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Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Hardy's But Yet a Woman. Second and Third numbers of "The Riverside Paper Series" of Standard and Popular Copyright Novels, to be issued semi-monthly. Price, 50 cents. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., BOSTON. THE DIAL There have been five previous publications connected with the life of the Concord sage. The first memoir was written by George W. Cooke, soon after Emerson's death. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the volume for the "American Men of Letters" series, and Richard Garnett that for the "Great Writers " series. The authorized life was the work of James Elliott Cabot, the literary executor of Emerson. David Greene Haskins has published a volume on The Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson," with recollections of the poet-essayist. But in spite of this collection of Emerson memoirs, the book before us is valuable for what it adds to all others 66 a vivid portrayal of the man in his private life. The author says: "I write for my father's neighbors and near friends, though I include many who perhaps never saw him. His public life and works have been so well told and critically estimated by several good and friendly hands that I pass lightly over them, to show to those who care to see, more fully than could be done in Mr. Cabot's book consistently with its symmetry, the citizen and villager and householder, the friend and neighbor. And * EMERSON IN CONCORD. A Memoir written for "The Social Circle" in Concord, Mass. By Edward Waldo EmerBoston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. son. if I magnify, perhaps unduly, this aspect of my father, it is to show those whom his writings have helped or moved that his daily life was in accord with his teachings." As the title indicates, the book was written for the Concord Social Circle," of which we shall get the best idea from one of Emerson's letters: “Much the best society I have ever known is a Club in Concord called the Social Circle, consisting always of twenty-five of our citizens, doctor, lawyer, farmer, trader, miller, mechanic, etc., solidest of men, who yield the solidest of gossip. Harvard University is a wafer compared to the solid land which my friends represent. I do not like to be absent from home on Tuesday evenings in winter." The first fifty pages give the details of biography, adding little unpublished before except the incidents that make more vivid Emerson's boyhood and youth. We are told that the boy Ralph handled a shovel, for a few hours of boyish enthusiasm, in fortifying Boston harbor during the war of 1812, as his grandfather had been chaplain at Concord fight; that he daily drove the cow down the present fashionable Beacon Hill, and with his brothers took care of the vestry of the church to which his father had ministered; how he entered college as President's freshman, earning his lodging by running errands, and later paid part of his board by waiting on table at Commons; how he occasionally obtained money by writing essays for his less skilful fellows; nor are we surprised to learn that "the expenses to meet which these boys wanted money seem to have been oil, paper, and quills." Everyone knows that Emerson's record in college was not brilliant, that his school teaching afterwards was not wonderfully successful, and that his pastorate ended in apparent failure. But even at this time he seems to have felt that he had a work peculiarly his own, and to have undertaken it unostentatiously but with belief in his power to succeed. He returned from his visit to Wordsworth and Carlyle with some feeling of disappointment; and dislike of the pessimism of the latter prompts a characteristic entry in his journal: "It is the true heroism and the true wisdom, Hope. The wise are always cheerful. The reason is (and it is a blessed reason) that the eye sees that the ultimate issues of all things are good." It is the citizen Emerson that interests us especially. He believed in civic duty. "A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature." With such a belief, he did not hesitate to accept the least office in the gift of his townsmen. Emerson the philosopher was once Emerson the hog-reevean office to which he was chosen soon after his marriage, in accordance with venerable custom. He served on the school committee early and long. He became a member of the fire association, and he regularly sent his best garden specimens to the cattle-show" exhibition. He made it a point to attend town-meeting, and many an entry in his journal indicates interest, if not in the affairs of the town, at least in his townsmen. The great anti-slavery struggle found Emerson always on the side of freedom, as we should expect ;. but he did not join himself to the leaders in the agitation. He rightly 66 He estimated that he was not fitted for their work. Liberty was axiomatic with him, and, unable to understand the position of its opponents, he could not successfully argue its truth. claimed that his work included the work of the reformers, and it was belief in the importance of his special work that prevented his giving his life to the cause. How deeply he felt this, as well as how thoroughly he sympathized with the movement for freedom, we may see from an entry in his journal in 1852. "I waked last night and bemoaned myself because I had not thrown myself into this deplorable question of Slavery, which seems to want nothing so much as a few assured voices. But then in hours of sanity I recover myself, and say, God must govern his own world, and knows his way out of this pit without my desertion of my post, which has none to guard it but me." A peculiar sweetness and gentleness has always been attributed to Emerson's character. The anecdote is familiar of the workwoman who, on expressing intention of going to hear the lecturer, was asked, "Do you understand Mr. Emerson?" "Not a word; but I like to go and see him stand up there and look as if he thought everyone was as good as he was." There is much in the present volume to indicate not only the love of Emerson's neighbors, but his own broad humanitarianism. There are many characteristic references to his neighbors, common men in whom he was constantly finding the most uncommon qualities. The thrifty farmer, the practical man of affairs, were each possessed of a peculiar genius. This is finely shown by a passage attributed to Thoreau in Sanborn's Life, but now settled without doubt as Emerson's: "Look over the fence yonder into Captain Abel's land. There's a musician for you, who knows how to make men dance for him in all weathers; and all sorts of men, paddies, felons, farmers, carpenters, painters, yes, and trees and grapes and ice and stone, hot days and cold days." His love of men was of the practical sort. No fanatic or other mad theorist failed of a welcome and courteous treatment at his home. An amusing anecdote is told of a Russian reformer, who insisted on keeping his hat on in the house while he related his story. Emerson kindly suggested taking the hat, three times, without success; but finally conquered by a "Very well, then, we will walk in the yard," and there he patiently heard the mission of his unconventional guest. There was the same unselfish and warm regard for his literary friends, Alcott, Hawthorne, Thoreau. Alcott's "conversation is sublime.” Thoreau is "the good river-god" who has "introduced me to the riches of his shadowy starlight, moonlit stream, a lovely new world lying as close and yet as unknown to this vulgar trite one of streets and shops, as death to life, or poetry to prose." There are some striking likenesses to Wordsworth in Emerson's habits. "Emerson's best -- His writings," says Garnett," are the breathings of a soul saturated with sylvan influences." journals are full of references to his retirement to the pine woods of his little farm for meditation, consulting the oracles, as he called it. This was his place of thought, his study, while the library was the place of recording and uniting into proper literary form. The few lines of prose suggested as he sat on the bank of the Musketaquid became the beautiful poem "The Two Rivers." Like Wordsworth, he loved walking rather than riding; he skated with his children at fifty on Walden Pond, as Wordsworth on Lake Windermere; and it is characteristic that, although he purchased a rifle at one time, he never shot any living creature. New testimony is added to his hard work through life, writing in summer and lecturing in winter; seldom taking a vacation, though often bemoaning that he did so little. His manner of writing is well known. For the first time an attempt is made, in this volume, to trace the development of his poetry. The writer divides his poetical activity into three epochs: "The youthful or imitative, the revolutionary, and the mature stages." The first period extends to 1834, ending with the Phi Beta Kappa poem in that year; the second includes the years 1835 to 1847, when his first volume of poems appeared; and the later |