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Show Mlttltlr' !- Murk. Bald the man at a buokstora "Tlis other tiny u customer catno In and asked for Whit tier's pioso works, and a juung man who was preseut laughed when the customer had tronoout I naked hint why, and he said that tho man wai ono of many Mho thought that because Whit-tier Whit-tier wruto poedry he must lavo written prose. Then It was my turn to laugh. Uut 1 am of tho opinion tint there aro many like tho yuuug man who laughed. Whlttlcr is an eumjUt, nnd his csinyi aro In volumes as nutiuroui as those of his poem. JnltUU-lthlnkltwAsalwut that j oar ho wrote a stirring pamphlet entitled Maitlcoaud Expediency. Tho same was a diicusalon of the slavery quuatloiL When tho Antlsta cry prty i r society was fonuod lu I'hlladcli hia ho w as one of the delegates, und ho w rote nu account of the procuo lings of that society soci-ety which (s still jnuted I call to mind romo of tho ol 1 (Quaker poo fa prose stories: sto-ries: lho I'Uli 1 Didn't Catch,' Taw-tncket Taw-tncket Falls, 'Vankee (l)pdcs, 'My bummer with Dr. bingletary, 11ie City of a 1) i) ,' 'Tho llvroino of Long Point,' 'Ageucy of L'vil,' There are others I do not Just nt this mmneut think of Hat Whlttlcr w as as gnat In prose ps In f wo Ho belonged to tho school which was coin posed of Kmerson, Longfellow, yiw-ell yiw-ell and Holmes. Thoro aro not miuy of them left w hen you como to think of It" Chicago Tribune. |
