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Show MAHRICT PRE8COTT SPOFFOno A llamlnf Urn Illy Ami( It. Tale llloMom f Now I nglta I. The tomluK tcjth front of new writer of abort etorlea, like Mary E. N llklo ao 1 'Octane Tbanat,' ba onwht orer thn4lvH IM fin of the older wrltf-r. HutMltaUtli Stuart i'lirlpi od HnrrW Preacott Fpolford have Inrne a af hare In the erolottoncf tbe tlmrtotory and It euaMlahin'-nt a a literary fart Surely the w ai Irani will do welt If tfiey ro,ual the pathn an I powr of "Jack an) Ibe Madonna of tl Tuba or the faiclnatlon of 'Tbe Amur lloW" My youth found ftreat drllght In I farrlet Tree coif itorle 1 rertltd In her onorou burning illctlnu, who tlh color ant life aomeliody had(trlbvl a the Ilt tnutber tongue uiulten anl frnwil la a iuglc crucible, and turned to llqul 1 gntl and gem." One cannot help wdMf ring whenca came Oil th ptcal luxuriance of Imagination In a chill horu among the lumUr forcat of Malne.nurtux.il ami I the prim provincialism of ol 1 Newb iryutt anl td uAted wltbln the autere Ihnlta tlomof I'lnkertonaemlemy, In New II imp-hire imp-hire Hut me iHinietlnie fin U a flamloR Ore Illy of trarl't amom the i ale blototn ofNewrngUndabllUldmi. Her mother lall to have ben Intel Irctuat anl high bred, hut rather iroul and reerrMi ber father brilliant, tenter, and prodigally I oapliable, and, withal, tie-cendrt tie-cendrt f(om whatDr Itoliurall ' the lJrahmln race of New Kngland Mr hit tier, many ear aii Ucritd Harriet Xrracottto mo a lUUrnte and hy a n wlllwood anemone Till wa a great al tick to pm-unctlred notion of tbe brll llantwrltrr UV1I II rtln her rhlllhon.1, the In dnced a playmate loatnrtolT with ter to fin I the' Jumping olTpUeMnf the wurl I, whkh her Imagination rlrllly pictured Orrat wa her lotlgnatlon to l brought I nick luomlnloutly by a kind farmer who found tbem footaore, but perterrlng, twn lullca from home Hbe wa the dtllLht of her glrllih friend by ber ability ti write ttrama er arhool eTblbltloua, many tf tbem rctlne ott a hlitorleal lwila. There drama hate aurvlvrd tbelr generation, and alxi aerveil the purpose of the tchool ortmlay Her but literary auccna wa wlunlng the rlio for an entity ou "Handel, of frcd to tie piilt of tho Nwburjjort frreKbool Tbla altracteit the attention ..fTlifnm. Urnlwortb ItlgKlnaon, whoae Lreuliialhbtdlactrndlbcr ability audeu couragrd aud dTelol her Renin A chll lUh frletuUhlp tpctweeu Horrid rrramtt and Ht n Itlchard H HpntTonl rip nifd Into UtrutUal.au 1 after many jrara culmlnnted lu marriage. Their only chll I dyifliC I" Infancy, lefta grief lu tho mot her a )erttbtllmhnotc!Trfd Until Mr. hltofford'a d-ath tbey epent a art of i very whiter at the far ler Houm, an I were l loved bya circle of lbton f rlrnda. Mr Harford atlll occui le t heir unique an I ex tu1altely Uoutlful home at iK-er Maud. lUturr-nely altuatdt Utwecn Newbury tortand Arofabury Orett pine trre rut one aide and the river rml Ing patt on the other make the aclulon complete, and j a few atep bring them tn the bridge, whence the atreel car leal to the two town Her aler, Mary N l'reacutt, wbo alo baa the gift of atury telling, ahare her liouie. Mr, fpofforda abort atorlea are fmiuentIyfeulntarlou rloi rait anl ber lat book wa a Juveullu atory, "TLa l.t Jewel," which n little ftlcu I jro-iiounce jro-iiounce "ierfeclly lovely " Name ofltu hare a jfcullar (It new t lhotertun Unrlnjt them, na If the good fairy at the era lie f orraaw the future er eonnllty. Aaln, a name 1 ttrnngtly 111 a lapted to Ita rcclj leut I) d you ever know a gawky woman namul (irate, and ndarL niuacular ouo whom fate ha 1 tin kindly chrUtened Ulyf Mr. HpnlTurd till a peraonal Incident tn tbt earn tine. One of tier colored am ant In aablng ton aiked perndialoti to nime her baby after her mlttrtaa, bufr wlten tbe little darky wa brought for tnieetlun It nime proved to lie (lenerleve Oh," aal 1 Mr. hpoffonU' thought alio wa to t culled Harrltt after me " Ob court, Alia I'uf fit," aal 1 the mother, "I ut you tee Oct e vlere 'eprctw ) on a aluht Utter'n Harriet doei." Hoalon Cor orccater 8py, |