The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-01

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 .D;dnt yos humhae sAose sullews nicely the csAer nightf
 Rnersoa esjoysd seiiing this slssy vsry macA, q n iilnsfztiea q Engiish char acser. He s&id
 all vas usasziy impossible for tAis yonng man to compseAend the com- plaisance which vould restrain me. h our ssciai inas.coarss. iron ssins tAs dissoc1ing-hni1e~
 Enersoas liheary vas . vosssAop. h which all the tools vere ineeodea in1 uss ss4 rcs Gr< sAos. If h loved tho hean- sifnl he did not cAoose to saezioce eGec- tiveness q in shrine. TAe rude sfm- piicity o( the book-shsavea and tke lhzead-base exterior efmAny od the books, ollea iostkne oehefs h new and gandy livesy, Wus . 6eQuenf maslR of com mess amoag his 6iendA and, l suspect, os occasioa1 feasle prossss from come q the more esxkesic membeEs of his house hold. He. once lent me ose q tAess precious volumes, copy of the Cd. " Whsn l returned t. atter reading It, made some remark about the mixture oi myth and history in tAe book making is dificcls to know what portion of 1t b b. ieve. He laughed heartily, saying : You remind me of the man vho, after reading Gullives's Travels" said to the friend vho had lent him the book, that the work vas one c! great inter est, but that there were some state neuts in it to which he could hardly give cre- dence."
 once met Hawthorne at Emersou's . house. had been invited to little tea entertainment, and Hawthosne, not know- ing that any visitors were expected, had dropped in to make casual visit Whea l arrived Emerson told me that HAv- thorne vas there. Bct l will not tell him that you are here, or he would run away st once and want 10 intr0duce yor." Presently Ha~thorne saunsered round the corner ot the house. aud was upon us before he suspected his danger There was no help for tt then, % VI were introduced. Just aa that moment some ladies came out of the house and dis traced oss attention for a few seconds. When ve turned round, Hawthorne was gone.
 4There," said Emerson, "l knew how 1t would be: he b : slipped of The sight of stranger irighsens him away at ouce."
 l One day, when was calling upon Emerson, he drew my attention to n unbound volume of poems he had just received from New York, over which he vas in raptures. It was called "Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman "l have just written od post-haste 10 thank him, nc said. It is really a most wonderful production, and gives promise of the greatest things, and Il, as he says, it is his first writing, it seems almost incredi. ble. He must have taken a long run to make suche jump as this"
 He read me some passages, raising his eyebrows here and there, remarking that 1t was hardly . book for the seminary or parior table. Shortly after this went of to the Wachusett mountain, where remained two months. On my return to Concord again mel Emerson, who vas still enthusiastic over Leaves of Grasx" "I wrote at once," he said, "a letter to the author, congratulating him"
 "Yes," l replied, read it."
 "How1 vhens Have you been to New York;"
 7vs6sse."
 "In the New York Zyi5sse? No, no impossible he cannot have published 1t he exclaimed, with much surprise. 1 assured him that 1 had read 1t . few weeks before in that paper.
 "Dear dear P he muttefed, 'that was very wrong, very wrong indeed. That was merely . private letter sf congraiula- tion. Had intended 1t for publicaiion should have enlarged the but very much-en enlarged the but" repeating en- larged the but" twice and biting the but" of with his lips, and for . mo- ment looking thoughtfully out of the window. Then he continued his talk about the book, the impression 1t had made on mems minds, the future of the author, etc. This led him to speak uf [ little incident which occurred to him is Boston. He vas calling at a friesd's house where there were . number oi ladies present, when . saaid and dieni- ted divine vas anoounced. Afles th< 6st grestings, the rsvsresd gsaslemaa approached the ceasEs-tabae asd took up book which vas lying oa it. Thii proved to be Leaves of Csass." 1 "Ahw exclaimed the gsntleman "Lsaves of Crassr ! have heard this often spoken o6 but ssvss before met with . copy. And hs forthwith began declaiming passagel from t h . load and sonosous voice, yst with an the ingenuous sim piicity of Bishop Hebss-awfsl, horihc things, fit only to be whispered in the most secret recesses of the cloistes og the closes. Hints were of 10 avail, and the situafisu became most embas- rassing beSose they could coevince him that " Leaves of Csass vas rot a book to read aloud bsSose party of ladies- l Emerson had . most benign manner, 1 end q Anne a~u,n~& ~hx%1annrun nnfrsrS