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The
Revolution

Boys says he, this is nothing. Take
out the new sail. If you're lively they
won't catch u.s.
"He wasn't talking 20 deaf ears, and as
for being lively he only had to ask. Our
poor shipmate was stretched out forward,
writhing like lizard, clutching his broken
leg, bowling with pain and begging by all
the saints for a drink of water. But there
no time for that now! We pretended
not to hear him, given over entirely to our
task, unravelling the ropes and attaching
the spare sail to the yardarm, which we
hoisted back into place within ten minutes.
"The captain changed courses. 1t was
useless to resist at sea that enemy which
went by steam and spat shots. The land
for us, and let happen what might!
"We were just outside Of Torresalinas.
We all came from that place and we
counted on our friends. The gunboat, see
ing us make for the shore, ceased firing
They had nabbed, and certain of their
victory they no longer pursued us at full
speed. The beach folk caught sight of US
almost Immediately and the news spread
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His Place
AS a Critic

Lowell's position as critic has had its
devils advocate in DR.. Joseph J. Reilly, who
discounts the principle of intuition upon
which he supposes Lowell to lean in the
matters of taste and judgment. While in
tuition did play large part in his critical
attitude, he had as we'll developed faculty
of reason which gave stability to the fabr.
cations Of his intuition. But he was net
scientific, and it may be added that he had
very little training in psychological per-
ception, though criticism has never actually
depended on either in a trustworthy anal
ysis of literature, which is so wholly Gre
ated out of the substance of the magma
ton and the influence of taste. If he was
largely an impressionist he was on the side
of endurance in literary criticism and as
one of the acutest of contemporary English
critics, himself an exponent of the scientific,
remarks, at is not quite inconceivable that,
even as we still go back past the science
of Kames and Hume to Dryden's impress
sionism, our children may go back past our
science to Lowell"
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began to sow the seeds of his 'Ieav..
Grass all up and down the acreage of b;s
deMoc vistas.
Because of the "Biglow Papers" ws
apt to think of Lowell as primarily, -.
poet of native Yankee wit and nhioso.,
one will not dispute the claim, in sn;,o :,
its vernacular, of The Courtin'n q. :.
purest in all elements of his poetry D..
there WAS quite another side to his nos..
power and gifts, and it expressed or rs.hss
WAS the substance of, a peculiarly ;p.o.
gruous side of the mans nature. Ee had >.
one time bean genuinely swayed bv tbs l.
fuence of psychic phenomena and gave or;
dence of belief in second sight" hut 49,.
it aside as irrational in the broad exna,;
ence Of later years. This fact, neyertho
less, not that it always follows, was the nr;.
ciple upon which that wonder and mvs,s,.
took shape in his visionary poetic facu,v
Like Coleridge, his eyes made picture,
when they were shut" and the rapture that
attended such spiritual INSTALLATION gava
him the "mystic's sense of being pnrs
enabling him to paint those apparent met.
ures of unapparent realities, which. a.
Zoroaster said long ago, are the essence Of
poetry" "The Vision of Sir Iaunfals u
the most popular if not quite perfect ex.
preston of this faculty in Lowelps poetic
nature. Mr.. Greenslet quite aptly sums nm
this type of his poetry when he says "there
is wan sufusion of mystical light, but no
single bright stanza like a star. Too often
there is some word or phrase that lets in
a shaft of intellectual day. or of gasght,
that dispells the illusion of the whole
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had succeeded to the Presidency after the
death of President Garfield, as Mr.. Howells
had had the pleasure Of notifying him Of
his first diplomatic appointment to Spain.
Two notable addresses Lowell delivered
in New York, one before private organi-
zation and the other on the occasion Of a
great public event. Both of these addresses
are very important, because they sum up, as
it were, Lowell's position and his views in
the two fields in which his eminence
attained Before the Reform Club, Of New
York, on April 13, 1888, he delivered an
address on "The Independent in Politics."
in which he voiced the political ideaism
embodied in such poems as "The Present
Crisis" and the "Commemoration Ode"
"Onlv during the years Of the war; writes
Mr.. Ferris Greenslet, in his study Of Lowell,
"when the young Republican party was still
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On the
Beach

