The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-27
Wrtneyt for The ArkdnsaW TFaueIer.
 AMONG HOME AUTHORS.
A Chaplet of Criticism.

Percy Whipple died
 His was lite of genteness and grace.
 "Strong sense and fine social powers" were the noted characteristics of Matthew Whipple, his father Lydia, daughter of the mentally brilliant Gardiners of Maine, was his mother and first instructor
 To our nations Declaration of Independence is signed the name of William Whipple He was New Hampshire patriot of the old school. An uncommon case where lineal descent improved in quality, now confronts
 As one of the historic fifty -sx William Whipple is remembered for his stately mien his powdered wig, his imported silver buckles his superine great and small clothes and, chiefly for his fame us autographic defiance of George the Third.
 Edwin Percy Whipple (born at Gloucester Massachusetts in the second week of March, lsl9l outranks his ancestor in scholarly attanments and lsbors; but, it must Dc confessed, Williams hand writing easier to read. It may, aso be truth fully said that this extremely rebeous CO., partner of John Hancock and other pledgers of their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor, never wore British regular made half hose.
 He was long on silk stockings, because Gin the days that tried mems shanks snuff -coored brooches only covered that portion of dignifed human anatomy between the knees and kidneys Blame me not, here, for injected pun or badinage afore- thought
 What Edwin Percy Whipple lacked in broad cloth or shoe buckles, he more than made up in brains
 His education, so well begun by his mother, was finished at the English high school in Salem Articles, of no mean merit written in his four teenth year, printed in local newspapers At fifteen he became bank clerk. About 1887 he went up to Boston finding employment in the office of firm of merchandise brokers. He soon atterward appointed superintendent of the Merchants Exchange news-room. As & leading member of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, and ofts then celebrated debating club the future essayist displayed "quick intellectual fence and repartee"
 In 1S40 he came before the public as a satrical lecturer. His pen analysis of Macaulay which was published in the Boston MiScellany February 1S43, vastly increased his reputation among men and women of culture. Macaulay has, himself said of Edwin Percy Whipple that his critical essays were "the subtest, ablest and dearest in expression" that he had ever perused and Miss Milford thought, and most amiably wrote, that they "would bear comparison with any of their class in England's letters" Acuteness and nice discrimination revealed in Whipples dissections of our standard authors. One of Americas most popular lecturers, for a period of time which heightened to nearly half century, he won and held the approbation that is seldom SO notably deserved.
 If this "thoroughly honest man" (so named by his loyal friend, the poet Whitter) had only pub lished the single picturesque essay on "Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style" his just celebrity would have been firmly established How luminous are his pictures of great Ameri- cans massive, potential intellect To read Whip pie, either between the lines, is fascination enthrallment. To quote him, in brief, is always