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...textbooks at the close of his short journey on an unfinished story of life with its conflict, suffering, and struggle for happiness. The pages that we learn about today will still be there, but new pages in life's experience will be added day by day. Balzac and Longfellow and Bach and Michael Angelo--these will still be on life's pages long after the texts are closed; Roosevelt and Hitler and Doumergue, too, will have filled their niche. But the world moves on. The University Dally Kaneen...
...springs our essential trouble. Between them they divided America in such a way that the honest labor of man could never be fused with his inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne, the two greatest artists who ever lived...
...children and children's children'' of Hameln, Germany, went invitations to return for a summer-long observance of the 650th anniversary of the child exodus led by the Pied Piper. On June 26 a monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between 1550 and 1600, was a cannibal by tribal custom...
...Brown?' said Mrs. Tompkins. If only I had known you were going to call I should have tidied up the drawing-room.' " Her mother's comment: "Drawing-rooms are always tidy." When she was 15 some of her verses, recommended by aged Poet Longfellow, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Otherwise, though she was a voracious reader and secret soliloquizer of stories, she conformed to the easy strictness of her station, making her debut in Manhattan and at 23 marrying Edward Wharton, Boston banker. Her first book, a collaboration with Architect Ogden Codman on The Decoration of Houses...
Died. Annie Allegra Longfellow Thorp. 78, youngest and only surviving daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; in "Craigie House," Cambridge, Mass...