New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-17
WHAT SOME BOSTON AUTHORS ARE DOING.

usually interesting. "
WHAT SOME BOSTON AUTHORS ARE DOING.
trRoM AN occ AsIoSAL CORRESPONDENT oP THE TRBUSEI
Bosroy. Jan. 12-LOngfellow is always Occu-
MED In mis- library Cambridge at work on something
good 1t Is rumored that he has poem In preparation
which IL not to the light until Autumn HIS last
book Aftermath" has had an exceptionally large sae
both in Europe and America. Holmes is busy every day
at one O'Clock ecturing his medical class. which Is
ALWAYS full one. Sometimes, as was the case Few
DAYS SINCE the students applaud him voeiferousy for
his wit cannot be controlled while he Ia discoursing
az the rrayest subjects. Parsons tho translator OF
Dante and a poet OF fine genius. has returned from
London where ne has been soiournng Tor year, ahu
has taken in charming eyre near the Common
From his perch the clouds he sees things nahou
and fine which he puts now and then into sonnet or
song Lowell still fingers in Paris, buying old DOCKS
and deep in antique French and Spanish lore Some-
body saw him last month the Qu1i Voitare smoking
his pipe and scratching fearful JOY" out OF an oid
folio Charles Sprague, the poet OF half century ago
and everybody loves. no longer goes out oi his
sunny room m Westinghouse He IL tho oldest Boston
born poet, and Will reach the nneiies ere lOns
Whippe il indusriousy occupied on The GIobe news
paper and has lately printed some charming recoiec
tions OF Agassz its columns. His pen moves forward
instead OF backward and ne wrote better literary
articles than he is doing Emerson read poem at
the ladies' party last MONTH which Is already I'D type
FOR the February atlantic. He made Old faneui Han
ring again he stood up recite 1t, win all Ms wJhted
energy There is talk about town winch INDUCES the
hope that the Concord Philosopher may be induced 10
give some lectures Egypt, country ne visited iast
year Dana, the old poet. the friend of Bryant and
Irving is spending his Old in reading, anu listening
10 music At the Harvard concerts. his long and How
ing white locks are conspicuous always, and he rarely
misses those musical festivals. He is fast approaching
ninety and looks twenty tins side OF H. Fieds
whose lectures subjects connected Win houerh En-
gsh literature have been three times repeated ny lhV
taton Boston, November mas again Oeeh shod
to give them here, IN dlycourse, during hafeh OF
April Tacy are next to b. hoard Al the Peabody ihst
tute in Baltimore in February. Wucn they were hrst
delivered here At the Lowell Institute, the applications
for tickets numbered 5OO) but the hail coIii only ac-
conmodate 1892. Mr. Lowell invited Mr.. Folds to go
on at once and repeat the cours bat at thIt tune inc
lecturers time wholly occupied
Dr. Clark the author of small book on the education
of girls, has found himself famous IN every direction
His work gone already TO seventh edition. and he
is praised ana abused in public AMI IN private 10 that
extent he codll ask Tor greater notice lie is III the
front rank OF his profession and most wise ana cu!-
turcd gentleman. EIglan, France, ana Germany nave
responded gratefully his treatise, and his name rs
now current one an the societies. and salons VI rope
Gray the Clief-Justice VINO stands nearly seven
feet in his leather commands universal respect for his
sanity OF Judgment and his modeSiy on the bench.
When he gets the back az horse, which is every day.
everybody ptips for what with the personal
weight of the judge nd Le legal one not to bercckoned
pounds, il must he heavy load u troG WITH over the
milldam The ChicJ Istlcc and Phillips Brooks are tue
best-lookug in the city, and represent the most
avoidupois. Charles Francis Adams reported to he
writing an historical work. but ike gray gired Saturn,
he is "s!ent as a stone" in regard to his own intel
lectudl and political siAdleS.