New-York tribune., 1872-09-02
BOSTON.
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BoSroN, Aug. 29.-Roberts Brothels ale sOon
% nuh,ish book which is worthy Of more than coion
-. ,os,,rob "a IL "a the blossom Of late Au-
,p and had for its soil thought and readhg anu
.xnerlenoe of long and bameless me- lreier :"
" concord Days." by A. Bronson A'co.I IL 0
% aDiarvs OF six months Of living, speeuA'ine anu ~
.neuberine-a unique and, so to say most ln'ina'o
l and scarcely TO be judged by the ordinary rules ~
80 making You are with the author IN his quiet
80 a hundred and fifty years old-a house opening
az the road by which the British regulars retrea'eu H
,he,r memorable repulse at the Old North bluso' o
Concord militia following fast upon their heels Miuo
lawn in front gives stately air % TINS mousse "oh III
,os Won behind its overshadOwing elms TheSe ems oI
hundred years standing more are MI Aco1 priue'
~ ont bouch from them were sacriege and they are
Lefty mat while they shelter the highest peak OF the
oof they vet let the blessed sunlight IN al every VII"
aow Hawthornes last residence, Wayslde' Is the
next estate on the east and not far away lives nesoH
and the rest of those wonderful neighbors You so III
and sit down with the scholar in his study among 'he
tio,alv hooks and pictures" The room is shrine-tO
az Won into il is opening for the doors OF temple
Emerson sat here last uightit was he VINO eit 'ha'
book lying open upon the table. hawthorne was here
in his timcOnly twice, though, MI Alcott says neA'
door neighbors as they were Perhaps his ghos'' less
al
and is listening while you talk. 1t were curious specu-
ton 10 guess how Hawthorne looks through the clearer
hight of the upper air that strange human nature
whose dark mysteries so tempted him. ana Whlcn he'
while stunning his kind seemed TO discern by some sn
gular intuition. Here Thoreau used TO come oringhE
newlv-found flowers and unexpected minerals ana un-
named insects and quaint sayings, fresher STILL Here
YOU sit and think again. with the quiet gentle
huosopber the thoughts Of his long fea life in which
he has not been impatient TO take the days as they
pass and eternity vouchsaed for completing
ones task" Shadows OF the world appear IN lhe
clear glass Of his memory, the Lady OF Shaott saw
them in her magic mirror. August shapes pass before
you and he points them out with reverence ana with
comprehension. He devOtes nearly twenty pages to
Emerson, OF whom he says:
81 know Of hut subtraction from the pleasure the
reading of his books-shal say also MS
II be feared any the least intrusion Of himself were an
ohense offered TO sehrespect the courtesy due 70 lht
course and authorship thus deprivng his page ms COM
pauv attractions the great masters OF ooth knew now
TO oinsnuate into their and talk without oyerstep
ping the bounds of social literary decorun What IS
more delightful than personal magnetism Ils e the
10 give the largest of satisfaction to MI our
selves with the nectar OF select experiences ot
mtertinctures OF egotism SO charming IN Co m
ion is what seek in books OF the class OF MS as IN
iesrning franbness with fellowship and owe certain
bnshng reverence both For though our comPnon De
ye Vel wish him to be an enthusiast behind all re-
serves and capable of abandonment sometimes IN Ills
books" ~
He represents Emerson having, beyond any one ne
has known, faith amounting to superstition In ad-
mirabe persons" the divinity Of friendship come down
from childhood, and surviving yet in memory, II not III
expectation the OF excellence OF any sort Dehg
like the arrival OF new gift mankind, and he the first
to profer his recognition and hope" He regards Emerson
as having contributed than any one else to the es-
tabishment OF the Lyceum on noble plane Since his
art more than any Others has clothed 1t with beauty
and made IL the place of popular resort" our purest
fqruTn ant
aud the Western cities" Concerning EmerSOns bOoko
Of which the first one printed more than thirty years
ago, he says;
poet and moralst he has beauty and truth for all
And 9nv vonth OF free senses aud fresh affection shall
be spared years of tedious toll, In which WISDOM anu
length planets width from his grasp, oy gIIdts ,h ra
from tins college Ms books are smrehargeu %i m
sense, happy humor keen criticisms subtle mSghtS'
noble morals clothed IL N bsstS G15I9 anS prosress S1S
We Characterize and class him with the morahsts
MI fcaities of pbrsseas Plutarch, Seneca, Epcteus
Marcus Aurelus saad MOntaigne, Bacon Selden, siI
Thomas Browne, COwley, Coleridge GoeLhe, - VIII %lln
whose delightful essays, nOtWl hsan1ng an tne Pl.a
they give US, we SIN plead our c q,
these loyal leaves had with their owners nd before
Torn Torn INTO ms Confidence in the editing itself His
'Engish Traits deserved TO be hOnored as something
prlde as being the hyees portralture OF BRUSH genius
ana accomplishments there is,-a book IKE Iacltus, 20
,eTstipy ,he New Eneander's fame with that of ms
race. 'Tis victory OF eyes over hands, triumph oi
ideas Nor mas there for some time any criticism OF
people so characteristic and complete IL remaius IOl
him 70 do like justice to NeN-England'
or Thoreau he speaks with equal enthusiasm:
"a perpatetc philosopher, and Out-ofdo0rs for the
part OF MS days ana niglts, he had manifold
weather and in him the manners OF an animal
of prOby and virtue unstalned OI al our our m0Iaists LOT @
ne seemed the whOesomest, the busiest ana the pest
rep m ob Szeh a III sf & ovreondent by genius
and etfy individual, dropping society cream ou ~ i
theories, while standing ifiehay ~ us stI, d 9oe ot
friendship, there was IN hun ah INTEGRITY anu hOVe VI
justice that made possible and actual te virtues Qi
Sparta and the StOcs,-all the more welcome III ms
tame Of shutting and pusillanimty Plntarch Wondd d
have made him Immortal IN us pages nau ne ,. HHe1
entirely his own and ours 100 puIey 50 10 De ai R
precIated A scholar by Dlrthrlght, ana an
from the banks OF the he described in his books
hui one hazards only the truth in affirming Of his prose
that and pth il surasses that OF any atur
aIis OF time and he IS sure Of large reading IN tne
future. There fairer fishes IN bis pages thah any
sWmmiug in our streams sheep or his on the Danks
of the Mefrmae by moonlight that Egypt never nVaed
morning Of which MenMon might nave @ ensidd sd Lnc
frogs, better tnan any OF Aristophahes apples Wuer
than Adams His senses seeIaeS do9oe' gd'ins it nI
resembling that of the beaver the bee the 0Og the deer
instinct for seeing and Judging as py some otner OF
seventh sense"
Tboreau was Of cuIiously mixed descent His grand
father on his fathers side Frenchman and Cath
olc who married Scotch woman named Jen9le Burns.
On his mothers side his ancestry was NewEngiand ana
he possessed certain Of all these varied na-
tionate In hight he about the average Ia build,
souare with limbs rather longer than usual and Of which
he made long USE His face Roman in its contour,
with nGse almost like beak and with large brows over
hanging deepset eyes, blue in certain hghts III others
gayeyes expressive Of all shades of feeling but never
weak or nearsighted; the forehead not unusually
broad or high, but powerful; the mouth WIN
prominent lips. His hair dark brown, fine, soit'
and abundant. His clenehed hand denoted purpose
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