New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-20
Obituary..
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.


American letters have again experienced .
notable loss Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne widely know.
as the author Of several remarkable works Of 6ctio.
died suddenly at Plymouth. N. H.. yesterday ruorpi,.
lie had been IN but feeble health for some time Mo-
and had undertaken journey in consequence n.
retired as well usual, and found dead in his ha
about o'clock in the morning by Mr. Franklin Picrce
III whose company he was journeying
7 Mr.. Hawthorne born In Salem, Mass on tho A..
of July. 1904 He graduated at Bowdon Collecs \.
1928 In the same class with George b. Cheo,er ana
Henry w. Longfellow. Franklin Pierce who wa. :
the preceding class was his intimate friend Uuo.
leaving college, without entering upon the stsdy a
either Of the learned professions be devoted LiueIf .
general literature publishing in 1887 his Twice To,a
Tales which at attracted the attention and adm
ration of tasteful and apprecatiye readers and sns,
became, to certain extent. popular book. second
series Of these tales was published in 1872 Mr. Hsv-
thornc in 1913 was appointed a weigher and gaagc,
in tie Boston Custom. House. from which place he wa.
by change in the Administration, removed In Is,I.
lie then joined the society at Brook Psru
where however be remained only for short time re-.
turning to Boston, where be resided until his marriage.
In lei3. He then retired to Concord. a town which
will always be famous not only in political but On,
literary annals. In lei6 Mr. Hawthorne was appointed
Surveyor OF the port Of Saem In 1919 having Quilted
Office during bis continuance in which lie pub.shsd
The Scarlet Letter" be removed to Lenox Mas.
where the House OF the Seven Gables" printed 4,
s5I. was written His next novel was the .'Biith...
dale Romance" printed in 1862. In which year be p.
turned to Concord. His life Of Franklin Pierce va,
published during the which resulted in Mr.
Perces election and the new President signHed Al.
gratitude and at the time gratifed friendly feel
ings long established. by giving Mr.. Hawthorne n.
place Of United States Consul at Liverpool said IN h
The most lucrative that time in the Presidents g
This Office he resigned in 1857. and. after peIiod o.
continental travel returned the United States spos
which his Marble Yawn," and work English trait
have been published. Besides the books already en.
merated Mr.. Hawthorne was the author Of True Sta
ries from History and Biography Os5D; "The wos.
der Book. for Boys and Girls Qe5Di THE Snow I'm.
age and other Twice Told Tales" (le52); "Tanscwod
Tales Qe5D. He also edited journal OF an African
Cruiser Qe45)
Sir. Hawthornes reputation a remarkable writer
OF fiction and agreeable essayist was by no means
confined to tho United States. His most important
works have been republished and widely read in In.
gland and of them. in the form of translation.
have been popular in Germany.
III Is utNIl AectssdIs u5 At 10 HteDpa
any critical estimate Of books 80 well known TO the
reading public as those of Mr. Hawthorne. If his ad-
mirers have not been so numerous those Of NAM
other authors. they have been and steady aud
is safe 20 say that his place in literature as great and
original writer is permanently settled. His books are
perhaps too often pitched in minor key IN crafty the
multitude II true that he is without rare vein
Of Lumor still fascinating. perhaps. because it 10
bosterous which strangely tempcrs the sombci
tone OF Lis pages but the prevailing spirit Of his writ
ins is somewhat melancholy and it occasionally rises
into the werdy tragical In Of his books this car
rcd to tragic PITCH which the reader even Of ordinary
sensitveness, finds almost painful. ne is Of thai
unusual art Ofener protested an cxceled in Of tend
lug TO strictly natural egen.s, the deepest Interest
Of the supernatural. He makes living men ard women
DO ghostly work; and he is consummate creator Of
pctuicsquenes of situation Some Of the in hs
Scarlet Letter" in the +" House of Seven Cables
and in the "Bthedalc Romance" have terror akin
to that with which in childhood we trembcd over the
pages of Mrs. Radcliffe; yet Mr.. Hawthorne worked
only with homely and almost unheroio materials and
tie most reparkabe of these works had historical
legendary assistance. In this gift he was not
like Mr. Charles Brochoen Browne. the earliest Amen
can novest'who had however. but slight tngsA
Mr. Hawthornes philosophical subtlety We have al
ready alluded to his humor and need not say that he
had also the quality OF pathos which is rarely separated
from the humorous Tleie are passages in the Scar
let Letter" especially Of womans love and suffering
end Of maternal tenderness. which not hardly sur
passed by anything in English literature but ere abso
lutcly unique in their character.
Thus, one by one the writer's who have created 6f
American literature original and selfsustaning
departing Ii is enough to say that they will be
remembered through their own productions but We
may ondy hope that they will always stand the fore
most pioneers OF literature yet to achieve sgnS
and important triumphs.