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 beauty. Wherever the English language is spoken and read there has the great poets in- A 1eace been felt, pleasing, consoing and ssim ilatiug There will be videsprs sd mourning over his departure, but it is good u remember that though he is dead he yet speaks, and will continue to speak for ages to come.
 Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, February 27, 1907. He was the son of Stephen Longfellow, a distinguished member of the Portland bar. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of II, and graduated in 1925. His poetic faculty revealed itself dur ing his college life, and some of the pieces he then wrote possessed in great perfection the characteristics which have rendered him so universal favorite After leaving college he turned his attention to law in the office of his father, but was soon appointed to a pro- fessorship of modern languages in Bowdoin College, and travelled several years in Europe to prepare himself more perfectly for its du- ties. His travels included Spain and Ger many. On his return he published an essay on fsThe Moral and Devotional Poetry of Spain" in which he inserted his translation of Manrique's Spanish poem on the death of his father. In 1883 these productions were published in a volume in Boston, along with translations of the sonnets of Lope de Vega and other poets. The sketches of his foreign travels published in the work called "Outre Mer" were also the fruit of these wanderings. Soon after their pub lication he was chosen the successor of Pro- lessor George Ticknor in the professorship of modern languages and literature at Har- yard. A second visit to Europe and con siderable residence abroad followed this ap- pointment. That be might return more eDi- nen:ly fitted for his duties as professor he visited Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Swift zerland. 'Hypelon," a work combining truths and realities of personal experience and history with much imaginative and TO- mantle illustration, was one of the fruits of this period Of foreign travel. He began his official duties at Harvard in 1887 and contin- ued them until 1851, when he resigned
 It was not until 1889 that any of Longfel- lows poeticaI productions were given to the world in volume-"The Voices of the Night, published at Cam mbridge and contain ing his early poems, some trahslations from the Spanish, and some of the very finest of all the productions of his genius, including The Psalm of Life'' and Excelsior" In ls42 he published little volume of ballads and other poems and few pieces on slavery. ''The Spanish Student" WAS published in I843; "The BeIfry of Bruges" in 1S46; ''Evangeline, 7" one of the most beautiful Of |: s- r., orncored EET1n Seaside and the Fireside,' containing the beautiful poem entitled Resignation" and that on ''The Building of the Ship" In 1851 he published "The Golden Legend, in which the manners Of the times with which it deals are exquisitely sketehed. Saints, scholars, singers, students, doctors, princes, monks, priests, devils, jewellers; the cathedral. the street, and town and coun- try life; the plays of sacred festi- vaIs and miracles, are vividly and beau tifullv pictured. In 1855 The Song of Hiawatha" was given to the world It has been well said that ID this poem the ruder, coarser savage traits of character and Afe are not drawn, are transhgured with the beauty of poetic language and ideal sentl- ment; and the poem Is slngulariy neautlfuI combination of Indian idyls, aboriginal Arabian Nights Entertainments, a Greek Homeric Odyssey of Indian story, with a human being of supernatural endowments, but human heart and feelings. and social, loving life and the growth of an Indian love and the course of an Indian wooing and we'd ding and years of happy domestic enjoyments, with tragedies of life and death lntermingled all exouisitely blended in an atmosphere of imagination and feeling so pure, so eleva- ted. so lovely, with lights so strangely rich and glowing that it is as if an Aurora Bore alis of shining incidents and creatures were passing before the vision" ''Hiawatha" Is said to have had the largest sale of any of its authors poems. h 1858 ''The Courtship of Miles Standish" ap- peared Tales of a Wayside Inn" appeared in 1863, ''Flower-de Luce, in 1866, and New England Tragedies in 1868. It was known that he was engaged on translation of est. The publication took place ID 1s67 with the title ''The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, and filled three massive volumes, including notes and illustrations" His Three Books of Song" appeared in 1872; 'The Hanging of the Crane, in 1871 and Morltnr S7Iusa- mus" in 1875. In 1869 he received the de- gree of D. L. c. from the University of OI- ford and i'll 1874 a large complin entary vote for the lord rectorship of the University of Edinburgh His later works have been short poems published in the magazines Of the country.
 There has been much dispute about Long fellows rank as a poet, and there will be much more until the final verdict of poster 1ty is given In a spirit of calm and just criticism a writer has said of him: Long fellow has studied the principles of verbal melody and rendered himself master ot inc mysterious affinities which exist between sound and sense, word and thought feeling and expression. His tact in the use of lan-
 guage Is probably the chief cause of his suc- cess There is an aptitude and grscetuluess,
 and vivid beauty, in many of his stanzas,
 which at once impress the memory and VIII
 ear and heart There is in the tone of his
 poetry little passion, but much quiet earnest
 ness. His ideas and metaphors are often
 very striking and poeticaL The spirit of Lougfellow's muse Is altogether un-
 exceptionable in a moral point of view. lie
 illustrates the gentier themes of song. and
 pleads for justice, humanity, and partlcular-
 ly the beautiful, with a poets deep conFic-
 ton of their eternal claims upon the instruct i've recognition of man. Another says;
 '.Iongfellows poems as familiar as words of common comfort Yet, unlike these
 words, they have not lost their sense of daily use Nearly every one IS acquainted with
 some of them; most people know many Of
 them every schoolboy reads and deelaims
 them and every pulpit quotes them When a speakers best thoughts struggle for expres- sion he seeks their help; when bereavement comes into family | these poems are moistened with tears His poems touch tenderly on sorrow, for his ! life has been full of affections and friend ships broken by death. His first wife died ! iii a foreign land His second wife died young under very affiicting circum stances | His intimate friends, Hawthorne, Felton, Sumner, Agassiz, departed and left him lonely His poems on bereavement are no affected sentiment, but the sincere language { of bereaved, trustful heart.
 The old mansion in Cambridge in which Longfellow has lived for the last forty years l is a relic of colonial days. It is embraced by
 eIms under which Washington and Lafayette ! stood With poets reverence for old asso- l citations he refused to have the house siteEed l in any respect but filled its antique rooms | with books, pictures, statues and hoEers- 1 One of the old rooms once occupied by wash ington was Longfellow's study. Among the ! objects of interest which wefe to be seen ] there were Coleridges inkstand, from which | WAS ,ossibIy written the Ancient Mariner, ' Tom Moore's waste paper basket and small 1 fragment of Dante's coffin.
 1 The later years of the poets life have been 1 calm and pleasant His home has been the 1 center of a notable circle of friends and ad- l mirers He has had the satisfaction of see | ing his poetry continually growing in the ap- ] preciation of the people of this and other l 1zI. asol 9,,Il l,of ard hnn0F-