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Next day Judge French brought home a lump of clay for Daniel to practice on, and for seven years Daniel practiced diligently. When the family moved to Concord, dashing May Alcott (Louisa's sister), who had studied sculpture in Paris, gave him a few pointers, and Neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson too was moved to smile on Daniel's work. That was enough. Writes Margaret: "With that fine conviction in their own capacity to produce the best . . . Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute...
With all due respect to Louis Untermeyer, who [TIME, Jan. 27] is quoted as saying, "There are ... no Marx Sisters," I would refer him to Les Soeurs Marx (The Marx Sisters) by Louisa May Alcott...
...Soeurs Marx: "To American readers this requires a word of explanation. Little Women, translated directly into French as Petites Femmes, would have a meaning which would have distressed Louisa May, of Concord, Mass. The Frenchman of the street confused the name 'March' (the family name of Miss Alcott's Little Women) with Marx, made famous in France as elsewhere by the inimitable Groucho, Harpo and Chico. So Little Women was named The Marx Sisters, and was believed by many purchasers, who were later disappointed, to have the zany qualities which have become synonymous with America...
Call down Bronson Alcott, Jack, here's Brook Farm...
...Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless...