The Forrest City times., 1894-01-26
Lowell and Longfellow.

The fact that these are the only two Americans who have been honored by the English nation by being memorialized in Westminster Abbey, calls up the recollec- ton Of the great friendship that existed between them.
 Exactly at what time this friendship begun do not know. but it is fact that it lasted for years, and if it was ever dis turbed by any of the petty jealousies which S, m times exist between men of letters, it is not known.
 It is said that whenever one wrote a line, he carried it up for the other to read before he wrote any more. Of course this is not literally true, yet their friend- ship was most intimate, and despite their dissimiiayity in style and composition, disposition and manners, tIere was an
 irresistible something which mutually at- traeted them.
 An acquaintance of mine who knew them both personally gives the following description of them:
 -Longfellow was man of plain man. ners. gentle. shy, refined, sympathetic, and but for his fine face might have been mistaken for an ordinary man. He dressed neatly, but plainly, was genial and hos pitable.
 Lowell was always elegantly dressed, al- most dudishly so: parted his hair in the middle and carried cane. He always observed the most elegant court mSnners, yet his voice and manners were gentle and after the first meeting one felt perfectly at home with him."
 Mir. Longfelow was something of hu morist and used to tell joke upon him. self that ran this way:
 One summer afternoon as he was seated upon his yeranda, he saw plainly dressed, weary looking woman approaching. As she drew near she asked, Are you Mir. Longfellow ?" He replied in the affirma- tive and invited her to take seat. Observ- ing that she looked tired. Yes" she said, live come all the way from home to see yON, l admire your poems so much that have read your EvAeELINE clear through and not many can say that"
 Eyangeline's meeting with Gabriel was taken from a real incident which occurred in hospital in Philadelphia. The inci- dent was known to LongfellOw and & friend. They saw in it material for a good story. They gave dinner party, invited Hawthorne and suggested to him that he might weave it into story. For some reason Hawtborne failed to use it and Lonfellow decided to do so himself So came EvANGELINE.
 LOngfellOw was professor of modern lan- guages in Harvard. and Lowell professor of belles letters. When the latter was sent by Hayes as Minister to England, he re- signed his professorship. His resignation was not accepted, and he continued to draw his salary during his first ministry. When, later, be was sent by Garfield. h's health was declining. and he again offered his resignation. This time it was ac- cepted.
 1t is said that Lowell was, as literary man, first brought into notice in England by speech of John Bright's in which the latter made use of the following quota tion from Lowell: God will send the bill to you" this took like wildfire and Lowell rose at once into popular favor. Oxford University granted Lowell the degree of Master of Letters on account of literary merit and his PRoMETHEUs was one of the pieces cited as proof of that merit.
 Lowell first came prominently into mo- tice in this country through his BIGLow PAPERS, written under the non de plume of Hosea BiglOw. The authorship was not known for some time. and so cleverly was it kept, that Charles Sumner said that it was such pity that the author of the BIGLow PAPERS could not use good En- giish. as otherwise they would be such an addition to literature, and would be so u 'eful in helping to put down slavery. Un the night Mrs. Lowell died. a child was born to the house of LOngfellOw.
 The latter wrote his poem, 1.-The Two An gels" and sent it to Lowell to console him in his sorrow. In return Lowell wrote, After The Burial,' and sent it to Long fellow.
 Thus the lives of these two were closely | united, and 1t seems but meet and fitting that in death they should share the same honors. To Americans it should be a mat l ter of great pride that the Mother country has thus bOnored the worthy sons of her recalcitrant daughters. G. T.