The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-09-03


 ] Inn Album" he declared to be irritating Being 4 warm adnirer of Browning took up the cudgcls in his favor. and quoted passages from Rabbi ben Ezra and :, Fra Lippo L.ppi.2 &hich-i -iIa, iilii4d. proved Browning to be great poet.
 ..Yes. il is all very subtle and interest ing: very ingenious and some ai T is qerv inc too. answered NIr. I-ansieilo~. But what very bad and slesenix verse. Il k a question in ny nind whether that kind If thing is poetry.
 Another time tit Ras either n 74 or -5f he had been seadins = l entered. ,clegraphr extract from Icnnyson Queen Mary" ,he title of which ~ar sifen in the i.ea spaper as 'Blaady Mary.
 | was ius; wishing. he sad. as ] shook It, hand. '>tha, ~nae one mtsht come in towhom might express IL. ehasrla at he tijle of Ieuut ,an's new drama,
 Bloody Mary. hat lz and~ailed ai.l commonplace He ought ie have called | ",iary Iudor Mary faaor tha, aa, t nnc an6 stately ...uud.
 0f Nr. loastella0's k.naness et hear; haze had nan p.aofs winch | would pcrhap, De .Hd.s1r,gt tu4mctalc. my 5c pa5- doncti. howe e. f9f -eleei t,ss.-H.s 3n>faf.As sb3,h i- la some re-qest5.g gYf |. ttl577s' t sear and s htii asa. as !alEs-efi4t. BeH,o.s t,, -"IuutaHs T. 1a'nhiidse. .ud iuf a f. eIa5 ,, @..- ide ..ae=ts oir the ..u1ly wl'u .,hain he g.a> as8Ha.i Hadae m ;ss,i.st t..it ,tpen Nf. ansfei.u@. taa foHciycd on theieiiaa.ne d.ty an iatita- t.uu tn diuc burns ouf ed,tPfnaiA zmekc in the hhrafs 4iler d.aaer. h. made some discreet ln4alflcs concerning ny personal aii.u1a. and after a medlts- tiac pau asked me eshY did aot apply f.r ;, cetulc,ill. II lhe ioN eii lnsulate sa Boston He added that the pay NJ, very good. and that nN ieelandiH ,,gdic- would fuinSh me MJlh Il novel
 hd intcrc>,in. subject. ! fsatsed thaf aa,h.ns would be more agreeable te He han m invitation to l. tirc ou the lee land saga Literature .be,are the Lowell institute. bu, that 04, na: acJulmtat N.ih the gentlemen Who lad the apolHt ncnl of lecturers in ihetf hands. Aif l-uagtclloW sad nothing more. but about lhrcc weeks later received a letter from the curator If the Institute: the appoint mcnt followed. And Il lew week, a.s". ANhlic convcrsIue @iih one oi tbe trustees. learned that thciI attention had been directed tu me by a letter from Mr Long fellow. By comparing notes with other men of letters have come to the eenela 9ion that Mir. I.ontcllow mas constantly IL ;hc habit of conierrlng thls kInd at '.leofs apon younger men whom he believed worthy ui encouragement And .iit that he iid was >0 uojSlc>~iy and unUSIcnta tlousll done ,ha, the beneficiary hardly kuex Mhi,hcr io iurn Mt, h, Sraillude
 The gcntlcnc>, and serenity ni Mr ois.e!!ow nature made him necessarily avcrsc to everything that wsts steleht and passionate. The range ef h. emo tions lay ali along the mlddie eetaVes; and thclr beauty i.tS neither III leitlnes- ar depth. bu, m Il singular sweetness and purity ot tone. Ii Il edse oi individual distress wa, brought ta his notice. he helped readily and wuh both hands: bul the great ial problems oi the age did not trouble him. .tnd hardly interested inn. The scientific questions which ag- ltatc the intellectual atmosphere ot the century also left hm cold: and If they Aerc touched upon ln his presence he soon showed by the saguene>> oi his aE- swcrS that the topie WAS not eongenlal te htn. His thoughts moved Tn a purelS literary sphere and believe de him n" ialue,irc II say that llfe interested hum prlnarilv in iis relation tn literature. He WAS of opinion that Goethe made | mis- ttkc m icNoting so much of his energy to ,,-icniiil, pvf>rii>. and that Iii. Inter works l tparticularly Elective Atiiniiics and hi> second part of Faust lwcre much m iurcd by the influence al his scientific 1 theories These limitations. however. which were inhcren, ln l.ongtcllow,> char actcr. proved T source et strength rather than ot wcaknrss. Fhe fact that he-~a> neither m impassioned rhapsodi~t nor a profound, d,philosol her should not be quote d
 in di>pAragemcnt ef the bcaut ful sif,s which he did possess. For k indeed noble. mission to cNalt and disnih ,hc common emotions of common humanity. and his grcatc>, glory s in the ttlc in,cn icd by his dc,raciors: The Poet et the Multitude.