Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . , leased and lived in the house,Longfellow keeping his rooms. Shortly afterwards Longfellowbought the house, and Worcester moved a Httle way down the streetnearer Brattle Square, where his house still stands. Beside Long-fellow, Washington, and Worcester, there have lived at differenttimes in the Craigie House such men as Edward Everett, WillardPhillips, and Jared Sparks. Longfellow is so world-widely knownthat the mention of his ^Works in fourteen volumes will be sugges-tion enough. Samuel Lo


Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . , leased and lived in the house,Longfellow keeping his rooms. Shortly afterwards Longfellowbought the house, and Worcester moved a Httle way down the streetnearer Brattle Square, where his house still stands. Beside Long-fellow, Washington, and Worcester, there have lived at differenttimes in the Craigie House such men as Edward Everett, WillardPhillips, and Jared Sparks. Longfellow is so world-widely knownthat the mention of his ^Works in fourteen volumes will be sugges-tion enough. Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892), author of a life of his brother,the poet, a memoir of Samuel Johnson, and a number of spiritedhymns and poems, lived at No. 76, a httle further down the street. No. 2 Riedesel Avenue. H(enry) Addington Bruce (1874- ).Author. (The Riddle of Personality; Scientific Mental Heal- CAMBRIDGE 39 ing; Psychology and Parenthood; Nerve Control and how toGain it.) No. 149 Brattle Street. Frederike Charlotte Luise, Freiherrinvon Riedesel (i746-1808), and her husband, Baron Riedesel, who. ELMWOOD, HOME OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL CAMBRIDGE commanded the Brunswickers under Burgoyne, lodged in this houseas prisoners on parole. Her interesting Letters and Journalsgive her a place here. No. 192 Brattle Street. Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. L. ), author of many volumes of verse. The Piper, drama,won the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 1910. No. 5 Clement Circle. Bliss Perry (i860- ). Author, editor,and Professor of English Literature at Harvard University since1907. (The Powers at Play; A Study of Prose Fiction; WaltWhitman; etc.) Elmwood, on Elmwood Avenue, not far from the entrance toMount Auburn, was the home from birth to death, with intervals ofseparation, of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). He was one ofthe founders, and editor, 1857-1862, of the Atlantic Monthly;and co-editor, with Charles Eliot Norton (see Shady Hill), 1863-1872, of the North American Review. Minis


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