, 1877-10-20


Inler Lewis t'aylor'l Clark the h"'r>rIoeter
made the lest OF llca,lway. It, wast indeed. In
.calfer and f'nrc practical han.3: ptfhar!. tnan
Iohsnan's would have been. Clark bah ihe tai-
mt Of tho editor Is foncthlnE by which the
,cncral public profits most. anu which it least
appreciates Or understands. For twenty-five
s, Or nc e't{ s fff sFss nd %2Rh &C.
Ip." which we're perpetual pleasures 70 the
knitker1oeker's rea'lefs; and never failcf to
1ring to them frcslsness. PURPOSE, and visacitv,
.grcratton to call The rare.t ability III tho world.
M ttnali part Of the story Of the formative
,erioti Of our literature in told in thf dfty.odd
voiumes OF the E>Htetsr1ocksr. pau1ding wrote
toF tho tisst Of them; llowet1s and A'dtieh, And
tween the essayists Of Shin.dgundt and the au. |
thors OF to-day there is hardly = remembered
writer unrepresented In The n1onthiy..s pages; |
eJe over the tables Of contents ''ctween 1910
and lS'0-not generation ago. BY any means- I
aud sec how easy It II to slip into tho limbo
that lies between real life in The public mind
stili has kind Of phantom exstepce, while the
Who now reads Mr: Richard B.. Kim
hatrt "st I.eger,n'. which when II was re-
pubii.hed from lie Knteke,.seetxr, ran through
eight American and two English editions II
four yearsl Il would be safe 10 say that It Is
an almost unknown hook, except Ny titlcs to
the younger noTclscaders OF fv-iay; But at
Of the pillars OF the hnfektrtrcter't strength.
So was Henry T. Tuckcrman, whose cnHHttess
essays bookbinsling could not make either than
cphemera1. The l1ht work Of the monthly f'a'!
an even shorter life, rs ~as natural enough:
yet sutne Of 1t was capital. and running through
It Is not BY any means the wutHt way tn bpent
an evening. There was scrtc. Of papers by
Willis Gaylord Clark, nlgned Ol'aifH!i, !n!s, ana
.tDllopOeIiana:" there Is bright work It'll
them, hut il Is doubtful il careful
canvass could bring to light nny one uM!.r
are who remembers them otherwise thar, ,!Iialy.
There was = similar series by Frederick Coz
1ens, called II 'l'ristna.!cs," and nutlsheed undrr
tue uosn dc nlutue of tlieharl iisYwardG And
ttyre werc stor!GA without numlcr, utterly Tor
gotten pow. to wi,tch We neycrthecss turn back
now aud then with a positive a'lettt9,l; lc"o
them are a. good a. those tho italics from
HIackwoodn - have taken from magazine pages
aud preserved As efas*t In their way.
II ttuay be imagined that the fHicittteetts was
nut suffered long to Occupy the new Held without
rival. Almost at the satnc moment With It Was
begun the ifnrritan Monthly -NHqt-;nt. with
Of the oldest characters ever numbered among
the list of American Hohe1niant. Henry william
Herl,ert. Herber, was au Engl.hrnat by birth,
and Of good family and ctlucatiun-a son ut the
| Cambridge; but three years after he had taken
his degree, auu when he was but ~ rears old,
lfc GANG 10 America and aslc bis home here at
trst II teacher Ut tue c'ass'es III private school
| dcid-sports Of ali kinds: but he hal strong
literary tastes, a great deal Of thorough bchoar-
stfp. md a vigorous imagination; and the want
Of 1arvcr lneo.ue Joined with Ills natural tend
cncica to lend him early 10 the Periodicals.. He
| vas sc1lular in tufrAoots nttl tpurs; hunter
| with the pen; he quoted Grcck over his dogs
und his dogs and horses In turn. werc al"nya
intrudihQ themselves into lis literary work.
NF1k
remember him entering HI edltur's r'oin With Q
l.uec hound Aloucbing at his heels, or colning
i,ooted and spurrcdwlth shot,pouch and an az
ttcle 10 the same pocket, Ac wns ~ uneoIn. m
full set ot the Tory opinions which would
bad planned hin for--that Of q hard.
