The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-10-27
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES


sorrow than the departure of Holmes. He
Is the last survivor of our great New Eng
land group of men and women of letters Of
MS generation, save only one, Mrs. Stowe
With Emerson, Lowell, Lonufellow Whit
tler, Hawthorne, Thoreau, he now recedes
INTO the past. Others who are named he
sides these names Stoddard, Mrs. Howe.
Hisslnson-are of younger generation.
Dr. Holmes has been the happiest and the
ireest OF our singers in verse of our essavists
IN prose; he has been the keenest and tbe
most gracious OF satrists his romances
have possessed the flavor of the New Eng
land air, the charm of enduring human
feeling and the interest of profound psycho-
logic study. There has been none besides
Holmes so ready and fortunate in his
blending of wit and wisdom. He was
musical without artitice in his verse. and
his thought was deep without heayiness
Quick and vivid was the action If his
mind, and he viewed The problems of the
soul and body with an alert and brilliant
insight which brought all his scientific
knowledge into wonderful accord with a
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