. The street railway review . looked uponthat keen, joyous, thoughtful and spirituelle countenance. Famecrowned him at many of her portals, and honor, troops of friendsand showers of good wishes brought their tribute. He built himyet more mansions as the swift seasons rolled, and herepresents to us all that is noblest, most generous and harmo-nious in the literary history of America. His home on tliewater side of Beacon street was a hospitable one. His librarywas on the second floor looking out on the Charles river, andhere, in the closing years of his life, he received his fiieuds si
. The street railway review . looked uponthat keen, joyous, thoughtful and spirituelle countenance. Famecrowned him at many of her portals, and honor, troops of friendsand showers of good wishes brought their tribute. He built himyet more mansions as the swift seasons rolled, and herepresents to us all that is noblest, most generous and harmo-nious in the literary history of America. His home on tliewater side of Beacon street was a hospitable one. His librarywas on the second floor looking out on the Charles river, andhere, in the closing years of his life, he received his fiieuds sit-ting enthroned among his books. In the drawing room downstairs hnng the famous portrait of Dorothy Q with the Britishofficers sword thrust through the canvas. Both Dr. Holmes andMr. Lowell led very ideal literary lives when one comes to thinkof it. The conditions into which both were born were the bestpossible for literary development of a high order, and each wasfortunate in what was withheld as well as in what was THE OLD MANSE—CONCORD. wherever patriotism is held as a pious virtue, wherever humanprogress is seen as an individual and national ideal, the nameof .lames Russell Lowell will be enshrined. Other phrases are needed to characterize Dr. Holmes. He hadthe most electric personality, recognizing with the lightning swift-ness of Intuition the keynote to any scale of elective was not so much magnetic, as magnetism impersonated. Hewas so much more alive than other people. The term old agewas a misnomer to associate with the genial, brilliant waters of Helicon were to him the fabled spring for whichPonce de Leon sought in vain, and it miglit have been said ofhim in his last days, as truly as when Lowell wrote the linesfifty years ago: His aro just the fine hands, too, to weave you a lyricFull of fancy, fun, feeling, or spiced wltli a measure so kindly you doubt if the toesThat are trodden upon are yours or the foes. Poet, wit
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