The light boats, with their white and blue
sides and their masts gracefully inclined
formed an advance line at the edge of the
beach, where the waves broke in delicate
film Of water that FURNISHED the ground. as
II II were glass; behind. with their bitumen-
covered bellies upon the sand, lay the black
ox-boats, in pairs, waiting for the winter
until they took to sea, raking it with their
train Of nets; and in the rear, the cat
boats under repair, the grandfathers, at the
sides Of which the calkers were busy smear
ing them with tar, 80 that they might re-
sume their dificult, monotonous voyages
over the Mediterranaan-som TO the
BaleaYic isles with salt, on other occasions
TO the coast Of Algiers with the products
Of the eastern gardens, and often with
muskmelons and potatoes for the red gol-
dicrs Of Gibraltar.
In the course Of year the beach would
changs neighbors; the catboats, already re-
paired, would take 70 sea and the fishing
boats would be fitted out and launched; one
boat alone, abandoned and without rigging,
remained rooted to the sand, sad and soli-
tary, without other company than that Of
tho coast guard seated In its shade.
The sun had melted away It's paint: the
planks we're cracked ard ereaked from dry
ness, and the sand, blown by the wind, had
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crew Of eight. At dawn we had left Oran,
and by noon, having reached as far north
as Cartagena, spied on the horizon a
little black cloud and not much later a
steamer that we all knew. We'd rather
have seen tempest arise. 1t was the gun
boat from Alicante.
"There was stiff breeze We scudded be-
fore the wind with mainsai and jib spread.
But against these inventions of man sails
don't count, at all, and a good sailor counts
even less.
"Not that they overlook us; no, sir. The
Socarrao could never be caught with the
wind in its favor! We sped along like n
dolphin, our hull inclined and the waves
licking the deck; but the fellows in the gun
boat put on more speed and every moment
our pursuer grew in size, although they
didn't gain much on US. All if it had only
been late in the afternoon Night would
have fallen before they reached us, and
then let them hunt for US in the darkness
But there was plenty of daylight ahead, and
sailing along the coast were they'd
catch US before nightfall.
"The captain handled the tiler with all
the care Of one whose whole fortune do
pends on "a bad turn. A little cloud of
white rose from the vessel and we heard
the boom Of cannon
"As we did not see the ball, we COM
menced to laugh, happy and even proud
that they had warned us 80 noisily
"Another shot, but this time wicked
one. 1t seemed to us that big bird went
scroeching over the boat, and the yardarm
came down with the ropes broken and the
sail torn. They had split our mast, and. in
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Recognition as
A Poet