Ens,s ,sE S4uff IL, 81 hsT rsae1 q novel;. tnt
of which 4 whole series came rapidly from hl:
most restless pen, we're full of stirring nattei
--hghtjng and heroic turmoil Without eud
"sherr"Dd Forest, or Wage. Q! Batsic;" "lht
Wyvl; i"Ths Miller Of MaTtfgny ''-wlo read
them uowi Yet they arc nut hal rcadfue. fo
any one wto has the TING and u sotne"tat sto.i
literary diEe.tIos'. AMI his 9noks S,l; ps1 ~ he.a
Dc plume In this department. rank Forester
-out!iyes h!s proper patronymtc:
Tlu american .Mutth'D wns from the begin
Mug very uneveuly eitsa' as mS pefhap, ,l,;,',
in II, but It bud nu standard for IT. work. ah
the old numbers arc an odd 1umo'c Of goo
with entirely hopeless literature. u Eatl,sre
no strong stall ot writers. nd Therefore aan ~!
ity could certa!ulv not bc supplied by It's efrati
founder Or his colleague. Their management cor
tinued but a year or two, and then the niaRaz1tt
1fS te o5e facls 9tl Iafe t s"ss
After Ave years OF lifc 1t ceased pnblSat'o
with the end Of 'lS; mud, on the wl,oIr, IT. fat
calls for but little mourning. a. for "Eran ,n
his W. tGa9 Ha festsss IT, b9t "a
nctcs1stic cud. For years he taught and wrott
, lis articles arc scattered through tho pcEiodi
als Of two decades; bis endless tpofttnc.lonf
.. Il Hh ae ind Chosen Or 6a.i known how 10 kee
ont 10 New Jersey, which he cal!e
"The Ce.lasA" aud devoted to G1
s .tans; ta3 aa S o reans sss e.entis sss
i,omnl In lils tastrs and habits Ills last pr
!. tractcd woFk was OIL the old etltton Of y
}. american Cvtto1<dM; and il was Just after
I articles for ihls that the difllcutirs invuly'
. l,l,n, ct the morbl1 fancies sctzvd him, whit
brought Ills curious career to It's unlo:sgd-i
close. lie gnye u dinner Ut the Drandretl! tiuu
thelr wiuc aud fruit, went ipto oil ad(otnl'
| room, md s!Iut himself. There was rush fru
the dinncs.tablc, but only to lind him lyi'
dead, Without All explanation. IL WAS a see
out 0f une Ut his awu noyels--n tsue "G
Livingstone et{cct.
|. It WAS about two years after the foundatt
10 OF the .1meriean -no.thiu, md while the fHk
l. tr10tktr was still IN decided infancy. that t
:, Southern Lftfrarp .Heaseger WAS begun Ut l!ls
p u,ond ty r. ". White, . liberal and ambitto
. publisher, AM! apparently capable and etticic
q. manager, but not III uny sense tnah of lettc
T. it had ntly bcen few months In existcl
when chance brought him tnto contact with I
man whose nnt,e wns to give the -lezst7.3*r
ftrat real Importance In our literary history.
ltis an old story how Mr. Kennedy
"llorsssl,oe Robinson" sud II Swallow barn
frtt gained au interest in EdEsr Pc tltnlt
The prkxc-slory sent BY htn, to u Daltsmt
pewspsper. aud how the nriter ot the Mar
script Found tn a Buttlc" was commended
the novelist to A&r. White. 81 havc uo douo
wrote Kennedy TO the founder oi tbs -Gesstnq
"ho can be made very usclut TO you. 4!
poor fellow! he il se'v toor. y
YounE fellow 10 highly Imaginative, anu lit
gwen 10 the terrific. liz IL Vi work upon
tragedy, but | have turned him to 1r,ldE
II upot, Whatever may Makc 1nouey, anu ] b!
np 20 doubt you and he will ind your Account
n: each otheF,n The hope proved true, aud,
nd though Poe remained In baltimore, he seeias
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