New-York tribune., 1901-11-17

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parts wild flower fragrance to the mino' ana
| no, romantic nature may easily be reckoned al
| tho broodine place of fancies which hVed again
I'm the noetic genius Of her SON. Charies Lo"eih
| the father parson OF the fTlnrose ''p'
single minded, pure hearted. man oi siieSies~
gentlest and most helpful piety- lie ~as ui'
close comnanicn and friend of his youngest SON.
and the boys best training he founo in tnen
walks and drives as the pair went ABOUT LIN
country together on the elder Lo"eiis p
arrands As q schooIboy Lowell acquired WIZ
ease goodIy and ever useful quantity oi A1A'n@
| read and delighted in glorious poetry anu u
on his imagination for entertaining tales iOr nS
! admirins mates Then afterWaro WHICH,
Harvard undergraduate. his great happiness "as
/ in books; and he has recorded MS con'ic1o
shared with many other writers-that the
| ter part of every mans education Is tha' "ni
he gives himself His taste. even IN eari1
youth was for the best things in literature an0
while still boy he began his rhymins on gooo
| models.
1 He like most other poets had his Initiative
| or T,waddline period and to this Mr.. Scudd6
has devoted so many serious and laDor1o~
| pages that the most submissive reader Will DC
| disposed to skip. Presently to the young man
| still rhyming and newly determined TO Try Sell
| support in literature there came the transform
| ing influence of lovely girl. Maria " mite "as
! a spirituelle being. in whom sweetness OF chaf-
acter intensity of feeling and lofty purpose
| were joined to the exquisite but fragile physlqus
| so often seen in the New-Esngiand OF those
| davs She was a poet herse1f-a most dellcaee
and minor music hers; and Wlthin hef
burned the fervid longing to do good 10 'le
| world which often comes TO such hdluie @
! Anti-slavery in the early fortes rapiuiS
| growing into cause for which workers anu
martyrs were needed. and to tals cause 'iiis
| New-England Una and her young knIght turheo
with all their strength. During their long en-
gagernent and in the first years of their married
life. IoweIrs writings. dealing partly with h'-
| eratura and partly with the burning ques-
| ton +" waxed amazingly in force and originality
his uncornpromising prose WED in sodierly at
tack with the biting satire of the ruStic Dig
low" We are disposed. by the way. 10 oehe'e
in the truth of the vague suggestion that " hit-
| tier drew the title il not the idea OF a famous
poem from a sentence in Loweifs articie on
Webster in The Anti-Slavery Standard Shau
| NOT the Recording Angel write Ichabod after the
name Of this man in the great book OF DOOM
| Not in everything did Lowell agree with his
fellow workers His connection with Ins
Standard" Mr. Scudder says found him 1noe-
pendent and left him
He was no less a reforIner at the end than he
was at the beginning. but he was connrn1eu IN
his belief that the world must be heaieo ~
degrees. and as a dfSbeHeFer In the
short ci1t to emancipation by way of dISunlon-
so ne was at once a firm believer in radical re-
form hut scepticaI OF ultimate success through
the roofing out of individual evils He fOund
himself among people who were sure or ther
panaC-as He himself in the first flush OF ms
| restless desire activity had been dlSpoSed
under the influence of the woman he loved. 20
attack the evil of intemperance by the method
Of total abstinence. but his zeal was short lived
| He aurearS never to have accepted woman
I suffrage the solution of the problem or So
| cirty and il is doubtful if ut any time ne W'-d
! have given his adhesion To the mode ~ ll-lTHe-
/ diatc emancipation if he had been called on 70
| discuss il. His imagination and ms sense 't
! hunor both prevented him from being a II K
and thin ref0rmer, and he refused TO allow Ms
hatred of slavery To he complicated with pT1c-
| ticaI measures for the reform OF various oLher
| evils which troubled society. 1t was because
he 50 " in slavery the United states the arch
foe of freedom and the fnsidioUS Corrupter OF
national life that he concentrated his reforming
energy upon this evil
| In THE Biglow Papers ne welded weapons
| which were of inestmable value to the aboli-
ZIONIST crusade and afterward to the cause OF
the North in the Civil War; but the opportunity
was Of equal value to the poet an inspiring
impulse 1t fired. fused and polished all his
forces and he will doubt be remembered
longer as the witty and scOrnful satirist OF
great evil than as the neditative poet and essay
ist working upon the temperate themes of nature
and literature
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