. Review of reviews and world's work. THOMAS WENTHWORTHIIIGGINSON. 702 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF Photo by Pach Brothers. PROF. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. thrilling campaign song to Lincoln, was a figurein patriotic assemblies. What is the secret of these long lives, of theserene and useful years that in many of theselives followed the age of seventy ? Did thefriend whom I have quoted adequately answerthe question ? Mrs. Julia Ward Howe recently gave a lectureat the New England Conservatory of Music on^A Plea for Cheerfulness. She took in partthis view. James T. Fields, after his reti
. Review of reviews and world's work. THOMAS WENTHWORTHIIIGGINSON. 702 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF Photo by Pach Brothers. PROF. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. thrilling campaign song to Lincoln, was a figurein patriotic assemblies. What is the secret of these long lives, of theserene and useful years that in many of theselives followed the age of seventy ? Did thefriend whom I have quoted adequately answerthe question ? Mrs. Julia Ward Howe recently gave a lectureat the New England Conservatory of Music on^A Plea for Cheerfulness. She took in partthis view. James T. Fields, after his retirementfrom active work, used to give a reminiscentlecture on the same subject with like conclusions. The moralist will say that these writers weretemperate, governed in all things by moral prin-ciple, and sought to fulfill a calling rather thanto make money or gain fame. This is true. Butwe repeat : Most of these literary people, andprobably all ofthem, felt that they must live forinfluence, and that they were doing that whichGod had called them to do, and ih^y foujicl theirhappiness in their work. True ha
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