The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-06-02
NArHA MEL HAWTHORNE.

ne announcement OF the death OF
the great American Novelist and Es.
sayist, Nathunlef Hawthorne, will be
every where received with surprise
and profound regret There had been
no announcement Of his illness. and
we are left to conclude that his s:ckncss
was of short duration.
Mr.. Hawthorne was born in 1904 at
Salem, Massachusetts, place that will
ever be associated with his name and
works. he was educated at Bowdo.n
College, where he graduated in 1925
Longteilow being one of his class
mates and, if we mistake not. DR. Oil
yer Wendell Holmes, and n P Willis
Hawthorne's first work was an anony-
nous romance, published in 1924
work that lie has never claimed nor
has it ever been included in any edi-
tion Of his works. In 1897 he pub
lishcd q collection OF Twice Told
Tales" SO called because they had
previously been published in various
periodicals to which he was contrib.
utor In l843. he removed to Con.
cord, residing for q time in an old
manse or parsonage, and in 1915 gave
TO the world u delightful volume which
was indebted TO the parsonage for its
title, Moses from an Old Manse."
The same year he was appointed Sur
veyor in the Custom House at Salem,
his native town, and held the Office
three years. Iu 1850 his famous
"Scarlel Letter, which at once raised
him TO the first rank among our wri-
ters Of fiction, was published, and ere.
ated a very profound impression in
this country and Europe. In 1851 ap-
peared The House Of the Seven GA
bles," scarcely less fascinating than
tn, previous volume. In 1852 he pub
lished the BlithedaIe Romance, 4"
which has never been esteemed as
highly us his other works No other
works OF fiction appeared from his pen
unless fugitive tales. till 1859. when
the novel entitled Transformation, ~
was made public. 1t is the most fin,
ished and the rIpest production of this
great writer, though not as popular a.
the Scarlet Letter. or the {" House OF
the Seven Gables"
In 1853 Mr.. Hawthorne was ap
pointed Consul to Liverpool by Presi.
dent Pierce-an office which he held
for five years Since his return to this
country. Mr. Hawthorne has published
his sketches Of English life and peo-
pie; II work that will remain for all
time as a faithful limning of present
English society by an acute and toler-
able impartial observer.
HAWTHORNE. morp than any cotem-
porary author, had the power of ava
kcnirg and sustaining intense and
pa nful interest in his readers Those
who recall the death of Judge Pyn.
cheon, sitting in his own chair. the
moonlight streaming into the ghost
room aud weird shadows of the past
floating in and out, will remember
how deep, lasting and fascinating was
the spell thrown around them, and
how imro sibe it WIS to remove their
eyes from the dead figure of the poor
old gentleman, TO whom earthly hon
nrs and riches and comforts, were van
ity and dust, The style of Mr. Haw-
thorne is fresh, transparent, often
terse, and always pure. No writer OF
our time used the language more ac-
curatcly and with greater force and
beauty. II for no other merit, Haw.
thorncs writing may be proftably
studied as models OF English undefled
In his death, literature loses one Of its
greatest ornaments, and our country
one of her finest Intellects.-Cin Com.