Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . CASTLE HOWARD FROM THE SOUTH-EAST appear many of Lord Carlisles letters. We get from that bookan insight into Selwyns character, for it is made up entirely ofletters to, and not from, Selwyn. His letters, and the papers atCastle Howard, have been edited by the Historical MSS. Com-missioners. At Castle Howard are also some curious letters fromSir J. Vanbrugh, treating more of matters political than architec-tural. Vanbrughs allusions to Sarah Duchess of Marlboroughare the very reverse of complimentary. The fifth Earl dabbled inpoetry ; and
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Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . CASTLE HOWARD FROM THE SOUTH-EAST appear many of Lord Carlisles letters. We get from that bookan insight into Selwyns character, for it is made up entirely ofletters to, and not from, Selwyn. His letters, and the papers atCastle Howard, have been edited by the Historical MSS. Com-missioners. At Castle Howard are also some curious letters fromSir J. Vanbrugh, treating more of matters political than architec-tural. Vanbrughs allusions to Sarah Duchess of Marlboroughare the very reverse of complimentary. The fifth Earl dabbled inpoetry ; and although his plays and long poems are unreadable, some lines by him addressed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, when thePresident wished to resign his post at the Academy in 1790, are. log I lO Castle Ibowarb excellent; they commence, Too wise for contest, and too meekfor strife. Both Lord and Lady Carlisle lived well into the lastcentury, he dying in 1825, only surviving the best woman inthe world a year. There are several portraits here by Reynolds of this Earl ; inone he appears seated with his beloved Selwyn, the latters favourite pug Ratonwith them. Selwynssomewhat coarse feat-ures appear, as mightbe expected, severaltimes at Castle How-ard ; here also is a copyof a pastel of that cele-brated wit by G. Hamil-ton. One of Selwynsstrongest and least ami-able traits was a morbidlove of seeing execu-tions, and looking atcorpses — whetherthose of his friends orof strangers ; the mostamiable trait was hisdevotion to children. Lord Carlisle when quite an old manwas painted in the Gallery at Castle Howard by Jackson :he wears his riband and Garter; a much changed man fromwhen he sat to Reynolds, but looking what he always was, atres grand seigneur. Both as a youth and