New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-18

Nv dear frien1' Won should have had this letter
and these messages by the last steamer; put wien
and three months had ended his earthly nie, lou
can never sympathize with me (; you can never KNOW
how much OF me such young child can taNo aMaS I
| few weeks ago | accounted myself very I,c Ii
man and now The poorest of ali. What would 1t
| avail to tell you anecdotes of sweet ana wonaer
full boy such as we solace and sadden ours ives
with at home every morning and EVENING" From
perfect health and happy a life and as happy M
uences ever child enjoyed, ne Vas nnrrlcu WE W.
OF nv arms in three short days by Scarlatina we
have two babes yet-One girl OF three years. anu uo
girl of three month and week but promise IKE
pleased myself that one day | sho1ld SEMI 10 you
this Morning Star of mine and stay at home 50
the Invisible and Untold to inquire what relations
to my departed ones yet sustain I1dlan, the P1oI
| LIuian, means ut home by day ana oy night iou
| too will grievc for u.s. alar
| Carlyle to Emerson. ,
| This is heavy news that you send me; me
| heaviest outward bereavement that can beiall
| man has OvCTtaken you. Your calm tome vi
| deep, quiet sorrow. coming III on the rear
of poor trivial worldly businesses all Runctually
dispatched and recorded too, az II the Higher ana
Highest had not been busy with You, tells me SAD
| tale. What can say in these ca'esT Ihere Is
nothing to he said-nothng but what the wiz sou son
of lshmaci, aud every thinking heart, from OF Qiu
have learned to say God is great lie Is terrlDie
and stern; but We know also He Is good - hough
| He slav me- yet will trust III Him" Your Drlgnt
little Bow chief of your posse here below, -
rapt away from yOu but of very truth ne ~ WIN
God, even as we that yet live areIand snrcy III tie
way that was beat for him, and for You, ana LOT
all of us. Poor Lidan Emerson, poor Mother
o her have no word. Such poignant, nnspeftk-
Mother bcreft of her child. The poor sparrow IN
the bush affects one with pity, mourning LOT rs
Young; how much more the human SOU o, t In1
Friend! cannot bid her be of comfort; Tor there
is rs yet no comfort May good influences wa,ch
over her, bring her some arrangement AZ we
Hebrew David SAID. We shall go TO hliii' NC VIII
not return to u.s."
hc caIT1,, 4 !. Don 2(,s,, 9uII S,2
abotf ne tIlup % STcrIup's departure |
came Acct: some two weeks after hal heard Of
his arrival these Shores lie has been TWICE mere
nj considerable lengt-thc second time all night |
He is a genial. innocent. simple hearted man. OF |
much natural Intelligence and goodness, with an ar
of rustIcitv, yrrarity, and dignity wtha which IN
MANY WAYS appeals to one. The good Alcott; with |
his long lean face aud figure with his gray worn |
temples and mid radiant eyes, all bent Oh saving |
the world by return 10 acorns and the golden age;
he comes before like kind of venerable Don |
QuIxote, whom nobody can even laugh at without |
loving.
Emersoa to carlyle
As for AlcOtt, you have discharged your CON
science Of him mantuliy and knigbtly; absolye
you well. He Is great man and was made
for what ~ greatest, but | now fear that he naS
already touched what best ne can and through his
more tnan prophets cgotisln, ana the absence OF
all useful recOncnng talents. will bring nothing %
pass and be- but a voice III the vi derueSs. As you
do to have seen IN him his pure and noble
intellect. | fear that 1t lies under some new and
denser clouds.
CARLYLE 10 Ernerson.
