Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — Charles Lamb and Hastings. [ARTICLE]

Charles Lamb and Hastings.

Hastings, which is to indulge in a pageant of heroes* was«an object of particular aversion to Charles Lamb. “I love town or country,” he wrote, “but this detestable Cinque Port is neither. If 4t were what it was in its primitive shape, and what it ought to have remained, a fair, honest fishing town and no more, it were something —with a few straggling fishermen’s huts scattered about, artless as its cliffs, and with their materials filched from them —it were something. I could abide to dwell with Meshech; to associate with fisher swain and smugglers. There are, or I dream there are, many of this latter occupation here, Their faces become the. place. I like the smuggler. He Is the Only honest thief. He robs nothing but the- revenue, an abstraction I never greatly cared about” —London Chronicle.