The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-11-11

50 interviewer facts and Incidents into the
individual lives OF her subjects as to make
her chapters profoundly Interesting. She
says that her book has grown largely out
Of her work In the classroom Rarely
hes book SO admirably adapted to classroom
study been made SO notably interesting to
the general reader. The volume contains
terse, clear, honest studies ST those men and
women. who have done;s most tosraise the
standard Of literary work iMthe United States:
ana
while the reading romancists mentioned are
1ryinE$ Hawthorne. Thoreau. and Unveils;
and the poets noted bryant LengfelloW,s
/ Whittier, Poe, Holmes, and Lowell. w. p.
Claiming represents the work Of theologia ana,
Willie the transcendentalists are also given a
full chapter Each biograp hical sketch is ac-
Ecompanied by q critical estimate Of the per-
sens work, which bears no mark Of fads or
favoritism. The transcendentalists organized
q club at Brook farm in 1886. It attracted
Emerson, Charming, Hawthorne. James Free
man Clarke Alcott, Ripley, George William
Curtis, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller.
Elizabeth Peabody. Longfellow. Charles A.
Dana, and many others. It was novel COM
pany Of visionaries, whose ayowed object
was ito reform the prevailing philosophy
Of the day, and whose theory was that all
questions Of the day should not be submitted
to scholars, but to the common sense Of the
of his entry at Brook farm. He says -
- intend to convert myself into milk
maid this evening; but pray heavensthat Mr..
Ripley be moved to assign me the kindliest
cow in the herd. otherwise i shall perform.
my duty with fear and trenabiin g. - Being
q milkmaid, or, as he later expressed it, "a
chambermaid to COWS and pigs soon lost all
its poetical glamour, and became the verIest
prose to poor Hawthorne; and he writes, un-
der cate Of the 18th Of August :s.1 .1s
Il Joyful thought! In little more than ?
fortnight shall be free from bondage, free
to enjoy nature, free to think and feel. Even
MY custom house experience was not such a
thraldom and WEAKNESS: Oh! labor is the
curse OF the world, and nobody can NEEDLE
with It without becoming hrutihed: T. i
golden months in providing food for cows and
horEes? It is not. sc" 5 .sti IT,.
He pronounced his life at Brook farm Fan
illusion, a masquerade, pastoral, counter
felt Arcadia, In which we men and women were
making a play-day of the years that were
given us to live, in. - - If eyerI have
deseryed,-wkich has not often been the case.
and think never-but If ever did deserve to
be soundlys cuffed by a fellow mortal for se-
cret!y pu ting weight upon some imaginary
social advantage; it must have been while
i was striving to4proye myself ostentatiously
his equal and no more. It was while sat
beside him on his cobbler's bench, or clinked
my Ioe against his in the cornfeld or broke
the same: crust: Of bread; my earth-grimed
hand to his at his noontide lunch The poor,
proud man should look at both sides of SYM
patty like this. NJ ..s III ~ -:tI.
& Hawthorne soon ended such romantic non
sense by. taking wife and settling down to
life's enjoyment. Brook farm soon had a
literary: organ, The Dial. with Ripley, Emer-