Lowell's connections with New York were
slight enough, but what they were are sig
niicant. He wrote for the "Anti-Slavery
Standard" then edited by Sydney Howard
Gay, who was later Mr. Greeleys assistant
on The Tribune. 1t was The Tribune among
the papers of the country that gave Lowell
his first recognition as an accomplished
poet, greeting his first book, "a Years
Life" with the declaration that he
"well and widely known as ono Of the most
gifted and promising poets in America" In
1S43 he went to New York to consult DR..
Elliott, the foremost oculist of his time,
about some serious eye trouble, and became
acquainted with Nathaniel Parker Willis,
Charles f. Briggs, better known Harry
Franco aud William Page, the painter.
1t was in 1845 that he visited Poe at Ford
ham. with whom, it has been reported, he
had had "for some years fervid but some
what spasmodic correspondence" In later
years his closest and most sympathetic
literary friend in New York was the late
Richard Watson Glider, who had the pleas
ure of informing him officially that he was
to retain his post at St. James's under the
administration of President Arthur, who
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invaded its deck. But its fine outline, its
slender sides and the gracefulness of its
construction indicated light, audacous
craft, made for wild expeditions and scorn-
ing the perils of tho deep 1t had the sad
beauty of those old horses that were once
upon a time fiery chargers and have now
fallen, weak and forsaken, upon the sand
of the bull ring.
1t lacked even a name. The prov was un-
marked and the sides there was not
sign of any number registered title--it
was an unknown being that would die
among the other boats proud of their POM
pous names, even as some persons die
earth without revealing the mystery Of
their lives.
But the incognito of the boat was only
apparent Everybody in Torresalinas knew
it very we'll, and never spoke of it without
winking, as if it recalled something that
provoked malicious JOY.
One morning in the shade of the aban-
doncd boat, as the sea was seething beneath
the sun, resembling a summer nights sky,
blue and spangled with dots of light, an
old fisherman told me the story.
"This. sailboat" he began caressing the
dry, sandy side with his palm, ais the
Socarrao, the bravest and best known ship
of all that ply the from Alicante
to Cartagena. Holy Virginl The money
that this condemned vessel has earned
The duros that have come out of itl 1t
has made at least twenty trips from Oran
to these shores, and always with its holds
we'll stocked with bales"
rI,l..
surprised me somewhat, and the fisherman
noticed this.
"Mere nickname, caballero; nicknames
that we men have here just the same as the
boats. It's useless for the priest to waste
his learning on US; the people are the
ones that really do the baptizing here.
Now Pm named Filipe, but il you hap
pen to be looking for me some day, ask for
CASTELAR,. for that's how Pm known, be-
cause ! like to talk to persons-and in the
tavern I'm the only one that can read the
paper to the crowd. That boy now going
by with the basket Of fish Is called Chispas
! cSparks) and his master Is dubbed El
Cano CWhte HairedD, and we're all bap-
tized in the same fashion. The owners Of
the beats wrack their brains to find pretty
name to paint on the PROV. One Of them
prints The Most Pure Conception another
Rose Of the Sea- still another THE Two
Friends but along come the people with
their mania for ncknames and the boats
are chrstened The Peacock THE Parrot,
The Half Roll and we ought to be thank
full that they don't distinguish them with
less decent names. A brother Of mine
owns the prcttiest craft in the registry; we
baptized it with the name Of my daughter
Camilla, but VIC painted it yellow and white
and on the day Of the christening it oc
Cured To one wag of the beach that il
looked like a fried egg. Can you believe
1t? That's the cnly name it's now known
byI"
II see" I interrupted. "But how apou
the Socarrao7"
ats real name WAS the Resolutc, but tn,
speed with which II responded and thu
fury with which it dcfcd the waves causet
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through the town. The Socarrao be-
ing chased by gunboat!
"You should have seen what happened
now. A genuine revolution, believe me,
caballero. Half the town was related to
one or the other Of u.s. and the rest made
their living more or less from our busl-
ness The beach looked like an anthll.
Men, women and children followed us with
anxious glance, shouting with satisfaction
as they saw our ship, making every effort,
gain gradually on its pursuer and win a
half hours advantage over it.
Gwen the alcalde (town magistrate) was
here to help in the good cause. And the
coastguards, excellent boys, that live among
us and are almost part of the family, dis
appeared, understanding the situation and
not caring to ruin US poor fellows.
"sAshore boys!' shouted our captain
We're going to run aground. We must
make sure of saving the cargo and our
selves The Socarrao will get out of this,
all right
"And almost without furling sail we
struck the beach, forcing the prov into the.
sand Lord, you should have seen US work!
1t still seems like a dream, as l recall It,
The whole town boarded the boat and took
it by assault; the urchins scampered about
it like rats.
'Lively. there! Hurry, The government
officials are coming!'
"The bales were thrown from the deck;
they fell into the water, where they were
seized by barefooted men and women with
their skirts gathered between their legs;
some disappeared here, others there; now
vou saw them and now you didn't, and in a
short space of time the whole cargo had
vanished, as if it had been swallowed by
the sand tidal wave of tobacco swamped
Torresalinas, filterng into every house.
"The alcalde intervened in fatherly
fashion.
"'Man, this is too much he said to the
captain. They're taking away everything
and the coastguards will complain. Leave,
at least few packages to justify the seiz-
ure'
"Our master was willing.
"Very we'll. Make q couple of packages
from the bales containing the worst brand.
They'll have to be satisfied with that
"And he went off toward the town, taking
with him all the ships papers But he came
low thought of everything.
"'The name plates Eface' the name
plates!
at seemed as if the boat had grown feet
1t already out Of the water and was
being dragged through the sand in the
midst Of that bustlng, laboring crowd that
vented its spirits in happy shouts.
"'What jokel And maybe the govern.
ment officials won't be disappointed
"Our comradc Of the broken leg was car.
fied aloft by his mother and his wife. The
poor fellow was groanng with pain a
every brusque movement, but he swallowed
his tears and laughed like the rest Of then
at sight Of the cargo being saved and a
thought of the joke which was tho cause O
the universal merriment.
"When the last bales had disappeared il
tho streets of Torresalinss, the pillage O.
the boat began, The crowd carried of thu
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sails, the anchors, the oars; we even cut
down the mast, which was placed on the
shoulders Of mob OF boys who took it to
the other end of the town. The boat was
left mere hull, as bare as you see 1t now
"And in the meantime the calkers, brush
in hand, were painting away at top speeo
The socarrao was disfgured like gypSyS
donkey. With four strokes of the brush
the name on the prov was erased and oi
the name plates on the sides-those cursed
signs that are the passport of every boat
there remained not trace.
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The Empty
Cargo

