Show I 1 BOSTON MEN OF LETTE ra I 1 now ilow tho the literary crowd of that city is madg abado up THE BIG GUNS THE YOUNGER SET th abo knill clr ra knit it ahe TI sers o bitter to amield iraj tit alf pea r at hull 1 to be faoma people or of ilnyo hurtti sr BOSTON i OSTO it 1 you cannot be in boston the pelt next best tiling Is to bo be literary this thin lines does not dot imply that aliat liat you should balgar newspaper reporters anti editors edi tora ad i a rule art are scarcely equipped with alie s todal bols graces eribes la IR out chent dovel devol 0 abe r ent to render them item available for exhibition in tho the parlor and ballroom ro 0 happily 16 ap pp ho however gever it is other wl U J chosen crowd ot major and minor celebrities here pegasus carries them above the unpleasantly commercial atmosphere of at daily journalism nalisa tn luese leopla people are received an and to know 19 now them Is considered a E if they do 10 not t take part antho in the ultra gay 8 binim M it is because they nave care a 8 coterie ol of their own OWL equally exclusive and in their notion MOTO elevated ted their club the st botolph represents the aristocracy ot of APPI applied oil intellect just jasi ni as the somerset Some reet stands tor for gilt odgen in considering the followers tol lowers ot of literature v at the modern athens one oils 13 naturally atu rally divides them into four our clam clemaes ses namely the tae big oona gons tho the younger set the women volden writers and tto the hadgers on tile wet brat class cass has haa dr holmes bud mr lowell as I 1 iab to tor meat representatives and Is or ga ean iMil malicious mail clona persons persona BAT as a E mutual 1 3 admiration society the set aee G n d chaos the generation ot of pen bolders lol ders exemplified by ach buch men aa robert kobert grant and jolla jolia T wheelwright acte the third class Is filled with clever scribblers scribble rs in petti wats who do much admirable work and nearly dearly nil all ol of them hate ante each other with it la Is astonishing the b tt erness ol of tooling taming exhibited among the dear kills girls who browse apon the immortal asphodel blooms that grow la in this cultivated locality loe allty the stories they tell felt about one another r would malio make your hair cut in spite ot of elf this ones unconventional loura ovI ecale fair and that 00 one eg addiction to midnight chain agno are ara described with re morg elem accuracy ot of detail upon I 1 pon the tie social sad professional status of 0 each merciless reflections are cast god and mutual regarding phy 6 leal la 18 interchanged with as aa much frankness as was as shown la tho ito recent homeric sod and ever to lo bo remembered controversy contro ery beleen ilia ella wheeler IN ipox the ibo ot of and ad lost hardly baldly leys 11 cole cele elo rated priestess of 0 erotic fiction bird atherton At bertou it la is to lo bo be feared that atoa in the gen derit SADLY PRONE PROM TO 10 As aa for or the tie hangers haDger wa on who h orm the he fourth class clam referred to they are arc legion many ot of them tire merely satellites revolving about tho the brigher lights and bor borrowing roving their radiance rad lauce some write fur ur tile the transcript and other publications will which ch do not pay pa AO lor r acce accepted pled others produce does manuscript by the ream which 0 they read to patient friends find and submit ith never derer dying hopefulness to editors edi tora the ones onea self belt in print amounts to a vice perennially epidemic hereabout berea hont if aou aou asked the he woman here not the scribbling ones who was their la tai orita literary idol in boston Bojt ton they would doubtless say eay T W IT Iggins oli lie ile to la just jast tho the sort eon of 0 a man that appeals to 0 o the feminine lose of ilia ideal of a poetic emarl native apon lcm Ie po ramont with alb mautte rv ways and brilliant couver coliver oat lonal howera in the dra room or at a deamer party lie he cee anil and the ladles a society ont or ilu for or him a fervid platonic r 1 regard I ard only shared in ia equal degree by that cluss al exponent of 0 fashionable theology rw R av philips beoo brooks col IlIg gloson Is 19 tall and with gray side uhl villio uLers Lers it Is 19 said eald ot of him blin that lie ho does docs many uncommonly beut well though boiling greatly idea aro are not dot lend fond of 0 him ua 88 a ruin Is and its il enemies accuse alm of oc effora loney and conceit ne gets tho the highest prices for or his literary work ills vs weekly cokly artle articles lea in harper are models of the essays lile to libet whether bor they treat of questions or of brills trills on plau tores itis it la admitted that I 1 la a the art ot of presiding gracefully at a dinner denaer or blob col AIg gloson Is excelled by only ono one mun me in boston namely dr edward everett 0 liv erelt hale tile the atter l Is tile the mot moat in ili dh ednal latown in own he looks it too HS so one a teea reea him hurrying blong along the street ills il tall form bent with the stoop ot of the echolas and his hie slouch hat bat pulled over life his eyes his drem Is Ded igent because he never nas has time to attend to it TO AN A APPEAL from a person peria distressed however bo weier be always has bag RD an ear to lend all AIL the poor