Show n d WHITTIER AND HOLMES HOLMS Professor ir George Woodberry In Harpers Harpers Magazine 11 gai e for Jor February F Whittier Whitter was the opposite of or Holmes he h was was th the k poet of 6 the plain people born among mong them and ad never nevor p parting company com pa bj by virtue of ot education ed or that Sort ort of ot growth w which ilch Involves a a change chan In social surround surroundings lags ings Ih Hi Big la Quaker blood blod distinguished him from ta the thu others who were l all un but the dl distinction ja fur for hi Quakerism did for lor him Precisely What did for or them In S giving vins ing kad d breath to t We n ht spirit It I Is by br his Jus piety I that that he be most appeals now to the general g ne hearts rb by bi b 11 of the outward form or of df e Ne 1 England country life tUe and his h domestic types tes a as Jn Ju Snow Sg w a he m near to the homes home of Dt the community as 05 a w whole while as the antislavery poet he ho held h a and historic hist place In the life Ue of at the th times t rc te ot the three bc strains ot of en v through the medium of hi his sImple espin gone goodness eft his fae fame as a peoples Jt poet whose hUI manhood remained unspoiled he ds ls is assured of ot Jong lon memory mo type of or character char t r asure as U appropriate for the te country as a Holmes Hoimes was wa for the city though thoU h both tire are ur high hl h types and though th uh H it i may ct seem g em paw para Whittier hUter had nad vastly t the greater geater range p Both were deeply rooted roote tote i in the soil soU and had native history torY te In Jn their d both bot too were provincial ld in a away h way that tl t their th great t contemporaries Ies were not |