The evening world., 1889-06-17
BOSTON'S LITERARY MEN.
A Few Of the Hubs More Noted BGokmnk-
eFs and Writer'S.
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If you cannot be fashionable in Boston the
the next best thing is TO be literary. This
does not imply that you shoul affect news
paper associations. There are a number of
major aud minor celebrities here whose
Pegasus carries them above the unpleaF unity
commercial atmosphere of daily journalism.
These people are received everywhere, and
TO know them is considered a privilege. If
they do not take part in the ultra-gay swim it
is because they have II coterie of
their own equally exclusive. and III
their notion more elevated. Their
Club st. Botolph- represents the
aristocracy of applied intellect just as the
Somerset stands Tor gilt-edCed idleness. In
considering the followers of literature at the
modern Athens one naturally divides them
into four classes namely: the big guns
the younger set, the women writers,
and the hanaels-on. The trst-class
has DR.. Holmes and Mr.. Lowell as its
foremost representatives, and is organized.
malicious persons say, as a mutual admira-
ton socie,y. The second class includes the
rising generation of pen-wlelders, exemplitied
by such men as Robert Grant and John I.
Wheelwright. The third class is filed with
clever scribhlers IN petticoats. who do much
admirable work, and nearly all of whom hate
one another with undying animoSity. AS for
the hangers-on. who form the fourth class
referred to. they are legion. Many of them
are merely satellites revolving about the
brighter lights and borrowing their radiance.
Some write for the 1rdnSCI1p and other pub
l~ications which do not pny for contributions
accepted. Others produce manuscript by
the ream, which they read to patent friends
and submit with neyer-dying hopefulness to
unappreciative editors. If you asked the
women here-not the s%cribbhng ones-who
was their favor re literary idol III Boston they
,-..1l 1,,,hIl,,, - ~ Nv IItnrinpnn Ha
is Just the sort of man that appeals to the
feminine love of the ideal-of a poetic, i'm
aglnative temperament. with beautiful man
ners. winning WAYS and brilliant conversa-
tional powers. He gets the highest prices
for his literary work. His weekly articles in
Hdrper's Bdzdr aIe models of the essay style,
whether they treat of questions soclologlc or
Of frills on pinatores.
gracefully at a dinner or club-mecting Col.
Higginson is excelled by only one man in
Boston-namely: DR.. Edward Everett Hale.
The latter Is the most overworked indlvid-
ual in town. His dress is negligent, because
he never has time to attend TO It,. 10 an APP
peal from n person distressed, however, he
always has an ear TO lend,
4. b. Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic Nonthty.
may be called the apostle of style in htera-
ture. He hns given his magazine a high rep
utation tor is English. Ii is said of his prose
that its quality is more in the manner than III
the substance. He is an agreeable man,
| " ANAig HA'A nv lNNli"S ~
lit c jokes he is SO fond of cracking. lie IS
the particu ar pet OF Bos'on's most fashion,
able woman, Mrs. John i. Gardner, and 1t
is asserted that she sets a Justly Ligh estimate
upon Mr.. A. He is renenth the average
he. ght. md, though forty. five years OF age,
looks almost like o boy.
DIR. Holiness Breakfast Table" essays in
the atlantic gave him his first real fame, aud
his knowledge of medicine, particularly anat;
omy gave HIM employment as n teacher and
lecturer. though he never practised 10 any
extent. He is popular aud IN conversation
bubbles over with wi. In appearance he
resembles nothing so much as n shrivelled
little Winter apple, and no one would guess
from his Appearance what q genius is at the
core beneath that frost-Litten surface. All
the people here lock up to Il m as TO an ora
Gle, and he gives response s richly IN that
capacity.
by thoughtful critics James Russell Lowell
is placed even nearer the summit of the Far
nrssian ACTIVITY than DIR. Holmes. II the
l%atter's laurel crown is No. 81, the author
of the "Bigiow Papers wears II No. IA
He is of n Serious turn, strongly contrasting
with the friNolousnesS OF the Autocrat. He
looks like AMI has the ways Of n cultivated
English gentleman. Fort generation he has
been u ret III Boston. At present he does
little writing, be ny already about seventy
years of nge.
In the highest literary grade here stands
Francl, ParRlnUn, whose great litewO k has
be IL the we | known history OF the French
occupation OF Nor Ii America in many vol
ume-. lie ~ stOU and genial, but NJ happily
such an invalid for some time asst he has
been unable to do any mental labor. He Isl
refined licking man OF about sixty years;
DR.. 4. W. Parsons. the famous translator
of Dante, IL the Oh, sterGeld of the bookmak.
ing set. There is nothing that amuses him
80 much rs turning of sonIets TO pretty
women.
j. 4. Trowl ridge IL the celebrated writer of
boys, stories, 70 that kind at work no
chiefly directs Lis attention nowadays, though
lie has produced II good denl o pretty fair
poetry. He earns quite II large income by hiG
pen, which is employed to no small extent by
the. Youths Companion. He is tall, fresh
looking, with long gray hair, and owns up TO
sixty years or nearly,