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cords against August 90, "Son g." This
photograph is copy of the time-yellowed
page, the sight of which suggested Mrs.
DORIS poem entitled, -Four Letters,
and was sent her after the publication OF
the verses by DR.. Holmes. The original
is the record of DR.. Holiness birth in the
handwriting of his father, once the domi-
ME of i'm old New England parsonage.
The drawngroom contains some fine
paintings-one especially valued by Mrs.
Dorr as the portrait of her artist daughter,
by that daughters own hand. This IS the
dark-eyed Iulma to whom one OF Ms Yrs,
DORIS finest poems is addressed. The
musical foreign name is Il revival OF one
borne by an ancestress in PARKWAY France.
Mrs DORIS French grandparents He'd
from San Domingo to Charleston, >. y,
where their daughter was won by Will
liam Y. Ripley, the young Nermonterw who
had gone South to seek his fortune. His
girl wife briefly outlived the birth of their
little daughter Julia, but the child was
reared among her fathers kindred-and
the native of South Carolina has given to
Vermont IA most devoted affection.
From the drawing-room we pass
through portere to Mrs. DORIS writing
cabinet. As we enter we face the great
west window looking out upon the Taconi
Mountains and when the sun SINKS be
hind them, its rays stream across the
table and light up II beautiful copy of
Ittenbach's Holy Family on the opposite
walls On II little shelf below this picture
stands velvet-framed photograph OF Mr..
Emerson at the north end hangs fine
Autograph of Mr.. Longtellow; on the
west side of the room we meet the we'll
known likeness of the "AutOcrat," Pro
fessor," and Poet" DR.. Holmes. And
here, among these moderns, stands Nir-
gil's bust, laurel crowned. The parlor,
entered from the study, is CHEEKY with
I intt HnNyapl upI hrip Al rup hIlt one
picture specially fixes the regard, life,
size crayon head in graceful, dignified
pose: the forehead, shaded by waves OF
abundant hair, full and womanly; the
mouth sweet and firm the eyes with a
clear, frank outlook. This is Il portrait
of Mrs. Dorr.
The interest of this plain and simple
home life in the revelation which its ap.
pointment and atmosphere make OF
it's central figure, the writer whose
"Words" to her Country Women, y
poems, sketches, essays, letters are all SO
helpful, elevating and cheering. These
are constantly appearing, either in occa-
sional volumes, or in the periodicals tC
which we look for our best current liter
allure. Some of Mrs. DORIS Centennial
poems, "Outgrown," for example, tc
which Mr.. Emerson gave a place i'll his
"Parnassus, and Mercedes" written OF
the death of the young Queen of spain,
anu dChllONIc'lSt WIN uiItthf\N ~
Alphonso, are the productions to which
Mrs. DORIS earlier admirers will first re
cur: while her later readers delight in
"Friar Auselmo," 1.-The Chamber of 81
lence," and that exquisite lyric which
appeared in the century, for March, 1883
entitled 80 Wind that Blows out of the
West
Mrs. DORIS works, "Sybil Huntingdon
"Farmingdale, and "Lansmcre,' were
successful; but until her book on thu
Bermudas. she had not for some time un
dertaken any sustained prose work Sh'
says, as the years 90 on she cares less anC
less to write "stories,' and is more ant
more impelled to poetry.
HARRIET w. FRENCH.
Baltimore.