A New Portrait of Emerson.

The portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson which is here presented to readers of the Yale Review is from a daugerreotype taken in England on his second visit in 1847-48, when he was 46 years old. It shows him therefore at his very best, in the full maturity of the intellectual power of vigorous manhood. The history of this portrait recalls Emerson's association with two literary men of that time. One was Thomas Carlyle, the Sage of Chelsea, his intimate correspondent and friend, the magnet which drew him for the second time to visit England. The other was Carlyle's intimate associate and modest friend, Joseph Neuberg, a retired business man devoted to study and literary pursuits, who through Emerson's introduction became Carlyle's voluntary secretary and literary helper, and visited with him the battle fields of the Seven Years' War as a preliminary to Carlyle's writing his Frederic the Great. Later he translated into German more than five of the seven volumes of this great work. It was while a guest in the family of Joseph Neuberg in Nottingham, where Emerson was lecturing before the Mechanics Institute, that he gave this portrait to Miss Neuberg, the young and attractive sister of his host. It was generously presented to the writer by Neuberg's nephew, Mr. F. J. Frankau of London.

In regard to Emerson's appearance at this time, it may be

of interest to quote from a contemporary English newspaper. "He is thin, tall, apparently about forty-five, with an oval, Yankee countenance, rather sallow and esoteric, and a very prominent Wellington nose."

X The portraits of Emerson that we are most familiar with show him with three-quarters side face or more nearly in profile; that the present one is nearly full face lends it additional interest.

Eliza Brush Pirsson.