The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-09
LONGFELLOW AS POET AND
 MAN.

The Longfellow centenary has un- locked store of "reminiscences of the poet.
 He is described by writer in the Boston Globe as rather below the av- craze size of American men, but of g. graceful figure and distinguished pres ence. He was lively boy, with chest nut hair, blue eyes, a delicate complex ion and rosy cheeks; sensitive, impress sionable, impetuous, often inpatient; quick tempered, but as easily ap- peased; kind hearted and affectionate- the sunlight of his home.
 As youth he was graceful, fond of dancing and music, high minded, prompt and industrious. Injustice or deceit he could not brook. He was very quick motioned, almost nervously Sp
 It was not until later life that he bore that extremely picturesque ap- pearance that makes hisportraits seem almost idealized. His white hair and beard were "as fine as spun glss."
 He was most particular in his attire. At Bowdoin he was looked upon as somethhing of a flop. An English vis- itor write
 He was dressed very fashionably- almost too much so, a blue frock coat of Parisan cut, a handsome waistcoat, fultless pantaloons, and primrose col ored kids set off his colpact figure"
 In later years his costume for the street was distinguished by long blue cloth cloak, similar to those worn in Spain.
 Even as lad he disliked noise or vi- olent sports, though he engaged in swimming, fishing. ball, kite flying, coastirg and skoaing His elder broth CT was fond of the gun, and Henry ac- companied him to the woods on little excursions, but one day he came home with tears in his eyes, fgrieved because he had shot a robin. He never went gunning again.
 He was fond of walking, or rather of strolling, but engaged in no athletic pastimes. At Bowdoin he traced his image on a closet door, and every night fought that in pantomime for ex- ercise. Although fond of the sea shore, he generally managed to escape yacht ing parties and similar excursions when at his summer home at Nahant.
 A parental suggestion that he choose { a profession, preferably the law, was very distasteful to him, and toward the close of his college career he wrote his father: II most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature; my whole soul burns most ardently for it."
 He was the soul of loyalty and honor and public spirited citizen. In more than one private conversation on the civil war 1t is noted that This patrio- tism blazed."
 In his dealings with publishers and others Longfellow was a careful busi ness man, while his judgment at times in withholding his work from publica- tion until the proper moment was al- ways sound
 On the Sunday following his return in 1929 from Europe, where he had been for three years, he attended church at Portland, and there he saw Miss Mary Potter, whom he had known as child.
 He was so enamored of her beauty that he followed her home. As soon as he reached his own home he implored his sister to call with him at the Potter house.
 The courtship and marriage followed in due time. Miss Potter was very beautiful, with dark hair and deep blue eyes.
 Their brief but happy married life terminated in her death at Rotterdam, November 20, 1885. The young hus- band plunged into a winters study at Heidelberg to forget his grief, which wore away but slowly.
 The historic mansion in Cambridge where Longfellow secured lodgings in 1887, after he became professor at Harvard was very dear to him in after years, The house was large one, and already Edward Everett and Jared Sparks had lived there; afterward, when MT. Longfellow was keeping house in it, the maker of the dictiona- ry, Joseph E. Worcester, shared 1t with him, for there was room for each fam fly to keep 9 separate establishment, and even a third could have found in- dependent quarters.
 In his busy years as a young and hard working professor at Harvard when he was literally "toiling upward in the night" for he wrote often into the small hours-Longfellow sense of sorrow for the loss of his wife gradual ly wore away.
 Tn 1899 he had met in Switzerland Miss Frances Appleton, daughter of Nathan Appleton, a wealthy Boston merchant. She took a sympathetic in terest in his work, and gradually so filled the void in his heart that six years after their first meeting she ac- cepted his proposal of marriage, and on July 13 1S49, became his wife, at the age of twenty-five. He was then thir ty-six
 Longfellow was always approachable. The fact of his living in house which the public was in the habit of visiting as relic of the Revolution was not without his effect upon his accessibili- ty.
 All through his later years Craigie House was open to all kinds of visitors. Strangers from all lands anne with let ters to Longfellow, and to most of them he extended his welcome in their own tongue. The poet , JoulHdl abounds In humorous references to strangers who came to see him or stopped him on the street.
 Although Longfellow's earlier poems were sold for trifling sums, the product of his brain brought high prices in his later years.
 When Sam Ward, the brilliant and eccentric lobbyist, art critic, traveller and wit, heard "The Hanging of the
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