devils who are shoved oil oft by ev as lery body else go to him lor for ha help ap and seldom in vain As a talk talker r ha g Is most entertain og and ot of facts on ery conceivable subject he 6 1 nil frill you must let him do the talking though for or bo boal always waya mists inflate upon monopolizing ill the conversation perhaps allo lug ion to ask aak a ani tion occasionally but wo we our peculiarities it wag it a I 1 reach man at a supper in baltimore who once said to the ibe writers father ertry man has hla his then addlor otter after n R moments luo mente reflection sad and my ii 11 tr ter lr dr it is pastor suitor ot of the he until south congrak Con greK itlo naf church so called ea lied though Val ue ile writes az excellent stories of 0 the realistic order heays and political borcea cea TB T ens B airich editor of 0 tho the monthly may hs be called the apostle apo itlo of 0 sl it lain in literature lie bag given hie agalloco magaz ag alloo lue a high reputation tor for its ita english Eug llah it Is said gold of 0 bin tit prose that I 1 its is equality to Is more IQ in the Ilie manner then than tit in the suhn tance A chort poem tie a writes beyond dis dippolo polo kith ui MOTO more DO delicacy licary gild and oneness ot of touch thuat eau RAI BUY ny ono one clio dr not dot excepted liel ue Is savery very ag agreeably man laity and aad likes people to apprent ate at the bills jokes he be Is ro be 1004 ot of cracking lie entertains at hla his house on ML lit vernon street and Is something of 0 a patron ot of music and the th drama at all the snail bnell theatrical events he h can be b on llast nights with his bis wife and son eon and nd with wary mory anderson and edwin on terms lie he Is the particular pot pet of most mont fashionable woman I 1 mra ira juba john L gieir Gril Dor and it to la asserted that bo so MM ta e polly high e to upon mr A 1 H Is is be death mhd ilia average aai t though tough 15 years ot at a age 0 loots looks att alt ayt m like a boy 17 k 0 of dr r 01 be reminds 0 ono that it la high time that the vene a bid autocrat u rat w was b relight brought la in it he reada this letter bo be athi 6 1 liu be already indulging a grieved that hint he should have beta been left out oot go eo long 1009 auona that bit ills big dam foolish I 1 to Is ills hla to danity DAY which to la insatiable ho hua aldaya been potted I 1 lias bus sought ala titon slid and hai on alt it lira lo he began life M age a Y odua co UK physician phirl claa be aiu cultivated the a artor of ilia elocutionist aud and mada umi loita it a business alays tobaie to have a poem rendy ready fur for any occasion loa hea be li nil BE ills all breakfast table ghys whys in the alo atlantic A tl antle gave fw kim him big bia first bret real ital tamp fame bud ills medicine particularly sua Bunt olny tooly gave film ciu as a a teacher anil and lecturer though ho he never practiced to any ox fx tnt lie li Is popular anil and in halt bubble over sarith wit vt la ilk tip in arance lie he nothing no 00 much as a little hulo winter opple abid no OUR would gums front from iiii is what a is 1 at the me core beneath lil flat treat brott thice all tin luok ask UP u to 10 him ai to RD nn oracle gild ho gives r rn FJ dato strictly li in tint that capacity its fion ally thing orlin on nil iw he 1 Is opt apt to write to tile the city authorities who it ai west dutot ica hia advice 11 occasion occa alon ilea has elicited 1 lt with 11 bacorn irr I 1 1 bam barly 1 60 ye year Is of age flow BOW rod aud his bis asdora dimart that hint bo be is it ill Ms ills second child flood by thoughtful critics james if ruall loss lonill el in placed even nearer deater ito summit of 0 the ilia acclivity 1 ir than dr holmes it if the lil lat lattore tirs tors crovi clottu it is xo no 63 0 the author anther of 0 tile the baglow papers wears a no 71 7 re he idof ia 0 a turn strongly ma con bowling yowling yow ling is ith ills of tile autocrat anil and lila bit physiognomy la to resemble that ot of stid tho savior sailor ho he looks like and lias has the ways of it a cultivated gentleman hi Is achmed of a aney to lo and proudly tot reters IS to boxi years ot of anglo saxon lowell ancestry in manner ho Is eby and bin i occo la bifia pitched As a corn eraa lie he ili brilliant vibon in ili the humor he in reputed a core cere tort hort ot of person pernon with tits the attributes ota ofa scholar rather than a man ortho of tho world lie int drat earned fujimo as a follower of the emerson school COr coming laing la ili at tho the eallond tail nil ot of the transcendental movement for a generation fie hi lias has been a pet la ia boston at present ho he low does vory very little ri riling ting being already about TO 0 years ot of age the greater purl of him bin unto tart he be spends at south Sont hWo oro wilk his daughter mrs biro burnett barnett in luthe the highest literary grade here stands parkman whose great lifework life ilfe work hog has been tho the voll velt kno a history til atory of 0 tho the french occupation of 0 north korth america in many volumes BE IS 13 STOUT AND GENIAL rot lint unhappily happily nn such an aa invalid that for or some time past he be has bos been unable to do any mental labor A refined looking mao man ot of about GO 60 years dr T W persons the ahli famous translator lathrof