The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-23
Nr. Scuddcr's Lowell.

Mr.. Horace Elisha Scudder's james
Russell Lowell. a Biography" Houghton
Minlin a Co; > vols.) completes and ~enlarges
the portrait drawn in Mr.. c. +. Norton's
Letters Of James Russell Lowell" Mr..
Scudder has an intimate knowledge Of the
subject and he has the taste, the tact and
the sympathy Of an accomplished man OF
letters. A formal biography is too often
obScured by excess Of Insignificant detail
or injured by the writer's Partially. Mr..
Scudder j. az skilful in selection as in
composition and he j. no friend Of superla-
tives. He has never acquired the art Of
being tedious: and IL il safe 70 turn 10 any
page Of his hook with the expectation Of
finding something readable. II ought to
be EASY TO write the life o: a man Of action;
il is a much harder task 10 make interesting
the biography Of a man who Mas essentially
a student and a recluse, with n small circle
| Of friends, and did not come much into
| contact with the greater world until COM
paratively late in life. With a pipe OF
tobacco-does he still cling 10 lone jack
and this book, Mr. Lowell could entertain
a very cheerful day in the Poets Resei va
ton Of the Elysian campuses
Mr.. lowell had "A half-whimsical, half
seriou theory that everybody who mounts
| 10 much has a streak Of Jewish blood He
was positive tina Russell was a Jewish name.
He held That all names ending In son
were Jewish, so he would nave found for
X. l. Stevenson "A Jewish instead of the
Celtic ancestry which that author sought
in vain 10 trace Mr. Lowell was Celtic on
the mothers side. His mother was the
daughter OF a native ot the Orknevs. who
became a merchant h. Portsmouth, and
| afterwArd purser ~ the fngate Philadel-
phia On his hlther's side he was ~ a
famous Massachusetts, family whOze Amer
lean founder came 90 Newbury from som
.rsetshire In 1850 The uams ~as some
times spelled Io~le and II is OF used "a he
80 pronounced by MANY Yankees ~ often
n what seems 20 h~ a vulgansm merely
an Inherited but forgotten good usage
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