, 1876-01-09
A Rare Evening Entertainment
at '1rs. Sargcnt's.
E. P. Whipp'e' Gives His Thoughts
About FIVa Poets and Two
Noye!ists.
Longfollow aad Lowell -Hawthorne'a De-
fect-Julia Ward Howe's Battle
Flynn, and lErs, Stoves
Star-Fire.

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I fro" our o''n coTTt'o0"afns.
| BOSTON, MAse. Jan. b-1bs haoss uensu'lu
| entertainment which Mrs. Sargent L1s been All
to ot1er her guests this winter at anG Of be
| .to,a,.;,n,n;, !, ~, .,,o,t .o.d,,o hr r p W,ip
Fle: tuae n'os' e&4"'s1se "l'tef aou hsnoo .'.''e
| q! paper upon several OF the most Distinguish
| ed Of tue o!dar poets md lonancers of New En-
r,,nd- This was n mana, ,har nobody wished tt
.ht,t ~ ,,,,;,o =, -, A. t.,,,,,r, ,orktv oh,r,
sn'A ~ eo"''e ~ 'asa ~, ~ uans'os aH.sv .ss'
the dooi"a:s' ME' Nhtppie ID NOE on's appFe
| clated lY mature scholars, but ho Also Tie.d5 {
| Charmed cen for tina Younger generation Tnt
| .act m II in bo mat h;maetf. and when ho
~ =, ' eo'. ...;..t -.
"1l'sS aoo'.' poo'a u's P'oee uas uste". tADF
which Sings equally at times "is;' his suolsct'
BEGINNING WITH EMERSON
as rhe greatest in one secse because g he called
hin, ..s, a,a,na,tar ,on.ar he ,ouchad e1oouont,
r1u4' ~A te,a po"o'' ~ a:H1s rss.
y upon one philosopher pure anu sli'P'o' ineo-
core Parker and then 1905 up, ono afteE anosaef'
the FIVE poets, LopgfeIlov, Whittier, Holmes.
{nwe, and ;rs, .tyl... Ward Howe Following
th.s. .,1,a +ha .z, ,,,o,ists u,r,h.,rna -,S,
.aee $40 $no '"o "''oA1'0' AN
Ats. oso"e" .... ........,
1t Is difficult to conceive any estimate r.ore it,
kerestinp than tlat III N, Emcttou JtNa8 Iiks
=, ;,,,,,,,;,,t,o, :, n, vo,nc,r ,steocrs
1A ~
aaa e"ess le's' p~Fusps' 'os 1pe
first tlue ss0t the ct-l,hlie esouher really was.
Ills o,enias sentences. tna. Ralph Waldo En-
crsc., s,,n,ls xjoun IN MIR literatrre aa an aie-
,,o,,t.. ~ ~, a,ar,ont.-. ,,worn
tuen.a'' su1naei Aou az po"o''
thas ne WAS = not only of1sloa'' ohs aooF1Slpal
as it wese," opened q. once to Us the fine VEN CT
critical ana1ys;s lIch NC might expect, And vc
wa,a nor disseminated ua sbo,o,t ua r,narao,
Us tue "of'o sesa'os n'tn' Win nausnts 'o-
dlTlonaHtS'dcnotiuel lottg seclaslon' aua CON-
pared him ON this height to Co-inlanus, who
.aan,s IN stord
:. yhz.r
T. ns = . .asu - = ".uo go usA - - AA'"eA'
n,,o. 80 .,,a,sa ,,;a, ~, y, .,s. ,d
!Dea 80 eAo"e 49, - y. 0"ee'ns' '' NV ~
p2ants 10 LIS 'naae'nasion' WHICH 'PesSades all
a And bes: Of all. We herr from this louc fri.nd
of n,e tn,. snht}e narer. r.h.,udad crit,c tha,
,.,,a ,,;nh, -, H.. a,.-a,.a,,aa =.
1no 'e'e.' ~ us enA'a..'' 'o,'csponua " sos
elevation OF b's sai"k'ng. And that = ne has
earned the right to his thoughts By groT.n1 up
to their lovel." What cha acter this is for Us
IA cnutar,.lata -slsn,,ius, "a ha does like E,nn
u,., ..,.;.o ,;..'s 49,. ~ 49, AAs A1ai, =
40 "4'..o us"S 'ua' oeas' 0oo.' ''''o17 ,
tar i'll tho midst OF tho dust aud dirt OF political
ro;zn1 r., ,,roed na-t,rs that Fn,erao, 1;yos ~.
a<su.,. s:-t ~. ..s.,ss,. -
- " ~ ~ - - ~ ~
about Boston KNOWS that Emerson Is most
practical liver in tie trorM shirling no RESPONSE
b.l1tios Of the citizen. He is not il the clouds,
dreamer like Alcott, by any meaas.
Those persous wao have beeo in the habit Of
ranging Emerson with all the heretics of tia
nay should have beard Mr.. Whppe's clear
a.alys,s Of the religious portion Of his oharAc-
ter and writlues. '.Thongh outside OF all Or
ganizaticns Of sect or church." he tells u.s.
'.auu neyar using the terms OF theology in his
case as i'll the case Ut Ch.uuing, there is IN un-
conscious roturu to Jonathan Edwards and to
the grea, d1vinos whose souls had sight Of thu
.tsraal VERT es.'
Mr. Whlpplc, in this clear phrase, translates
that CURIOUS, mystical expression which gives
tho title to one Of E1nersoa's esyays-..Ihs
uYer Sou!,"-as what orthodox Saints cali The
Holy Ghost Aud Aa says, with truta q have
all fsls who hare real Emerson freely, That
''the uobtest passaeos in his writings are those
III whicl, be celebrates this august and GRACIOUS
commuu,ou OF the spirit OF God with the soul
Ut uau." and that 'tlaY uc the most solemn.
oc=tA,ic, uplifting passages in our Lite. asu1e."
AID jubI thiuG in these days Of muco w,lting
when j; seems as II oven cierer literary workers
were putin. as iittio Thought as possible INFO
their pages, of tAis fanatic for npac,uess" Is
Nuiypie calls him, .uf4cn coudsus.ne the ra-