of dahte the odthe ot the bookmaking book making sel ot of a generation that Is almost paa anil and gone he ha has the elaborate ela borato dauners of of an old time coutt counter ler lie he IB a the most moat gallant of godles men azid and to sea him take og off his big hat to a fair air on beacon street estreet is worth going bjorlie bidets out of oc ones way at the same time lie bo is excessively embarrassed always with the be of truo true bruus experts consider his talent as ot of the first drat order and me his rendering into english of 0 the iho inferno and other works of ottha the classical classic italian vi undoubtedly unequaled tor for grace find and scholarship there Is 19 nothing that amuses him so eo much as turning ot off sonnets bonnets to pretty women J T la Is tho the celebrated arl arlier per of 0 boys bora stories ei orle to that atkind tand of 0 wort work he chiefly directs his big attention nowadays no nadae though ho he has baa pro deuced a good de deal lot ot of pretty lair air poetry 1 1 Y u he earns quite n largo large income ey by 1 ala 1 dpn 1 int which la IS employ ed to lo no small 1 1 4 client t by the loua companion to n tho the paper that la Is run rua A NOTION attachment ito ho la ili tall fresh look ing with too long gray hair arid and owns up to go 60 years or nearly ili jia are somewhat Bome what crude had a taste for m leads him to lo concert witti alib tho the spookiest leal kiest crowd rather thau than with the high fliers of fashion alexander young the a ot f tile boston post poet is a most interesting I 1 0 mau who frequents tho the clubs and kno a everybody worth orth knowing ue lie Is a litterateur rather than an author has strongly marked features and louka looks like a lie is a bachelor of 63 and supports bluie elf by bis big pen tin ills concho history of tile lie ae tun mods in which lie took motley so eo severely to task gave Kave mm film some reputation ile he letters to tin ills now kow york critic and dors does oil all forts of work oscar foy fay adania adams Is 19 a bachelor of 43 45 perhaps who he lives all alono one by himself in a dormitory seat near harvard university jn in hla bla quarters there ho he glies gives reception ioni n ill ono 1116 chosen of tho the literati from boston bad its lie la Is fond fault of be tiivi inn ing the and nd bomin wrung lor for comp com soy slight and of email physique mill gry gray hair rind and gentle woy ways a prolific poet boet and magazine NN itter 1 ilo le Is near lighted and absent john joba C hopes llopes Is Js widely known as a w writer r iter self and lecturer on militar military Y topics to ua ile isis successful lawyer clawy or of the bliler 0 gene rallou hugely popular walh ito men find theil lOners gh en at his bouplon bonne on SI LVernon are dower based ito ho does its ci well and thore tho re la Is not another so 60 informed a 1 man in boiton ills ilia collection of likenesses of napoleon cod and julias closer la 13 not dot equaled in ill tho the world it has been asserted of late that the literary lite rory center atthe ot the united states Is no boager la in boston but hanew la new york city but isberg in that hot ohen often shop licop lice metropolis will you yon find and such a set of timing literary goul geniuses u s es as the modern athens lias has ole oa show h 0 w take henry cabot lodge lodee for instance a man of most ailsto and really marvelous clo cleverness clever vernes nebS at 35 years of age he Is already famous lie he Is now servings a second to term rm la in congress bas bag PI plenty on ty of ra money 0 day and enjoys A LITERARY reputation Rr which chiefly rests reels upon 8 life its of webster and an ad edition of alexander aexander S works for u R short time almo recently rece olly lie ho owned and edited the boston advertiser saes many social accomplishments and Is regarded regard cd as 03 an aa authority on subjects connected with american Amori caa history tall ath letto aud and blo blonde tide he bo may bo be r to deed strikingly be ansome fi ats 8 manders are aud his many enemies call him bim stiff and con called they 1 hey say too that ho he isun scrupulous ro and accuse him of having hai ing cold ohl blui self for political office odice robert giobert grant earned famo fame while yet an undergraduate at harvard too ton years go by his big contributions to college publications uli ills little tiu tin godson Wis wheels bispels which appeared originally in till the lampoon excited great of a FrI frisolone Frito solons loua girl issued Issue il not long after his graduation was the bright novel noirl of its ita season save tar for sit an un coz v lu erable mod modesty eaty hla his head boad his have y been turned lune longa ago golly by being made a lion lina of in society it used to bo be said that the girls girla were of afraid raid to meet him because his bis stories such a painfully pala fully accurate knowle knowledge dge of the iho gobbler sex ills ilia batet latet work was a b boys 0 yv story callad ballott jack hall vs aich lie he wrote tor for jordan margli dry goods shopkeepers to ta 1 A contemporary of bob grants at harvard was john T vi ti ho dwright a young bachelor of moderate rate tor for too who la Is very p popular in lu n society and aad at thil 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