Tarry at home travels . he languages, the scenes, andthe legends of northern Europe, and his friendsintimated that it would be agreeable to him torepresent this country at Copenhagen. Recol-lect that all this about Vinland and Thorfinnand Thorvald and the rest had just come tolight. But the new government could not sendhim to Copenhagen, but said that they wouldsend him to Constantinople. Scandinavian orSemitic — what difference did that make as thedice-box of patronage threw out its six or its five !iVnd indeed that happened, if anything happens,that this master of Northern hterature took ina
Tarry at home travels . he languages, the scenes, andthe legends of northern Europe, and his friendsintimated that it would be agreeable to him torepresent this country at Copenhagen. Recol-lect that all this about Vinland and Thorfinnand Thorvald and the rest had just come tolight. But the new government could not sendhim to Copenhagen, but said that they wouldsend him to Constantinople. Scandinavian orSemitic — what difference did that make as thedice-box of patronage threw out its six or its five !iVnd indeed that happened, if anything happens,that this master of Northern hterature took inas a matter of course the Oriental questions andadded the treasures of the East to the stockwhich seemed ample before. His philologicallearning gave him preeminence in the greatdiplomatic circle of Constantinople. He afterwards travelled in the north of 134 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Europe; he spent many years in Italy, to thegreat advantage of us all, and in philological mat-ters which relate to our own language he is one. Mrs. George Perkins Marsh. of the great leaders. But I do not like to speakof him without speaking of his charming wife, whomade additions not to be forgotten to the htera-ture of the century. VERMONT 135 I think that the young men and young womenof Vermont who want a college training are aptto go to their own colleges, Burlington andMiddlebury, and that they are wise in doing dare not go into the successes of Vermontssons and daughters in literature. Everybodyremembers, not to speak of persons now livingin this country whose names and work we readevery day, Saxe, and the Stevenses, Henry andBenjamin Franklin, to whom we owe inestimablecontributions to American history. Vermontadopted Mr. Kipling, though he has run awayfrom us for the moment. Take care, while you are in Vermont, to see thegreat Proctor marble quarries. There is a town ofProctor, where some of them are. But I do notknow how far their marvellous enterprise ex-tends. I do know that Richard Gr
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