THE gunboat anchored at the very mo.
ment in which the last spoils of the vessel
were disappearing at the entrance 10 'ne
town. I loitered about on this spot, pe-
cause I wanted to see the rest Of the anai''
and the better to deceive the officials
helped few friends launch fishing oOsI
THE government vessel sent small
armed boat, out of which don't know how
many men, armed with gun and bayohe'
jumped ashore. The boatswain, who was ~
their head, swore like trooper, looking q
the Socarrao and at the coast guards "hV
had taken possession of it.
"The whole population OF TOrresallns'
was laughing at the moment, celebrating
the trick, and it would have laughed eve"
louder had it seen, as l did, the faces 0H
those fellows when they discovered tha'
few packages of bad tobacco was ail '''
cargo aboard"
And what happened after that?' l asAsu
the old man. Wasn't anybody punisneO'
who? They could punish only the po0.
Socarrao, which was taken prisoner ~
of paper was covered with ink and hai Wv
town was called to testify. But nopO0'
knew anything. How was the boat fes's
tered? Silence! Nobody had seen the hs"s
plates Who composed the crew? 's'
men, who, on running aground, had neu y
the interior And nobody knew any'h"s
else
And the cargo?" | asked. -.
Eve sold the whole business. You 00D.
know what poverty is. When We ~
aground, every one grabbed the oaie iss'
est to him and ran TO hide II IN ms ''',s'
But the next day it was all placed :" -:
disposition of the captain. Not pOA1.
of tobacco was lost. Those who expose w,
lives in the struggle for bread anu lin,
death daily are more free from temp'S'''
than the others. hi
Ever since that time" continued 'h' ~.
man, 1.-THE Socarrao has remained mp
here. But it won't be long before i 81, !,
to sea again with its former o""s nj
seems that the case has been settieo. sD %
offer it at public auction and II wiz -, y
the captain for whatever he cares " .n
And if some one else bids higher: ;,
"And who's that going to be- a rbe
know? Do you take us for paho's, snsr
whole town knows who is the reai ...,t
of the abandoned boat. and noboaS lin.
is so wicked that he'll try to ha's "a
There's deal of honor in TINS p,~ .,s,
every man what belongs to him. - vhe
which Is Gods, is for us poor w. ssy.
earn our living from 1t, even Il
ernment objects"
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dency Of the Birmingham and Midland In
d monarchy with democratic tendencies, the
United States q democracy with conserva-
tive instincts" 1t had taken a generation
of the rank and file in both countries to
realize how closely they were bound to-
gether in that phrase, but looking back
upon it in the light of the war in which
both countries fought together for COM
mon cause, and that the ideal which
Lowell makes the subject Of his address,
can regard him as the earliest prophet and
exemplar of that Anglo American mood
from which the dividing shadow Of the
Revolution is lifted to let the light of per-
feet accord and good feeling flow together
in flood of reciprocal knship.
The celebration of the centenary of
Lowell's birth is to have its most sign-
fcant expression under the auspices of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters at
nifcance lies largely in the two facts that
the chief celebration does not take place
in Cambridge, the place of his birth, and
where his literary and PROFESSIONAL duties
were performed, but in New York, which
represents the nation in its chief interests
and accomplishments, and that the commit
tee of the institute so far recognizes the
Anglo-American character of Lowell's Off
cial, literary and social life that it is max
ing the affair one of an Anglo American
unity in its literary Importance.
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them to nickname it the Socarrao, as if it
were person of evil temper. And now
listen to what happened to this poor Socar
rao little more than year ago, the last
time it came from Oran."
The old fisherman looked about in all di-
rections, and convinced that we were alone,
informed me with genial smile;
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Authorized Translation from the
Spanish, by Isaac Goldberg

