Des chemins de randonnée littéraires dans la vieille Angleterre . ise pour son excellente compétence et skil-ful excellence montré dans le même thani que Theocritus ou Virgile. Très apaisant, sans doute, tout cela doit être à la Nouvelle poète, comme l'a appelé Spencer, mais pas très satisfaisant. Ces adordsn'ont pas beurre ses panais. Les jours ont été notoirement quand les critiques élogieuses et un consensus ovaorable opinion a eu leur résultat immédiat insubstantiel contrôles de l'éditeur. Spenserhad est venu à Londres pour son plus grand préférer, et l'éloge pour sa poésie, bien que comforting, n'était qu'une pierre pauvre à la place

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Literary by-paths in old England . ise for his excellent skill and skil-ful excellency showed forth in the same thanthey would to either Theocritus or Virgil. Very soothing, no doubt, all this must havebeen to the New Poet, as Spencer was called, but also not very satisfying. These fine wordsdid not butter his parsnips. The days were notyet when laudatory reviews and a consensus offavourable opinion had their immediate result insubstantial cheques from the publisher. Spenserhad come to London for his more prefer-ment, and praise for his poetry, however com-forting, was but a poor stone instead of bread.And yet his success as a singer may have beenresponsible for such advancement in life as wasto be his share. Sidney was the relative ofmany influential men in those days, and thefriend of many more, and he it was, we may besure, who secured the poet a place in the house-hold of Leicester House. That was a notable 21 LITERARY BY-PATHS river-side mansion in Spensers time. Once thehouse of Lord Paget, it was now the abode of. The Watek-gate of Essex House, London the Earl of Leicester, and known by his name.Years after it was by him bequeathed to hisson-in-law, the Earl of Essex, and as Essex 22 IN OLD ENGLAND House it sheltered Spenser when in London, six-teen years later, on the last quest for more pre-ferment. It has all vanished now, save thearch and steps at the bottom of Essex Streetwhich once served as the water-gate of themansion and saw the two gentle knights ofthe Prothalamion receive those two faireBrides, their Loves delight. There are prob-ably no other stones standing in all Londonwhich can claim to have figured as these arch-way pillars did in the life of Spenser. Perhaps those were not happy days he spentin Leicester House ; instinctively they recall thesorrows of the solitary Florentine and his Thou shalt have proof how savoureth of saltThe bread of others, and how hard a roadThe going down and up anothers stairs. It may have been otherwise; we cannot tel

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