Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-24

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continually expec,sd To do, rather than for
friend and disciple Of John Morley he be.
ionged 10 that pitiable school Of Positiyists
OF which Harrison 10 one OF the best known
and loudest expounders. As one of the
founders and proprietors OF the Fortnight.
W ReUiew he gave It's positivist, or aenostio
or materiaiistic, character to that able Eng
lish monthly and IL wss, through him John
Morley became its editor after 9eoyee II.
Loves left ~ His chief literary works,
besides numerous critical reviews and
papers, were Llf, and Times OF ~. Ber.
nard, two volumes In the English Men
OF Letters Series, and The Service OF Man,
adefense OF Pos!tlvism against Christianity.
He Intended writing an exhaustive his
tory Of France and q number OF great
work. But through all his lie bis In
tonuons were always much more and
greater than his accomplishment he vas
too comfortable financially to do great
things In literature.
Mr. Amos Bronson Alcott was another
one OF whom very much moro was ex-
pccted than he ever realizsd. Ho was one
Of the original Boston transcenden tslist' /,
but wSile men like ii awthorne and Alcott's
most intimate friend Emerson, outgrew
this ism TO q greater or less extent, he never
did. He died on March 4.b, In his eighty
low cemetery, at Concord, between the
graves of his two friends, Thoresu and
Emerson, and quite near that OF Haw-
thorpe Perhaps In his long life he exerted
as great an influence by his "conversa-
tions " as he ould have done had he writ
| ten any books, He is said to have kept a
minute diary or journal from his youth ur,
| filling more than fifty quart0 volumes.
should these ever be published they will
bo the most interesting aud important work
| OF the Kind ever published 10 this country.
Two day after his death, on March 9th
his gifted and most estiDable daug hter
Louise May Alcott followed him. Her life
| had been just tho opposite OF her father'A She
| Is said to have taken little interest In his
| mystic coptemplative philosophy and
| led a very busy life, divided between her
| household cares, " hich were heavy, and her
| literary lsbors. Oi the latter every Ameri.
can knows. Through her delightful book q
| tor young people she exerted most whole
| some aud widespread influence upon
| American lie. The "Little Women" was
| perhaps the most popular book OF Its time,
| aoolt twenty years ago. In the first three
| years OF itA publication no fewer than 81, 00C
| copies of 1t were sold. Her works are still
| az popular as ever, and among the best
| Sunday school literature we have. Miss
| Aicotf, 10y the way WAS native OF this state,
having eeen born at Germantown 1882
Two days aitsr her death, on March 9th,
another American writer, who quarter o
a century ago was one OF the most popular
and fsvorite magazine writer's In the
country, passed away In the person OF Ger
David Hunter Strothers, better known q
"Porte Crayon." Under this pen-nsme ht
wrote, before the war, series of deli zhifu
sketches OF Southern life for Hdrper'
Magazine, illustrating them with his owI
yon sketches. He was the highest paiI
contributor the msgsz'ne had up to tina
time employed. Though Virginian, b.
took up arms for the Union at tn
beginning OF The civil war, and served will
distinction to It's close, on McClellan's stat
and later a. chief OF staff OF his cousin, Gen
David Hunter. But the war was fatal t
his literary career, as since then he wrot
nothing OF note, and died in retirement 9
his homo Ia Charleston, w. Va, almos
unknown 10 the present generation c
| readers.
| hope l will not soon have chance I
continue this catalogue OF deaths. Ou
literature has not so many first class writer
that 1t can Hii0id to lose two or three ever
: month. UNCAs.