Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-17
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sons who distinguish themselves 81 the
|tield of letters, q ever pursue lett rsS
in any form. The prospect 81 COM
Epensationsis 20 small that, III tthisaRe
Eofluxury, With the great need d money,
young men have reaso ~ bs deferred
rom embracing Tho inky profession.
But those who have : strong temper.
Eamental bias toward Is calling are apt
to embrace it Will regard 10 It's
probable or possible rewards. The
TACT must be chat, i passion for lit
erature is felt by ono member 81 b
family, it is not likely to affect any
other member. The writing abitmay5
be SO unnatural to humanity at large
that the contraction Of it is entirely
exceptional. Gifted authors write.
they are prone to say, because they
cannot help it. Perhaps, then, litera-
ture is q compulsory trade, independ-
emit of the will as it is of the recon-
pense. There are certainly very few.
if any, visible inducements to embrace
it.. y = .s5
Cursory consideration OF American
authors, says the Chicago Times, will
sustain this position. Ralph Waldo
Emerson had one son, besides two
daughters, and he is q physician,
though not eminent, and without any
leaning to letters beyond what man
OF culture would necessarily have It
is said that he has no sympathy with
the poetic philosophy and intellectual
ideas OF his father, and has often con-
fessed his inability to understand his
works. His mind is of different cast,
his tendencies arein another direction.
He is devoted to his fathers memory,
but not to his method OF transcend
entail thinking.
Richard Henry Dana, one OF our
earliest poets and essayistsy who lived
to be past ninety, left a son, albeit
lawyer, wrote one book, 1.-TWO Years
Before the Mast" that has grown fa-
nous as an actual record OF sailors
experiences. 1t is still widely read,
though it is more than half century
since, on account of an ocular disor-
der, he made the voyage described
from Boston to California, g. region
almost unknown in 1884. He. too,
is dead now; but the name, Richard
Henry Dana, continues, being borne
by his son, also e. lawyer, who mar
ried one OF Longfellow's daughters,
and by his grandson, product OF
that marriage.
George Bancroft, the venerable his
torian, is generally regarded as child
less, but he has two daughters and
son, who is adecorator and an artistic
house-furnisher in Boston, with much
local reputation in his speciality,
though he has not, and never had, the
slightest leaning to authorship
John Lathrop Motley is said to
have been very anxious for son who
should be renowned in letters, but his
wish was never gratifed. His daugh-
tiers are more interested in society
than in books, though they are highly
cultivated and accomplished.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, lately re-
turned from his greatly-honored
Journey abroad, will have no success
sor to his authorical renown. His
son, named after him, is q conspicu-
Gus barrister, and at present on the
bench in Boston. He went to the war
at the head of a company ia a. Mas
sachusetts regiment, and his father
wrote g. very entertaining article in,
the Atlantic, "My Search after the
Captain" It gave, as l remember,
an account OF how he had gone to the
front to look after his boy, who had
been reported seriously if not mortal
ly wounded. and encountered him
sound and we'll, with the greeting,
Glow are you dad?'
James Russell Lowell, who is
thought to have been largely instru-
mental in preparing the British mind
to receive his friend Holmes with cor.
dial, generous hospitality, had son
years ago, but he died, believe in
Italy, when little mora than an infant.
His only other child, daughter, is the
wife of young Burnett, son of the pro-
prietor of Burnett's cocoaine. The
former owns the celebrated Deerfoot
farm in Massachusetts, and is reputed
to be very pleasant, interesting,
high minded fellow. 1t may seem
somewhat incongruous at first that
the daughter OF Lowell, who is as dis
tinguished in lineage as any citizen OF
the republic, should wed man known
mainly in connection with a hair re.
storarive. But this is only & seeming.
and is beside narrow, snobbish view
to hold in an enlightened democracy.
like ours.
Edward r. Whipple had a. son in,
whom he took great pride and Of
whom he had ardent hopes while the
boy was small. But before arriving
at his majority the youth. became