The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-31

7 for certain delightful fairy tales which
he wrote many years ago; the children
/ moved in an enchanted land of magma
ton.
Result of "The Scarlet Letter"
OF the experiences following the APP
pearance of THE Scarlet Letter the
biographer says:
/ 1T was a novel experience for the man
who had become accustomed to regard
/ ing himself as the obscurest man of let
! ters in America. Lonely, yearning Ia
/ dies came enthusiastic young men
melancholy sinners The little red
/ house was not literary Mecca merely
I but a moral one The dark-brown,
kindly. smiling author received them all
courteously; he was invariably courte-
Gus. L would not have a drunken man
potter than 1, he once answered me.
when 1 asked him why he had returned
the salutation OF a topper. VI hat counsel
he gave to those who came TO him as
TO father confessor of course / know
not; but later, when / used TO sit in his
office in the Liverpool consulate. some
times heard him speak plain truths to
the waits and strays who Sfifted in
there; and truth more plain, yet be-
slowed with more humanity and broth
eriy purpose. have never heard since.
Anecdotes of Famous Men.
There are anecdotes of Emerson. of
Alcott Of Herman Melville. of James
4. Fields, of Kossuth. of Story, OF
Concord. and England and Rome all
told with touches OF humor and a de-
scrlptive faculty worth having Speak
ing of me Of the refrigerator hotels
In which the family dwelt when in
Rome the writer says in a comicaI
aside:
:. o. Rome. my country. City Of the
SOUR
---oh. Byron. were you an Esquimau?''
Memories of Italy.
1t was on a walk along the Appian
Way with the boy Julian that Haw-
thorne met that calf which figures in
THE Marble Faun." OF another walk he
says
Tine huge green mound OF the Monte
Iestaccio was at that period
pierced b. numerous cavities. in the
dark GOODNESS OF which stores of native
wines were kept. and they were sold 20
customers at the rude wooden tables in
front of the excavations in TASKS
shaped ike large drops Of water. pro-
tected with plated straw When. now
tANlA III view 1Otk OF OIner cities mere
! 90 10 an Italian restaurant / always
call for one of those TASKS. and think
as / drink it's contents OF that afternoon
with my father"
Another incident Of their life in Rome
is rather interesting.
Toward the close of this first season
in Rome the Bryants came TO town.
and the old poet. old in aspect even
then. called on US: but he was not a
childly man, and we youngsters stood
aloof and contemplated with awe his
white Merlin beard and tranquil but
chilly eyes. Near the end of May.
William Story invited us TO breakfast
with him. The Bryants and Miss Hos
mer and some English people were
there. and + understood nothing of what
passed except the breakfast. which was
good. until at the end OF the session
my father and Story began to talk
about the superstition as 10 Friday.
They agreed that of course. ii was
nonsense; but that. nevertheless. il did
have an influence on both of them 1t
probably has an influence on everybody
who has ever heard of 1t.
And these extracts are taken at ran
dom from n book OF nearly 400 pages
CNew York: Harper & Brothers.)