, 1874-10-25
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Br BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR.
in.vcs has q lake and d river that are classic.
mn ana is the Hudson, and the other Otseso.
1,,,.hody lhinks there should be more, let him
.o,s ,ore and no maa shall forbid him. Hap
~ Washington Irving and Fennimo:o Cooper
g.. s,dast soua. and 80 heirs to whatever OF
.,.1csn literary name and fame was worth H.
h,,t,,o. They had no rivals and few ltnltators
sbe, entered into peaceable possession when the
World s.s less troubled with angels than it II
rox-the sngels that ara necessarily saying.
@NHte!" 49,,
Rom 6,ty years Inter, they would have been
nnschrouEms, and might about as well nave nos
tapn born 1t Ill. The world grows more dlth-
co}t tn be caught every day Of it's life. but there
Ia . chance for the man who is born too soon.
The ouick world may overtake him and honor
lin with monument, though it has quite for
eot.eu where be WAS buried. That coroners can
hold IN inquest upon departed merit Without
tavins ans body to sit upon. is blessed thlne
for pr1utess and marble workers. and every
thing but the departed merit! Few ara they
who, ike Prof. Mo,se witness the un7ell1ng OF
their own statues.
Elm this, Cooper and Irving were alike: both
loved England 6li1}1y, faithfully. The one
bestowed upon her hs benedictions; the other
WIS as much an Islander as be could be in the
hears OF continent Both were insu1ar IN their
tastes. They would have been content with IN
skteroid. if they could hare taken the choices: Of
the g-r.t numbering earth with them il they
could hare had st command email maripe 20
eany their manuscripts to the mainland. They
Fue neither sordid nor selfish, but then they did
not Like to be jostled.
L is nos long since Irving's sketch-Book and
Oooper's Leatherstocklng we're in everybodys
hand, when Everybody" meant less and more
thsn it means now; less, because renders we're
fa7er; more. because the few read IS the saints
are charged to sing, with the spirit and
The understanding also." How Smith would fare
to-day, as the author Of Lving's Broken Heart,
cr what publisher would be gracious to Jones,
iuthor Of Cooper's Pioneers, is q curious inquiry
th.t viii hardly elicit reply Whether the
Ledger, wherein Henry Ward Deeche1 writes q
hay-ferez serial, would accept them, or yet any
magazine yield them place with The Luck Of
Roaring Camp, is not certain. Let us give the
nen Of Lakesids and Riverside the benefit Of
The doubt,
Aroug the Ways Of estimating literary fame
IRE the timetable and long measure. An e1-
snpay dog ordinarily lives longer than book
Twelve 5ears is great Wh1lo in the ephemeral
generations Of print and the Methuselahs arc
fx:e work that can stand the ravages Of
eentury Ind then come up somewhere in mans
path Like fresh flower in the spring, and bright
Gu his NY snd gladden. his heart, and With
nau,an nature enough in it to live another hum
ofeo, his achieved fame that men agree to call
1nmortality.-s sort Of infant immortality IN
s"sddling bands.
as 1ule' popular writer appears greater
sno gtauder 1t thousand miles than he does at
5onf elbow. He looms. Tie eagerness OF
people to subtect fayorite to the damaging
microscope Of daily observation almost always
pf1ogs its o"n punishment in one idol less, sud
tl0te oita q broken pottery. The paths OF
'ene, Today, aze as rough with them rs the
rvao 70 1ordan- Death and distance arc great
u.osloals'a' =. Ind many = man owes the glamour
" n@ 1ame to one or the other. snd for the
|@e season,-it keepe him out OF sight.
:, oa1 "h5 these deslings with the dead? Are
Torh Of living snd coonar hsva 1ono s;nc.
taken their al;ottod n1acaain ~. o~1d ~ 1at+ora
A'ave in turkey and o;ld;,o thav ~ dr,v,, m
in thousands Of clitter;no 1;,as 1;tt,s mo-s
f1s 1oseph, perb.n r;tb tha .tr.nr, NM
ppcn thu throoa VIM lnav lin mt tiIt1e
a.. .o4e ooss upon them, little oftener, than
-. ~ wa twenty years ago but what matters
III Ehsn the lne winea in tha eob-uabbed
bottles come up from the bin. there is =
s'ssh With the corkscrev re.dv to vour hand.
!. .o' amber, the crimson, and the golden set
SeEasalves aright, md shov the drowned gun-
.une I'll the same. So, tho dolicate touch, the
~ Hoed, the finished English, the quAint and
sUes hnmor Of Irving. are still thare. The sai:y
u alssz' Of coopers eea-storiea ha4 not lost
- aEor. Natty Bumppo. Leatheratockine,
Asksye, the Scout, the Pathfinder, the Trap
f9'-the rnany-sided mn of Otsezo.-ret
sunts dve In the roll OF manhood.
- And this is Why. October has thouchtful way
s'sh It. Ponsie, .hould no born in October
~ roodl t1yino h ranamher t,,a co1ored
tPlscdorB OF thu oo;,, w. h.vo +.,.a, e.. an