The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-15

uaVeuer. confined 10 no direct route, and pOt
ting forth prepared to take his pleasure by the
way. Mr.. Hubbard leads us to the musty tehe.
ment near old ST. Pnnoras Church, In London,
by way OF Concord. Mass. For Shelley, to Mr..
Goodwin. naturally suFrosts Emerson. They
were 80 different And each. by tho way. was
twice married. Now Mr.. Hubbard calls Emer-
son master and is prepared to match his admit
ration for the Sage Of Concord against that Of
any other, six days and nights together" But
with sorrow he thinks that he secs the masters
limitations:
Emerson looked upon Beautiful Truth a. an hon.
ored guest. He sdored her, but 10 was with the adora-
ton Of the intellect He never got her tag In Jolly
chase Of comradery nor did ho converse with her.
soft and low. when only the moon peeked out from
behind the silvery clouds, and the nightingale lie
tened. He never laid himself open to damages.
or course this may not have been entirely the
fault Of Emerson. The New England tempera-
mont and environment must not be forgotten
and neither seem to BIO conducive to amorous
and quast-illicit conversations carried on. soft
ana low, to the light OF the moon and tho music
OF the ~nightinGale-and with tho contingent
possibility OF damages In the distance. No.
We would rather DO inclined to picture O New
England Philosopher as dallying. even with
Beautiful Truth, only in the most staid and
decorous manner. We imagine that he would
leave his rubbcrs on the piazza and sit
deeently in the front parlor, at q safe and roa-
sonable distance from the damsel. and with.
perhaps, q jug Of hard cider on the table, with
which to COOL his blood and quicken his intelli-
genco. And always within hearing of tho pre-
monitory cough by which the folks would lot
him understand that the interview was not to
DO prolonged unduly.
1t ia. however. quito possible that Mr.. Hub
bard did not think Of these things, though he
freely admits that both Shelley and Emerson
might have been very different had they been
otherwise-or words to that effect:
In tho Poetic sweetness, gentieness, lovableness
and beauty OF their natures Emerson and Shelley
were very similar. In Q Ike environment they would
have done the Same things. A pioneer ancestry with
its struggle for material existence would have given
Shelley caution; and o noble patronymio. fostered by
the state. lax in its discipline. would have made
Emerson toss discretion TO the winds.
This opens up q truly fascinating and prac
tically illimitable field for speculation. A field
in which. the further we wander, tho moro con-
WINGED do we become that man 10 but o miser-
able puppet In the hands of destiny-a mere
sport and playthinR Of the gods-which has
been pointed out before. Think, for example, Of
the glorious tales Of adventure-of love and
battle and the perils Of the deep-we might have
had. II only some fomaloa ancestor of Mr.. How.
a bonovmoon tr,n With , nirsto 20 Tho
| snan,.h Mo,n, Ana Inv ..,,lv 80 WIGHT nave
| hi f1.d thinos IN ,nch vov that Mr. Richord
Watson Glider had written light and amusing
farce-comedies for Mr.. Augustin DAILY, instead
Of being, as no 10, o serious and industrious
builder Of the lofty rhymel
All this 10, however. q depression, and does not
bring us any nearer to the homo Of Mary Shelley.
It was not o happy home. and 30 we may well
be ~1ratefnI IN Mr. Huhb,rd for thot littIa
iaunt In Concord NV the vay. He tells
the r,.to,d tol. NJ Marv,a ,orrov, ana noor
H~arriet,a fate with sentiment nnd a eentIo
.1o,uonc. mt a, q. not :. +h,nt 80,
ovsr Witch tha moaern reaaer caro-. 70 I,reor
Thu dav Tor what prof Freeman ono. apmmod
nm aa "Cbatter About HarrIet" has. nerhans
gone nv. and we Law down Mr.. Hubbard,a Vol.
umo with the abiding tbouQht that tbinga
might have ,nrned ont vsrv difyersntlv r. onIv
shelley had noasessed that "pioneer ANCESTRY
with ita struoole for material eYistence" In
which case. of oourse. be might NOT have been
sbeIlev. Rut that IN a'detaiI'
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