What You say OF A lcOtt seems TO me altogether
II
ielcctual Tegion-If that bc The Highest though in
thar too Their are many stages wherein man can
believe and discern for himself without need 81
help from any other and even IN opposition 10 all
o hers; but consider hlm entirely unlikely
to accomplish anything considerable, except
some kind of grabbed, semi-pervcrse though siiil !
mauful existence of ms own; winch
indeed is no despisable thing; His more
than prophetic cgOtIsIn. alas yes /. Is OF such
material that Tncblld Ercmltes, Sect-foundcrs, and
all manner of cro~suaucd fauatIoal monstrosites
have fashioned thcmrelyes-in very high, and in the
withal are a class do not like. No truly great man
from Jesus Christ downward, a. o'tcn say, ever
founded "a Sect mean wIltully intended founding
verse who thinks "he can swallow II ALL who Is
not doub aud trebly happy that he can keep 1t
nom swallowing him! On the whole, sometimes
hope We have now done with fanatics aud ago
nl,uc 20, urc-makers IN tins poor world; u VIII be
an Ifnrn-c improvement The past: ana the - New
Ilea,' "A, Aicott calls them, will prosper greatly
the better on that account. The old gloomy Gothic
clihcdrals wrrr good; but the great b.ur Dome
thar hangs over ali Is better than any Cologne one.
o the whole, do not &C. the good Alcott word of
al, tbi,; but LIT HIM love me as lac can ana live on
vegetables m peace; n !, hylug partly on Ycge-
tables, will continue 10 love hun!
TIE SAD AND SOLITARY TENNYsoN.
carlyle 10 EiHsr'OH
To-day ! get answer out Attrrd IrunY-on; all |
i night on tnat side. MoKon informs me that TIE
Russell BOOKS aud Letter arrived duly and were
duly fOrw .IIcl and safely received: uay, IurthcI,
that Ichnysun l. now IN Town. and mean, & come
and see me OF TINS latter result | shall hc very
Glad Alfred ~ one at thc few British or Foreign |
Figure, IA not increasing number think! who are
and remain beautiful 10 mel tn" human soul,
some authentic approxlm ,tIon thereto, to whom
your own soul can say, Brother. However, doubt
hc vii not come hr often skIpS me IN these brief
visit. to Town; skips everybody indeed. being a
IN an element OF glopm,-c rryiug IL blt of chaos
about him. in short, which ho Is manufacturing INTO
Cosmos!
Alfred il the son of a Lnconshirc Gent cman
Farmer think; indeed, you sec IN ms verses that
he is native OF "moatcd gran yes and green. fat
ASSURES not Of mountains aud their torrents and |
Afn lIp u1 bIa gf an al !
for tine Law or Church, being master OF a small !
annuity ms Fathers decease he preferred CLUB
BIN with his Mother and some SIS crs. 10 live uu-
promote aud write Poems. In tins WAY. he lives
still, here now there: the family always with
reach OF London, never in 1t he himself making
rare and brle visits. lodging In some old comrades
rooms. | thiak he must be under forty. not much d
under il. One Of the hncst-looang men III the
world. 4 great shock of rough usty-daTk hair; !
bngh-laughing hazel eyes massive aquilinc face :
most massive yet most delicate; of sallow brown
co ,plcXlon, almost IndIau-looking; clothes cyni-
cally loose, Precautionary -smokes infinite to-
bacco HIS voice IL musical metallic for loud /
laughter aud piercing wall aud all that may lie
teous: | do not meet In these late decades such e
company over ppe!-Wc shall see what he VIII q
grow TO- lie Is often uuwell; very chaotic-his q
way ~ through Chaos ard the BotOmleSs aud
Painless not handy for making out many miles
upon. % Paper9
"IF ALMOST ALL BOOKS WERE BURNT" =
carlyle 10 Emerson, 1916.
grow TO care about an astonlshiugly small NUM- o
Der of things ~ tunes turn with mel Man, all men
noises from the teeth outwards; the inner meaning
of them-of them and of me. poor deylls-rcmainiug L
shut buried forever II almost all books were
burnt (fny own Land next the cOll) | sometime. in
my spleen feel as if IT really would be better with us
Certainly could one generation OF men be forced To
1--we without rhetoric, babblement hcaTsay in short
with the tongue well cui out of them altogether
their fortunate successors would lind II most I'M 4
proved world tO start upon! For Cant does lie piled
ON rs high the zenith; an Augean Stable with -,
the poisonous confusion piled 50 high; winch. sim n
ply II there cOuld be nothing said would r
mostly dwindlc like summer snow gradually about 10
lis bnslness. and leave ny free u eyos again