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE-"Lu Barca
A6andonada" is one of the best kmo1O1a of
Blasco Ibdnes's early tales 1t IS an
excellent example of his sea stories, of
has deep (often uehement) synapathy for
the lo1cly, and Of q halmor that is rare
in both his shorter and longer fiction.
''Socarrao," the name of. the vesseL
hero Of the tale, Is dialect form for
"soeorrodo," aohich Moons, literally,
"siaged' or "scorched." The acord has
also conmototion of cunning and the
ability to inspire fear.
The or-boats mentioned in the maora-
the are pulled into the aoater by onem
The boats set out in pairs, each pair
casting net jointly. The nickname
"Costelar" refers, of course, to the great
Republican leader and orator, Emilio
CASTELAR,, 18S2|99
"Lo Barca Abondonada" vas early
am,pIifed by the author into his movel
"Flor de Moyo," achich Is noaU BEING
translated into English.
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e of the crews

falling, the rigging broke one of the crews
legs.
81 must confess that we trembed just bit.
We could ourselves caught, and the
devil!-to go to prison like robber be-
cause you are earning living for your
family is something more terrible than a
night of storms. But the owner of the
Socarrao is a man that's as good as his
ship.
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TINE beach Of Torresalinas, with it's
many grounded boats, was the
- rendezvous Of all the fsherfolk.
The children, stretched out upon
their stomachs, would play at cards in
the shade Of the ships; the old men, smok-
ing their clay pipes that came from Algiers,
were fond Of speaking about the fishing or
the remarkable expeditions that used to be
made in former times to Gibraltar and to
the coast OF Africa, before it had occurred
TO the devil to invent what thew call
the Tabacalera government monopoly in
tobacco).
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NV HEN in the spring of 1885, James
M Russell Lowell retired as the
American Minister to England,
he came home with greater
social than diplomatic achievements to his
credit, and on that foundation had estab-
lished an entente between the two countries
more lasting than often exists in more for
NAL political agreements There were delicate
problems of diplomacy for him to settle,
notably the question of the Irish agitators,
who claimed American citizenship on the
technical point of naturalization, and he
settled them with tact and precision,
though in the Irish case he won the dis
pleasure and censure of the Irish element
of our population which was but the more
violent expression of charging him with
that Anglomania which was more less
a common rumor at the time
If he had like for English society and
institutions it was the spontaneous response
of his own urbane nature to nourishment
and sympathy. And in spite Of DR.. Edward
Everett Hale Skelcn OF MIN |SnuDDlHS INC
Anglomaniacs who are sometimes found in
New England" it was, I think, due more
to his sense of patriotism and moral de-
voton than to his social sympathies and
intellectual tastes that he refused so many
f1attering invitations to remain in England
wien he retired from his diplomatic post.
Each summer, after leaving the Court of
ST. James's, he returned to spend in Eng
land at Whitby, until the last before his
death, and in one of his letters he speaks
of "The charm of this place and the kind
heartedness of the weather have Capuaed
me here longer than I meant" which has
kind of mellow affection in it that makes
the place almost as dear to him as Elm
wood. And it Is significant that in the
earliest stage OF the final attack of the
malady of which he died in August, 1891,
during some days of delrum he "fancied
he was meeting royal personages and
seemed continually imporing to be taken
home to Elmwood"
Tho EHoC< of
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The Effect of
England

The fact is, as Henry James sketched him
hctionally in that richly tapestried post
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By William Stanley Braithwaite

wv 7 HEN in the spring of 1885, James
M Russell Lowell retired as the
American Minister to England,
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