Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-29

what they wrote printed. were cousid-
cred persons Of induhitable genius. Her
maiden name was Prince, aud she was
born in Cumberland, Maine. Her age is
unknown OF untold, which Is the same
thing (how very few women willing to
tell the day Of their birth y, but she can
not be-d I may be allowed to conjec-
ture-Very far from sixty. She is re-
ported TO have been married to Seba
/ smith, author OF the renowned Jack
! Docat7g Letters, before she was seven
teen, and at that callOw period TO have
| become an anonymous contributor TO
/ the periodic press. Owing to the pecu-
/ MARY troubles Of her husband she en-
! hrsced the inky trade, and removed in
! 1912 10 the metropolis, where she soon
/ acquired quite literary reputation-at
/ that time not a difficult task, especially
I for a woman. She wrote both
! prose and verse with equal facili-
| ty: and il may be added, with equal
merit: turning Of poems, essays, novels,
critiques, tragedies, almost everything,
IN short, that could be produced with 3
pen. She lectured, likewise; appearing
on the platform Of the leading cities
with a good deal Of success. She was q
pleasant speaker, and her matter, to use
a commercial phrase, was fair to mid
ding. She was vastly oyerrated, aud it
is not strange, therefore, that she over
rated herself. Without an atom Of ge-
MUS OF originality, without any consid-
cradle culture, she was regarded for a
considerable time as q woman Of re-
markable mind and attachments. Later
years, being more fastidious and critical,
refused to sccept her at her own or her
friends value, and the spurious reputa-
ton she acquired steadily dwin-
died. Her manuscript, which had
found a ready market, grew to
be unstable, and the poor woman,
who was dependent on her pen,
had, and still has, a severe struggle with
fortune. She has had on rand for some
while several works, one of them an au-
photography, for which she has been IN
able TO find a purchaser. They who
know her speak OF her as smiaole, esti-
mable, generous. She seems to have
made the mistake-and very common
mistake il is-Of imagining merely aver
age ability to be genius Of a high order.
For some time past she has been resid-
ing, a widow, on Long Island, and has
had many troubles TO embitter her life.
Personally plain, she has 4 very intelli-
gent face, expressive eyes, q good pres
eDce, and a figure inclined TO em5On-
point. She has been remarkably indus
trious, having earned, il is said, not less
thau forty thousand dollars by her pre-
carioUs and usually unremunerative
calling.
GEORGE HENRY CALVERT
Is q veteran author who has outlived his
fame. His lineage is more distinguished
than his literature, being a grandson Of
Lord Baltimore, whose ancestors were
renowned both in colonial and European
history. The Calverts claim descent
from an ancient and illustrious Flemish
house of the same name. GeOrge Hen
RVS mother was native Of Antwerp,
and a lineal descendant Of Rubens, the /
eminent painter. Born in Baltimore in !
1903, he graduated st Harvard when he
was twenty, and afteTwsrd studied at
GOttingen IN Germany. On returning |
to this country, he edited for four or five l
years the Baltimore american, and has I
been contributor to it during the greater 1
part Of his life. Before he was thirty,
he published Illustrations on PbyeaolOOg, /
the first treatise on the subject on this /
side OF the sea. He also printed trRnsla- /
tons from Schiller, Cont Julian a trag- /
edy, two cantos Of a poem called CdGiRO, /
and going abroad again wrote aseIies OF |
letters TO the dUlerican that were after
ward bound under the title of Scenes
and Thoughts fJl Europe. He was one
Of the first to discuss and make the
people OF this country acquainted with
nydrOpsthy and the schemes Of Fourier.
His last work was life Of Goethe, a
task he was well qualified to perform by
residence in Germany, careful study,
and by sympathy with the poets char
IL - han- Z ]
IN the school OF, and to have formed
himself upon Goethe, and his BIZ
1grsphy, therefore, was 8 labor Of love.
Calvert has more scholarship than ma
i've parts. He has had every advan-
age Of leisure, training, travel, and has
lone his utmost TO develop snch talent
~ ne Is possessed OF. 1t is quite prob
able thar if he had not had wealth and
social position, he would not have
gained one quarter OF the reputation he
las. For the past thirty years he has
mad his home in Newport, Rhode
Island, having been chosen mayor
Of that old town in 1858. Rsther
; dilettsnte than an authorize
Is none the worse for that-he
iispenses an. elegant hospitality, and is
never happier than when he il the CEN
Ter Of a circle OF hterati and artists,
whom he praises for their praise. Ven
cradle, genial, accomplished, eourtly,
having line tact ami fOw Of speech, few
Americans have the mind and the
means TO entertain more delicstely and
delightfully."- than George Henry Cal
vert.
SARAH JOsEPHA HALE
S, or was, associated in the minds Of
,ur mothers, with the "Ladies'
Nreaths,' ''Casket," annual Offer
ngs, and other snowy, trashy books.
which il used TO he the fashion to make
PRESENTS of. Close upon eighty, she
continues in editorial harness, and
PROMISES TO remain there for years to
Ome. Born in Newport, New Hamp-
hire-her maiden name was Buell-she
vas married at nineteen TO David Hale,
country lawyer OF some distinction,
Who, eight years sfterward, left her a
widow. Undertaking authorship, she
the "Genius of Oblivion, and
)ther Original POems,' and q novel
allied "NOrthward." In 1928 she re-
moved TO Boston, where she became
be editor Of The Ladies Magazine,
il for nine years. Having {
cen merged in The Ladg's BOOk Of l
she went to that city to
nee. From the various papers con- I
-ibuted to those magazines she made a !
lumber of volumes, none Of them re- {
iarkable for anything in particular. I
lost Of her writing has been strictly Of
ne hack sort, but il has procured mo- !
ey, If not fame. Her best known I
reduction is "Woman's Record an q
,tav0 Of nearly q thousand pages, con- r
lining sketches Of all the distinguished Z
omen from the creation TO 1884. The o
tie would seem to he satirical; for als @
lost anybody would suppose that q z
nall library would not contain what Z
suggests. Mrs. Hale has wrought o
18th au eye 10 practically, and has Q
OF wrought in vain. She has been ex- 4
sOrdinarily industrious, and has rem q
cred herself independent by writing. /
nd compiling q strange medley of v
1yme, story, sketch, culinary recipes, o
lvenile tales, rOmances, dramas, and 5
odds and ends. She is c
escribed as very amiable and agreeable U
/ private life, and TO be much better !
slker than she is writer, which she G
light be without eXhausting the re- i
'urces Of nature. She has not attempt '
TO cultivate the ideal; but sas stead 9
y-aud Wisely-followed the real: the Z
III lululskAAuE Tie lctbs1Abtts ~ wei rs -
le luXuries of life, while all the ideals e
lat can be imagined would not supply r
single crust. The counterpart Of Mrs. e
ale is Q
REV. !. T. HEADLEY, y
no has inflicted az much fustian upon / Z
Ie reading community as any man Of n
s time. He il native OF Delaware 5,
unity, in this. State, and sixty years
q. After graduating at Union college,