New-York tribune., 1882-04-28
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the poet and prophet. But his magnonimous spirit
soothed and Teassured u.s. and TO the ntie nt,in @ wo
brought he added full store. iDsert1nga goiu cup
in our coarse sacks of common grain, 80 that we
returned To our brethren with gladness anu pIaiso
Yet what disapp0intments he must nave sucaou Ts
What trials of patience and hospitality! What sel
restraints is the visits of friendly. though 1atai'
"deyastators Of the day!
"To try our yaor fortune sends foe;
To y our equanimity, a friend"
He bore all with gentle serenity, and doubt
less extracted from fools and bOres some Wise or
witty thought. The nearest be ever came 10 uls
missing VISITOR that have heard Of was when
Emerson h. ms belief Urging that the wCrld was
surely about to come to an end, Emerson repled;
Z" Wcll let it go; we can get ON Just as wen
Yes he could do very we'll without 1t, and must
often have done lie has entered at length upon
no uncertain ex experiment. Bat what shall we do
without him Let himself answer: Great men
Ne,r- York. April 81, 1882 JOIN ALBEE.
A TRIBUTE FROM BRONSON ALCOTT.
Duringthe winter of 1878 the parlors of the Rev.
Joseph Cook, of Boston, were thrown open on one
day in every month for symposium, conducted by
the venerable Bronson Alcott. Both Mr. Cook and
Mr.. Alcott aimed to invite thither representative
literary and professional men to participate in the
discussions On one Of these occasions Mr.. AlcOtt
discOursed to crowded parlors in his easy conversa-
tonal style, on his Concord friends living and de-
ceased who had been known as leaders In the
Transcendenta movement. The substance OF his
remarks on Emerson as follows -
Emerson is our first truly American or New-En
land writer Abroad he is regarded our chief rep
resentative author. and has had wider influence
than any of his contemporaries upon our younger
writer's If he is less read than other authors, ne
always controls his readers IL is always Emerson
himself who speaking. lie is not wide reader
and yet nothing has escaped him. lie Is an ABSORB
Ing reader. This il always characterlstlc
OF genius While it bOTOws it hides its borrow
ings. Emerson is q man of the country and IS Ia
miliar with nature: de loves soItude ana Knows i:
what to do with it. lie does nothing or thinks
nothing which he does not put down IN ms Journal
or notebook: SO IN an interview with Trend or
IN reading book the best thing said or read goes
into the diary Ii doesn't take him long TO read
book tie knows how TO geU the honey out OF books,
nature and experience. lie has the eye OF New
EngandeT, and hls observations go INTO ms com
monplace-bOoks. When an idea seizes him he turns
to these notebooks to see what ne has upon IT,
This paragraph. he says Is good for a beginning.
that one is the best to close wltn once went INTO
his study and found him with the sheets 0 ms com
monpace-bo0k spread out IN every di-
rection, while he. was trying to gather
up from them what he wanted tOr
the essay In hand. When he has culled what he
wants ana shuifed his materials into some sort OF
form he goes out to read his lecture and tries 1t on
people to how il ls, and when he IS satisfied Dy
actual experience that there Is something III IT, ne
sends 1t to press. He does not read criticisms ON
his writings, and while he always listens WIN
courtesy to the advice OF others, Is seldom known
TO follow it,. lie writes almost as we'd as bright
ana cultivated women converse They always
speak the best English. Emerson has been before
the public forty years, and may be fairly SAID 10
have made the American lecture. Emerson Is the
typical gentleman of this country tor nooesty, for
grace of manner, for magnammlty, iOr hospitality
fOr friendship
Mr. Emerson Is an ethical writer In him the
Puritan type rDened, but did not lake the Puritan
form. HIS mOuesiy did no, allow him to put Ills
thought into the usual forms, ana so he was SILENT
He frequently attends the Unitarian Church, ana
his daughter Is one of its most devoted members.
Emerson absolutely sincere III thesc respects EX-
cept III one sentence hls essay on immortality, ne
accepts that doctrine lie Is CHRISTIAN lhelstj an
indIyIduafhat belongs 10 the church OF one menl-
Der His creed is unwutten. He Is better than his
creed He Is a man to be taken by the hand as
brother among all Christians, l have never fully
sympathized with him III his religious opinions
Inerc is "A type OF mind which does not express It's
Inmost convictions, and Emerson has 1t. lie Is
greatly beloved by the Concord people, and Is uni
yesaiy rcglrued their foremost citizen IN every
aood,work lie il a thinker. but his writings appeal
Very strongly to ali men by their vigorous common
sense