Show WHITTIER DESCRIBED ABROAD aleis he is frequently visited by his hia english admirers unlike the homes of his compeers com peers in american literature longfellow I 1 hucksoll luck soll and lowell nho mho lived among books and pictures and memorials of fellow workers in man many landi hinds there is nothing in Whit tiers house to sigm suggest 0 est lite poet an and d tile the man of letters tile the small parlor into which the visitor is shown I 1 I 1 is furnished wit with h the drears dreary y a and bowl mriln prim common places of hoi horsehair upholstery hols tery and the lie ohl od d conventional vent ional ornaments under glass 1 ass shades it might 0 be a dissenting ministers front room in ill some provincial en Engli lish sli town liko like leicester or northampton not yet reached by mhd iconoclasm of modern but NT Whit liers greet greeting nm of how do 10 theo to do im glad ad to ice sec chec dispels all 11 surprise by recalling the hie fact it thai al I 1 lie leis is not only a new englander which means simple 11 lii in ing from nece necessity s j ty but also a quaker which means calls simple living from choice 1 coincidence to explain even nn nil asceticism in air which horsehair horse hair should play a much wore more pait lie ile is n man mail of dight eli lit build and medium inedia nt height milli thin g gray J hair ind and a abitt white heard beard around his lips but with scarcely any ally other of tile the common signs of great ago S Al 10 lie c is i oil the lue eve ec of his 1113 seventy eighth blyth day iiii hn step is ii I 1 almost as quick ond and his gran W firm as ii they were halt half a ce can literl lairy ago naf tin and the soft dark c eyes cs for milicia his family ila has been noted for generations encia are arc still ciul in 1 I flash with the llie old lire fire when lien nc tells of tile stirring times in which his chief work was done mr Whit tiers study its ii a small samue room at the lite back of tile house heated ly by an iron stole stoic furnished een more simply tit alian tile the oilier rooms three portraits poi pot traits ore nrc 04 plia u walls the file first i is a large 1 argo 0 of if thomas starr king the inspired young boston preacher ghose eloquence all california it at ili alic 0 outbreak of the war of tho rebellion reo be lliott lie ile and the pacific rail hail loa load d 61 saved av cd tj west for the lie union is n lie rs gom gommert ment the others nie the arge alamea hijii o photograph of Hiner soil and a p proof roof engrav engraving a it of Abri abraham thain Li lincola Lin celii ucola on oil 01 one ijac ide of the study is a bookcase containing ropic scores of books old ones and on oil taja other a small desk at abich the poet doci doc ill his heitin Hi itin my letters average SS and 20 a day lie says and when im acla they azcui accumulate t late and then ahen I 1 get ct well I 1 wake milc myself sick arain tr trying ing to lo calu willi mith my aus answers era to them too loo many it is to be feared being requests for autor autographs mr speaks ns a a lie does docs evelyl bing else in ill tile the new en land fashion fan familiarly ili arly even carelessly with u fine denio decuio I 1 indifference to elegan cies of pronunciation slid and periods 0 4 P 0 0 lit in the retirement of his old ciomo mr whittier is frequently frequent ly visited by Us Ls jingoish Jin glish among the latest havo hava apen ir Matt matthiew liew A arnold r and mr bosic tip flip former foaud a striking instance of nil cul charin chann and livors lali ors strength 11 in i rural homes united to qa quote acte mr Ir bittiers description of his native state jr the person of tile the wife of a young w who was familiarly acquainted with nil all liis his writings both b olli in prose anil aid poetry a discovery which is said to have bave moved him almost to tears mr whittier dislikes ilist ikc for hita himself self biographies and aim biographers of course I 1 out am glad hp wi to have thee tell my iiii friends any thins tiling about mo 1110 they cate to know but bill such faino as a min man meta gets front from books written about him after lie is dead seems to tile inc worth very little I 1 lime hi 0 never thought of myself as a poet in ill tile sense in ne lie ube lac the word when we me speak of the great ports poets I 1 have just said front from time lime to tilde lime thin thins things 0 s I 1 had to hay and it lias has been a series of to me thit people should pay so much attention to them ind and thein so mum long but no one else m ill be surprised and whether it is the efat effect et of the roon noon or therit it is that the llie landscape is ij transfigured trans figured aral lit in tile light of lite poets for some reason or other lite journey buck to ill stun stull lakes our theonah theoli li a i here tile boil less bolly VIA und tile haystacks alay stacks less lix boli tury ami whets even tile the old seap oits becu not lot so much 1 I is peopled milli stir binm ini ill 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