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Oldest and most eminent, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, passed on Tuesday his seventy
seventh year. IN the enjoyment of calm
and peaceful old age and with the retrospect
OF noble life spent in the mental emsncipi-
ton and uplifting of his fellow men. No
American writer has had such an influence
on his generation as he; and there is no one
whose posthumous fame is better assur-
cd. 1t was happy thought of the
Boston Literary World TO devote its
current number to tribute to Mr. Emerson,
apropos of his birthday. in the shape of poems
and prose articles on his characteristics from
leading authors. All who read and all who
think arc under obligation, consciously, to
Emerson. and the tributes from the few are
but the expression of the thoughts of all.
Among the tributes is one from Max Muller,
which introduces translation so sublime
that We copy it in full:
The translator of the Cpanishads,
Mokshamula- Ra, sends greetings and best
wishes to his American Guru, Amarasunu,
on his seventy-seventh birthday, and encloses
an extract from an Upanislad. lately dis
covered:
Old age and decay lay hold of the body,
the Senses the memory, the mind-never Of
the Self, the looker-on.
The Self never grows tired-the body
grows tired of supporting the Self.
The Sell never grows blind-the windows
OF the senses become darkencd with dust and
rain.
The Self never forgets-the inscriptions ON
the memory fade. and it is well that much
should be forgotten
The Self never erIs-thc many wheels of
our own small watches grow rusty, but We
look up to the eternal dial in the heavens
above which remains right forever.
John Greenleaf Whittier. tho most truly
American poet who ever wrote, sends this
cordial greeting:
No words OF mine can overstate my respect
and admiration for the great poet and essay
lst whose seventy seventh birthday the
Literary World does well to honor Stand
ing as he does at the head of our literature,
and foremost among the philosophical think
ers OF our age, it needs no gifts of prophecy
to foresee that his reputation will lose moth
ing by the lapse of time. No living poet of
the Engish-speaking tongue has written
verses bearing more distinctly than his the
mark of Immortality. In his prose works
all must recognize his keen insight, wisdom,
hne sense OF humor, large tolerance, and love
OF nature in her simplest as well as granslest
aspccts--an inimitablc combination of prac-
tical sasacty, profound reflection and nys-
tical intuition. May his days bc long in the
land JOHN q. WHITTIER.
George W illiam Curtis writes some rcinin-
iscences Of "llr. Emerson and the Dial,"
and concludes The influence of its editor
has been noiseless, hut extraordinary Many
OF the most popular and Immediately effec-
tive American writers and orators seem to
have been middemen between Mr. Emerson
and the great public. To the young men of
the last generation he spoke with the same
deep power with which DIR. Charming affected
Mr.. Emerson's own younger generation, and
that power he has never lost, because he has
always rcvcrenced the dreams of his youth
Those who have felt throughout their lives
this purifying and elcvating and liberalizng
power, and who have seen in his inspiring
Career the perfect sanity of true genius, can
never think without affectionaie reverence of
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