New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-19
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.

THEIR DEATHS" OLD AND NEW" FOR
JANUARY-MR. HALE's sroRf-NR. EVER
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ROWED ROSES.
IPRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OP TnB TRBUNkl
RosroN. Dec. 17.-"The Memorial of Alice
and Phnbe Cary" by Mr.. Mary Clemmer Ames-which
Hurd Houghton OF the Riverside Press are about 70
publishseems almost another funeral flower laid
upon grave Of our dead leader For the memory
oHorace Greeley always be most intimately assoei
ated with that Of the Cary sisters He never missed
Sunday evening in their house when in Newfork. lie
used 70 drink there his two cups OF sweeteped mix ana
water. say his kindly saw, smile with that pleasant
chudkeness we all love 10 remember, and 90 refreshed
upon his busy way. These Sunday teVenings OF the
Carys were the nearest approach TO the lueai
literary reception ever made in this country Inc TWO
sisters possessed 10 wonderful degree, the womany,
home-making instinct They had an absolute horror Of
.boarding" and from the beginning they must have
home II was poor little place when they hrst came 10
New-York up flights Of stairs, but even then u was
pretty They would never run in debti II they
could only pay for crust, crust they must eat out
they made good cheer OF II by the brightness OF their
wits You forgot what you tasting, absorbed In
what You heard They thrifty aud energetic by IN
stnc and naturally they prospered so that the home
where they passed the last fifteen years or more OF the
irves was, though quiet and unpreendng one OF the
most attractive the city Lovely pictures were on It's
walls books Aned the many shelves; graceful little ar
lces Of rru were everywhere; and over all there was
the glamour OF feminnity, the something that dstn-
gushes a room which is arranged by wonanly myers,
which he the expression OF wOmany INDIVIDUALITY
Here in these spacious, warmhued parors, gathered
not only the most earnest, but many OF the most
brilliant, Americans Of our time. Here, men ana
women, rich in all rare graces, met and mingled. There
WAS mo formaty. You could come, fine or shabby as
suited your purse and your convenience But II any
Thing about you suggested sadness or loneliness that
was the plea which would bring Alice, at the earliest
sid Hprha lark
WoGld make you OF your welcome, and Der gentle
voice charm You from yOur solitude.
Among the visitors whom Alice loved best were emil
aren She had Of photographs In her room iof the
little girls who had been named for her. and busy as she
was she strove to find write to each of them
Drills mamma The love Of children, displayed In her
books for little folks genuine No child could call
mother carried in her heart through all her
after e the memory Of her little sister Lucy who was
three years old when she died. Alice remembered
and yearned for her, mother bereayed than as
sister She said to friend, in the Autumn OF loos'
tying then upon sick-bed "Lucy was goldenhaired
and bueeyed the only who looked like our mother
was not fourteen when she died I'm almost hfty now
msy strange when ten you that don't believe
there has been hour of any day SINCE her death IN
which have thought Of her and mourned for her
Strange isn't It, that the life and death OF little child
not three years old could take such hold on another
ue have lost the consciousness oil presence
Of that child" And then. stl dreaming over the past
she told what she called our ghost story The FAMILY
had lust built new house, but had yet moved into
It. There had been violent shower and every one had
rome in out Of the rain. About four In the after
noon the storm ceased and the sun shone out
There was a rsvine between the new house and
the old and suddenly looked across IL and ex
claimed thst door Of the house was open, and
Rhoda 1.-THE sister next older than Alice) standing
nit with little Lucy in her Upon this the family
-ushcd to look. and all Of them saw Rhoda standing
there holding the little one. Some one called out
-Rhoda" but there answer; and presently the
zeal Rhoda came stairs and said she had left Lucy
asleop above; and then she stood there with
he rest while they watched the woman opposite,
with the child 10 her arms, slowly sink snk sink into
the ground. until she disappeared from sight. Then
great silence fell upon them ALL They believed it to be
,warning-Of what they knew not They understood IT
,etter when RhOda died the next Autumn, Nov II, and
Gney month later Dec. TO- 1885, Lucy has been
many then by different members of the fam
ly-a little gOldeD-haired creature always In a red
tress-
The death Of these two sisters leaf in
ne long family record OF and SORROW In 1885 the
mother died and in 1887 the father married again. The
aew wife a widow ,.ofk suitable age, andt chdless,
aud had her temperament been different she might have
,een comfort to the motherless girls. But she
onstitutonany incapable Of comprehending them, and
considered al tune spent IN study as wasted. Alice
worked during the day. and studied at night though at
his Of candles her stepmother grumbled. But the
country gs would give up their cherished ambition
they must darnand lbaReithey would also study and
write and for ten long years, lthey studied, and
Erote and published, without pecuniary reOOmpense,
,feu discouraged and respondent butinever quite de-
spalring Alice accused of filing her earlier poems
nth graves-it was no wonder, when the
pest part OF herself seemed 60 her dead and
suried with her mother and her sisters; when
III her walks ended with the graveyard on the
hillside. After awhile, RECOGNITION began to come 10
aer Dr. Bailey OF TheNGtiOna Era sent her ten dollars
;be first money she received for writing Edgar
Alien Poe praised Pictures Of Memory" John G.
Whittier 10 the sisters words Of appreciation
and encouragement; and, in 1S9 Horace Greeley, the
editor OF THE TRIBUNE visited them in their home
said Of the interview al found thela first
Vst to Cincinnati. early in the Summer Of 1919. and the
Afternoon spent In their tidy cottage on Walnut Hills,
seven miles out OF the city 10 the companylOf cOngenia
spirits departed, is among the greenest Gases In
my recollection Of and events long past In the
May of Is8s modest little volume was published,
tled Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary :" and the next
gear sisters made visit 20 the East-to New-YOrk
and Boston, and ind Whittier in his quiet nook at
Amesbury. After anabsence of three months they
turned their Western hOe and ANEW star
IN Alice Cary's heaven--tbe star OF love.
Business had brought into her neghborhoOd
man. at time her superior in years. culture, and
fortune. To her he the man Of men. She loved
aim; and, many and tender though her after friend
ships were she Iored another. He could
been the king Of thought him, for he
enough allow influence Of his family who looked
down upon her, TO separate him from her. With
goman's faith she waited for him. and believed fully
that would back, until she read in hts
marriage 70 another Can you think" she said once
-what life would he, loving one-waiting for one-who
would never eomef Did the of waiting for him
20 with her. Der life through At the last he His
wife was dead, and Ahoe. herself dying The gray
Aaired man down beside the gray haired woman