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Died. William E. Cameron, 84, onetime (1882-86) Governor of Virginia; at Louisa...
...figure of the past remains- Louisa May Alcott (1832-88). Yearly her books are issued; this autumn, in five editions.† Her upright heroines still curtsey at balls, have jolly sledding parties, converse soberly on morals, dismiss wayward suitors, love their families before themselves, suffer sorrow in pious silence...
...summer long," the first chapter proceeds, "Bronson Alcott paced through Concord's placid loveliness, being Bronson Alcott still, still ready to let flow the wondrous volume of his stored inanity on any victim. . . . Louisa May Alcott was famous. Her bones ached; her voice had become hoarse and coarse. . . . She must nurse her mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase...
Married. Viscount Dillon, 83, Chairman of Trustees to the British National Portrait Gallery, onetime curator of the Tower of London Armories; to Mrs. Margaret Louisa Phillips, 60; at London, by Chaplain in Ordinary to George V, the Reverend F. A. S. F. Folkes, brother of the bride...
...Only the mother, Louisa, senses his new, deeper travail. She leaves Walt more alone than ever, except to put food where he can get it and unlatch the kitchen window when he is gone to wander in the night, during months of vision, revision, destruction and creation, months of the purgation, despair, and finally the vehement triumph of a man giving his whole self to his country and his kind...