pen, I discover a number of dotted lines, radiating in all directions from the foot of Lord-street, where stands marked "Riddough's Hotel," the house my father stopped at.
These marks delineate his various excursions in the town; and I follow the lines on, through street and lane; and across broad squares; and penetrate59 with them into the narrowest courts.
By these marks, I perceive that my father forgot not his religion in a foreign land; but attended St. John's Church near the Hay-market, and other places of public worship: I see that he visited the News Room in Duke-street, the Lyceum in Bold-street, and the Theater Royal; and that he called to pay his respects to the eminent60 Mr. Roscoe, the historian, poet, and banker.
Reverentially folding this map, I pass a plate of the Town Hall, and come upon the Title Page, which, in the middle, is ornamented61 with a piece of landscape, representing a loosely clad lady in sandals, pensively63 seated upon a bleak64 rock on the sea shore, supporting her head with one hand, and with the other, exhibiting to the stranger an oval sort of salver, bearing the figure of a strange bird, with this motto elastically65 stretched for a border—"Deus nobis haec otia fecit."
The bird forms part of the city arms, and is an imaginary representation of a now extinct fowl66, called the "Liver," said to have inhabited a "pool," which antiquarians assert once covered a good part of the ground where Liverpool now stands; and from that bird, and this pool, Liverpool derives67 its name.
At a distance from the pensive62 lady in sandals, is a ship under full sail; and on the beach is the figure of a small man, vainly essaying to roll over a huge bale of goods.
Equally divided at the top and bottom of this design, is the following title complete; but I fear the printer will not be able to give a facsimile:—
The Picture
of Liverpool:
or, Stranger's Guide
and Gentleman's Pocket Companion
FOR THE TOWN.
Embellished
With Engravings
By the Most Accomplished68 and Eminent Artists.
Liverpool:
Printed in Swift's Court,
And sold by Woodward and Alderson, 56 Castle St. 1803.
A brief and reverential preface, as if the writer were all the time bowing, informs the reader of the flattering reception accorded to previous editions of the work; and quotes "testimonies69 of respect which had lately appeared in various quarters —the British Critic, Review, and the seventh volume of the Beauties of England and Wales"—and concludes by expressing the hope, that this new, revised, and illustrated71 edition might "render it less unworthy of the public notice, and less unworthy also of the subject it is intended to illustrate70."
A very nice, dapper, and respectful little preface, the time and place of writing which is solemnly recorded at the end-Hope Place, 1st Sept. 1803.
But how much fuller my satisfaction, as I fondly linger over this circumstantial paragraph, if the writer had recorded the precise hour of the day, and by what timepiece; and if he had but mentioned his age, occupation, and name.
But all is now lost; I know not who he was; and this estimable author must needs share the oblivious72 fate of all literary incognitos73.
He must have possessed74 the grandest and most elevated ideas of true fame, since he scorned to be perpetuated75 by a solitary76 initial. Could I find him out now, sleeping neglected in some churchyard, I would buy him a headstone, and record upon it naught77 but his title-page, deeming that his noblest epitaph.
After the preface, the book opens with an extract from a prologue78 written by the excellent Dr. Aiken, the brother of Mrs. Barbauld, upon the opening of the Theater Royal, Liverpool, in 1772:—
Pours his full tribute to the circling main,
A band of fishers chose their humble seat;
They braved the billows for precarious82 food:
Their straggling huts were ranged along the shore,
Their nets and little boats their only store."
Indeed, throughout, the work abounds83 with quaint poetical84 quotations85, and old-fashioned classical allusions87 to the Aeneid and Falconer's Shipwreck88.
And the anonymous author must have been not only a scholar and a gentleman, but a man of gentle disinterestedness89, combined with true city patriotism90; for in his "Survey of the Town" are nine thickly printed pages of a neglected poem by a neglected Liverpool poet.
By way of apologizing for what might seem an obtrusion91 upon the public of so long an episode, he courteously92 and feelingly introduces it by saying, that "the poem has now for several years been scarce, and is at present but little known; and hence a very small portion of it will no doubt be highly acceptable to the cultivated reader; especially as this noble epic93 is written with great felicity of expression and the sweetest delicacy94 of feeling."
Once, but once only, an uncharitable thought crossed my mind, that the author of the Guide-Book might have been the author of the epic. But that was years ago; and I have never since permitted so uncharitable a reflection to insinuate95 itself into my mind.
This epic, from the specimen96 before me, is composed in the old stately style, and rolls along commanding as a coach and four. It sings of Liverpool and the Mersey; its docks, and ships, and warehouses97, and bales, and anchors; and after descanting upon the abject98 times, when "his noble waves, inglorious, Mersey rolled," the poet breaks forth99 like all Parnassus with:—
From northern climes to India's distant bounds—
Where'er his shores the broad Atlantic waves;
Where'er the Baltic rolls his wintry waves;
Where'er the honored flood extends his tide,
That clasps Sicilia like a favored bride.
