. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. elf-conscious ; and if it is not self-conscious theless honor to him who produces the art. A man may not knowhow magnificently he is writing but he must at least know that heis writing. Milton speaks of Shakespeare warbling his native By the Town of Franklin, Mass. 67 wood-notes wild, but Milton did not mean that Shakespeare wasa kind of literary Blind Tom who did not know what he was all his spontaneity Shakespeare was a consummate artist. In this self-consciousness of Franklins Autobiography w
. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. elf-conscious ; and if it is not self-conscious theless honor to him who produces the art. A man may not knowhow magnificently he is writing but he must at least know that heis writing. Milton speaks of Shakespeare warbling his native By the Town of Franklin, Mass. 67 wood-notes wild, but Milton did not mean that Shakespeare wasa kind of literary Blind Tom who did not know what he was all his spontaneity Shakespeare was a consummate artist. In this self-consciousness of Franklins Autobiography we seethe beginnings of that which was later to produce the sketch-bookof Irving, the Tales of Edgar Poe, Hawthornes Scarlet Letter,the essays of Emerson and the poems of Longfellow, Whittier andLowell. With Franklin a new literature which we call Americanbegan actually to exist. The exercises closed with the audience all joining in America,William S. Johnson presiding at the piano, thus ending one of themost successful and representative celebrations ever held in thetown of OBATB OF FRANKLIN, PHIXiADEIiPHIA. 1 fl> ^-^^ \- -^• ^ / .^-^.^ \ y „ J ? C •J ,vV -^ .. -0 >^ XX^ ,A .0 ^, ^?- ^ ^ X bo^ •^^.- V^^ o 0 ^^ .0^ ?^, * - s n ^ x\^^ ^^ ,->^ •^- <;<, V-* ^0 , ^^• .^%. c .-^-^^ - .0 0, \ ^- 2, ^ :#\o O 0 .-v^ x\ % %? rfVa - ^Oo^ .o- ,00 ^X^ ,v-.« -r^ .r^^ ,0 o. vX^ k. .^? ^^.. .0^ •^ .<^ ?*•
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