The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-15
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.

From the London Spectator, August l4.] :
The child-world has lost a friend. who
IS to it what Shakespeare is to the
own-up world of men and women, by
peaceful passing away of ''dear
1d'sen,'' as every one in Copenhagen
lied the wonderful story.teller-to the
it a child in heart and in ignorance Of
ways of worldliness. He belonged to
eQuaint and simple Danish city all his
.e, as entirely as Thorwaldsen belonged
it in his later days, and in more init
tie way-in proportion to the expan'
'eness of his own nature and the
.rmth and variety Of his own sympa-
les. He belonged to every family, and
d, more than the entree for, after all
at implies a grace-his own place in
cry household. With the servants, as
tn the masters, he was ''dear And SEM,
1 d nobody ever passed him without o.
! utation. Il is hard to fancy city and
burb without his familiar, shabby, un-
inly, slouching figure, in its ill-ftting,
brushed clothcs-(he always wore
A piping trousers, which touched the toes
A his gigantic boots, and a shawl, his
y or any body's, it did not matter,
tapped round his shoulders) land his
sly musing face, abstracted seeming,
tkeenly observant too, with high, re-
ling forehead, its closeset eyes, and
steep incline from the top of the fore
I'd to the nape Of the neck, as if the
ok Of the head had been sliced away.
) individuality was perhaps. more
:rked than that Of any famous man on
ord, and remained more entirely un-
anged by the lapse of time and by cir.
instances. He never ceased to be a
ldy to the observer. who first regarded
with the curiosity he inspired in
,ry one but each days observation
fresh confirmation OF the impress
n he had made within an hour Of meet
him. In that charming Danish so.
ty, frank, kindly, simple, cultivated,
vas child they had set in the midst
child, according to, the ideal of child
ID; keenly sensitive, entirely egotistis-
ii, inAocently vain, the center of life,
crest, concern and meaning to him
IL, perfectly unconscious that there ex-
I'd another standard, an outer circle.
| ing it for granted that everywhere
lin everything he was to be FIRST and
; glad with the gladness, sorrowful
b the passing grief Of childhood, pet
mt and pouting, downright, without a
ion Of reticence. or indeed, Of mod
y, but equally without a notion of
t or indecency; full of opt1mist salts
ton when all was we'll with himself,
lyet incapable of self.seeking, or de-
of any kind; disinterestcd as much
m ignorance Of advantage to be gained
objects lobe sought, as from nobler
rec of disinterestedness incapable of
sidering the convenience, or Of under.
+nding the ways and methods of other
pile; in word, always interesting,
sometimes troublesome.
Jobody in Copenhagen would, however
e been guilty of the treason of think.
Andersen troublesome. TO the mex.
stable indulgence accorded to a pet
Id they added the profound veneration
h which imaginative people regard
Jus, especially in its poetic manifesto
~. The ''dear And'sen' had rooms Of
own, but he was rarely in them, and
not only went as often as he liked al
hours he liked to everybody's
,se, but he might bring any number Of
plc, and a friend who knew Ander
was a possepartout.- lie was per
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