Evening journal., 1891-08-13

had entered Harvard college, and In 1s3s
be was graduated II seems to have been
the origiAal plan that Lowell's career
should be NJ the bar, aud he studied NJ
tho Harvard Law school and was admitted
to practice.
Ths BIGIow Papers.
He very soon deserted his blackstone,
however, and at twenty-one, while deeply
in love with Miss Maria White. published
( his first volume OF poems. He married
/ Miss White in 1874 She had great in.
fluence upon his career and made a stro0R
abolitioaist Of him. She died In 1853.
In is4S his name appeared as correspond.
ing editor OF The Anti-Slavery Standard.
In this paper his poems from ls48 to 1s4s
had mostly appeared. But it was IN the
Boston Courier that the first of the cele
brated "Biglow Papers" appeared. They
began in the issue of Jane /, 1840, and
ended In 1slS.
This remarkable satire was the founda
tion Of Lowell's literary fame. It's sue
cess was immediate and universal. The
work consisted Of a series OF poems in the
Yankee dialect, ostensibly written by
Hosa Biglow In the main II was satire
ON the Mexican war but there was scarce
ly any cant or sham particularly prevalent
at the time which did not come in for
keen thrust. In il the then despised abo.
iitionists found champion who turned
the gibes Of enemies into boomerRngs.
which bruised sorely wherever they hit
The Outbreak OF tho War.
In 1874 he produced his second volume
Of poetry, containing thirty sonnets and
thirty-three miscellaneous poems Among
the poems was the Legend Of Brittany"
and amoNg the sonnets were those ad
dressed 10 Wendell Phillips and Joshua II.
Giddings. The next remarkable produe-
tion Of Lowell was "The Vision OF Sir
Launfal," one Of his very best produc
tions. 10 was composed at a single stretch
of work of more than forty-eight hours
duration, during which the poet scarcely
ate OF slept. In 1913 there appeared an
other volume Of poems, and the same year
he published the Fable for Critics" an
amusing hit at American poets in. which
the writer hit himself AS hard as he hit his
neighbOrs
In 1910 a collected edition of his poems
in two volumes was published In 1855,
however, Mr.. Longfellow resigned the pro
fessorship Of modern languages and bellies
lettres in Harvard university and Mr.
Lowell was appointed to the vacant chair
Mr.. Lowell was also the first editor OF The
Atlantic Monthly. The outbreak Of the
war developed Mr.. Lowell's anti-slayery
Rrdor, and there was very soon a revival
Of the famous "Biglow papers" in The
Atlantic Monthly. The papers were as
great success in their way as had been
their predecessors They went straight to
the heart of the people Of the north, Like
the first Of the Biglow series, this slavery
war chapter is destined to last as long as
the history Of the republic is told
His Political Career.
In 1876 Mr.. Lowell was a presidential
elector and in the year following, 1877,
Hayes appointed him to the Spanish mis-.
sion. He remained at Madrid until 1880,
when he was transferred to the Court OF
St. James How brilliantly successful
was Mr., Lowells representation Of the
country in England is still fresh in peo
ple's minds, and was as honorable 30 him
as IL was TO the republic.
His life there, however. was saddened by
the prolonged illness and finally death In
London Of his second wife, whom he had
married In 1851 She was Miss Frances
Dunlap, OF Portland. Me
Mr.. Cleveland recalled Mr.. Lowell in
le9s