. Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . d the poet who hadwon the Lit prize for a poem on Westminster Abbey,nearly fifty years before, was ready to sing a noble song inhonor of Mater Coronata. His Hymn of the West waswritten by request for the opening of the St. Louis Fair in1904. His influence in elevating and directing public tastehas been of great value through all the years of a busy life. With the rapt look of those who see not as others see,Delia Bacon and Amos Bronson Alcott passed through thisbusy world. She, with remarkable intellectual powers, wa
. Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . d the poet who hadwon the Lit prize for a poem on Westminster Abbey,nearly fifty years before, was ready to sing a noble song inhonor of Mater Coronata. His Hymn of the West waswritten by request for the opening of the St. Louis Fair in1904. His influence in elevating and directing public tastehas been of great value through all the years of a busy life. With the rapt look of those who see not as others see,Delia Bacon and Amos Bronson Alcott passed through thisbusy world. She, with remarkable intellectual powers, was akind of literary lion in her day, by means of her Tales of theRegicides, and her lectures on literature, then unusual for awoman to give; but the world unfortunately remembers herbest as smitten with the fever of the Bacon-Shakespeare con-troversy, prowling ghoulishly about the sacred grave at Strat-ford-on-Avon, and yet held back by native delicacy fromdespoiling it. Alcott, visionary, lovable, unpractical, thegrandfather, so to speak, of Little Women, since Louisa 304. From the Painting by Alexander JAMES G. PERCIVAL CONNECTICUT AS A STATE May Alcott was his daughter, was born in Wolcott, in one of the transcendentalists, and famous ConcordPhilosophers, he was doubtless able, in his Concord Daysand Table Talks of Emerson to give faithful reproductionsof the spirit of that group of thinkers. Among volunteers in the Civil War, doing rather thanwriting was the rule; but besides Brownell, the army had theillustrious name of Theodore Winthrop, whose CecilDreeme and Edwin Brothertoft showed the world whatmight have been; and John William De Forest, born inHumphreysville, now Seymour, who was a captain of theTwelfth, sent home excellent reports of battles, whichwere literally written by an eye witness, since he was in onecampaign under fire for forty-six days. He wrote a Historyof the Indians of Connecticut, Honest John Vane, andmany other novels. And we cannot forget the
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