Greenland for her its bulky whale resigns,
In every clime her prosperous fleets are known,
She makes the wealth of every clime her own."
"And here R*s*o*, with genius all his own,
New tracks explores, and all before unknown?"
Indeed, both the anonymous author of the Guide-Book, and the gifted bard104 of the Mersey, seem to have nourished the warmest appreciation105 of the fact, that to their beloved town Roscoe imparted a reputation which gracefully106 embellished its notoriety as a mere107 place of commerce. He is called the modern Guicciardini of the modern Florence, and his histories, translations, and Italian Lives, are spoken of with classical admiration108.
The first chapter begins in a methodical, business-like way, by informing the impatient reader of the precise latitude109 and longitude110 of Liverpool; so that, at the outset, there may be no misunderstanding on that head. It then goes on to give an account of the history and antiquities of the town, beginning with a record in the Doomsday-Book of William the Conqueror111.
Here, it must be sincerely confessed, however, that notwithstanding his numerous other merits, my favorite author betrays a want of the uttermost antiquarian and penetrating112 spirit, which would have scorned to stop in its researches at the reign3 of the Norman monarch113, but would have pushed on resolutely114 through the dark ages, up to Moses, the man of Uz, and Adam; and finally established the fact beyond a doubt, that the soil of Liverpool was created with the creation.
But, perhaps, one of the most curious passages in the chapter of antiquarian research, is the pious115 author's moralizing reflections upon an interesting fact he records: to wit, that in a.d. 1571, the inhabitants sent a memorial to Queen Elizabeth, praying relief under a subsidy116, wherein they style themselves "her majesty's poor decayed town of Liverpool."
As I now fix my gaze upon this faded and dilapidated old guide-book, bearing every token of the ravages117 of near half a century, and read how this piece of antiquity118 enlarges like a modern upon previous antiquities, I am forcibly reminded that the world is indeed growing old. And when I turn to the second chapter, "On the increase of the town, and number of inhabitants," and then skim over page after page throughout the volume, all filled with allusions to the immense grandeur119 of a place, which, since then, has more than quadrupled in population, opulence120, and splendor121, and whose present inhabitants must look back upon the period here spoken of with a swelling122 feeling of immeasurable superiority and pride, I am filled with a comical sadness at the vanity of all human exaltation. For the cope-stone of to-day is the corner-stone of tomorrow; and as St. Peter's church was built in great part of the ruins of old Rome, so in all our erections, however imposing123, we but form quarries124 and supply ignoble125 materials for the grander domes126 of posterity127.
And even as this old guide-book boasts of the, to us, insignificant128 Liverpool of fifty years ago, the New York guidebooks are now vaunting of the magnitude of a town, whose future inhabitants, multitudinous as the pebbles129 on the beach, and girdled in with high walls and towers, flanking endless avenues of opulence and taste, will regard all our Broadways and Bowerys as but the paltry130 nucleus131 to their Nineveh. From far up the Hudson, beyond Harlem River, where the young saplings are now growing, that will overarch their lordly mansions132 with broad boughs133, centuries old; they may send forth explorers to penetrate into the then obscure and smoky alleys134 of the Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth-street; and going still farther south, may exhume135 the present Doric Custom-house, and quote it as a proof that their high and mighty136 metropolis enjoyed a Hellenic antiquity.
As I am extremely loth to omit giving a specimen of the dignified137 style of this "Picture of Liverpool," so different from the brief, pert, and unclerkly hand-books to Niagara and Buffalo138 of the present day, I shall now insert the chapter of antiquarian researches; especially as it is entertaining in itself, and affords much valuable, and perhaps rare information, which the reader may need, concerning the famous town, to which I made my first voyage. And I think that with regard to a matter, concerning which I myself am wholly ignorant, it is far better to quote my old friend verbatim, than to mince139 his substantial baron-of-beef of information into a flimsy ragout of my own; and so, pass it off as original. Yes, I will render unto my honored guide-book its due.
But how can the printer's art so dim and mellow140 down the pages into a soft sunset yellow; and to the reader's eye, shed over the type all the pleasant associations which the original carries to me!
No! by my father's sacred memory, and all sacred privacies of fond family reminiscences, I will not! I will not quote thee, old Morocco, before the cold face of the marble-hearted world; for your antiquities would only be skipped and dishonored by shallow-minded readers; and for me, I should be charged with swelling out my volume by plagiarizing141 from a guide-book-the most vulgar and ignominious142 of thefts!
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