Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-14

Like that of LOngfellow, the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who died at
 Concord, Mass, April ?, was uneve ent-
 tul, and the pubic interest in both men
 depends altogether upon the apprecia- | ton by the people of work produced in ! studiOus retirement. Their lives pre- sented a moDOtony, and yet the record
 of the most trihing of their dOings and l sayings Is Uf value in the eyes of an
 intelligent public, eager to welcome
 words of wisdom and beauty and
 admiringly grateful towards those utter | them.
 The deceased poet and philosopher | possessed a wide, if not particularly
 numerous, circle of readers. Like those of Longfellow. his works are read prob-
 ably as extensively in Great Britain and the English Colonies as in the United States, and nations are bereaved now that the gentle and unassumiug sage of Concord has passed away.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson was the son of a Unitarian ministe. He was born in Boston, May 25, 1893. During the four years from 1877 to 1891, he studied at Harvard College, where he was gradu- ated. It IS told of him that he was not a model student, in the sense of super lonty in the matter of performing set work, but he was great reader and fol- lowed decided personal judgment in hIs choice of books. Like many other great men, he started life as a teacher, which he did not follow long, but re- inquished for the study of theology an ancestral pursuit, by the way, for it Is recorded there was always q clergy man in tue American branch of the family from the time when Concord was founded, hack Tn the seventeenth cen tury. For three years, from 1879 to IS22, he ministered thought to a congregation m Boston, but resigned when his people and he had grown hopelessly at variance in their conceptions of religion Retir- ing tO Concord, where be lived to the end, NIT. Emerson devoted himself to a life of letters, producing q considerable number of books in prose and poetry and lecturing in this country and abroad as solicited by demand for lis utterances. He never cultivated popularity as a speaker, but his voice was, at one period of his life, heard frequently on the ques- tiOn of slavery. woman's rights and other subjects of current and particular in- terest.
 NIT. Emerson made his first address as a literary man, in 1887, at Harvard, on Man thinking An address on Litter ary Ethics tO the Divinity school of the same university was his next effort, de- hvered year after the first. In lS40 he started n magazine called The Dial, which taught the "trauscendental phil Os phy" at that time greatly exercising the keen wits of New England This publication lived four years. In lS41 Emerson published his Method of Ma ture," "Man the RefuTmCr,r volume of Essays" and several lectures His first in which year two series of Essays were also published. Three years after he visited England, where he delivered a course of lectures on Representative Men" In 1852, associated with w. H Charming and J. F. Clarke, he published biography of Margaret Fuller, who, with A. Bronson AlcOtt, had assisted him in the conduct of The Dial. "Eng- hsh Traits" perhaps the most read of his books, was published in 1856, and "The Conduct of Life" in 1860. These are hls principal works.
 Mir. EmersOn's style Is peculiar, pos sessing affrctatiOns and cOnceits which mar the pleasure of the average roader His poetry IS deeply tender and beauti- ful.