The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-31

she must be sealed volume. Yet, con- sidering this, it is wonderful to find how large her audience is, and how it in- creases rather than diminishes. The !" Margaret Fuller Societies." are found all over the west. and the late biography of her by Colonel Higginson, has had 90 sale as to be an index to the interest felt in this noble woman. She had elemental power-the rarest of gifts-and owed little to assimilations. Instead of sticking herself full of bor- rowed qualities "-to use Mir. Haw- thorne's euphonious words, her character fIom within outwards.
 As I said, Mir. Julian Hawthorne sowed the dragons teeth when he published this paragraph. Miss Sarah Freeman Clarke wrote the letter regarding it, from which believe quoted in late number of the 7imes-Dem0eraf. James Free man Clarke made it the subject of pa- per in the Lsdebendeaf which was copied in the local press of Boston. Julian Hawthorne replied in letter to the ZyAnserf6t, in which he said:
 When my mother was preparing her husbands journals for publication it was her habit frequently to consult with me as to the propriety of admitting or ex- ciuding certain passages and among others, the above extract came up for consideration. She had copied it out ready for publication, but it was finally decided to suppress it, for Margaret and Mrs. Hawthorne had been well &C., quainted, and the formers conduct to- wards the latter had frequently been marked by deficiency of good taste, to say the least, so that this might have been construed in the light of a revenge taken upon the dead. We concluded, therefore. that it should be published, if at all, only when complete biography was written.
 The biography has now come into ex- istence, and this passage is printed along with 1t. l foresaw, of course, that it would create futtering in the dove cotes of Margaret's surviving friends, and of her later disciples; but did not con. slider myself justified thereby in emitting so sound and searching a bit of analysis. Hawthorne knew Margaret thoroughly, and he has told the exact truth about her. Nevertheless, no one can begrudge Miss Sarah Clark her gallant and truly femi. nine defense of her friend, lately printed in your columns, and with the exception of one passage, l am abundantly willing that it should go for what it is worth. The exception is where Miss Clarke allows her natural good sense and candor so far to be obscured as to assert that Hawthorne, in remarking that Margaret " fell as the weakest of her sisters might" meant to insinuate that the un- fortunate woman was never legally mar ried to Ossoli at all. Hawthorne never entertained such an idea; he was not the man, under any circumstances, to make an insinuation and the language he uses will not bear Miss Clarke's gratuit- ous interpretation. ! fee! less tenderness for MT. T. Higginson, who, through his female organ, has woven this matter into a theory of married isolation" which has sadly perfunctory twang about it MT. Higginson, at all events, is still young enough to have known better. The maj jority of readers will, think, not be consolable that poor Margaret Fuller has at last taken her place with the numberless other dismal frauds who Hn the limbo of human pretension and failure.
 To fitly characterize this letter would require an energy of expression which may we'll be left to pens accustomed to keen sword thrusts. Fortunately, it is not necessary to characterize it. Such writing may well be left to speak for it. self. 1.-the elder Hawthorne's words of Margaret Fuller have shocked his friends, not less do his sons singulariy defiant and bitter words pain those who had re- joiced at the fair promise of his future.
 Latest at date in this controversy comes paper in the Lfteyary Wo,ld by Fred. erick T. Fuller, nephew of Margaret, the son of her brother Richard, and a member of the editorial staff of the Boston 7,aveier. Mir. Fuller's paper presents many extracts from family pa- pers, letters and diary extracts of Mar garet's hitherto unpublished, and also gives this interesting speculation and in- ferences drawn from Hawthorne's writ ings.
 Says Mir. Fuller:
 Can it be, after all, that the lens through which Hawthorne so saw her was distorted by anything awry in his own nature, or that the pencil which SO pict- ured her was not really that of friend?
 
 There are many passages in Haw- thorne's own works, however, which seem to indicate that she may have inflicted such wound unconsciously. in the habit, which was one of her most marked characteristics, of pointing out to her friends and urging them to remove what ever she saw tor thought she saw) in them in conflict with their best possible de- velopmeAt.
 Since the publication of the " Blithedale Romance This real though hardly avowed dislike of Margaret has been no secret to those that loved her-for no evasion of his biographes, and no skilifui engrait- ing of alien characseristics and incidents, can conceal the truth that Hawthorne did < mean Margaret by his Zenobia, and himself by Miles Coverdale-and hardly needed the confirmation which it receives