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Show TIIE POET GONE. cTiuncs Ilussell Lowell Passes to the lSeyond. Hemorrhage ' and Latterly a Severe Type of liver Disease, the Cause of His Death. I Boston, Mass,, August 12. James Pitisst 11 Lowell, w hose death occurred here this morning at 2:10 o'clock, never inquired as to the nature of his malady. From inquiries it is ascertained that a cold had afflicted him almost constantly constant-ly of late, and that hemorrhages and latterly a severe type of liver disease was the cause ol his death. Lowell's health has been impaired ever since his return to this country in ISSo, after completing his diplomatic services abroad. A year and a half ago his condition con-dition became serious and a iatal termination ter-mination was feared. Mis. Burnett, his only child, has been w ith him constantly. She is his only near relative, except a brother, whose whereabouts are unknown. James Bussed Lowell, the distin-i distin-i guished poet, ex-minister to England .iiid professor of Belles-Lettres at Harvard Har-vard university, was born .February 22, lsUO, at Cambridge, Mass. He belonged be-longed to an old English family that settled in Massachusetts in 1C30. His father was Kev. Charles Lowell and his grandfather was lion. John J,owelI, one of the trainers of the constitution of Massachusetts. In 1853 Mr, Lowell was : appointed ;i 1 1 if ui ijt- .Vt't i'i JiVi-t u. Jt'..L"J iUii-f versity to succeed Longfellow who had resigned. hen the AlUntic Monthly was staried in 1857, he was made its editor-in-chief. In 1S73 Mr. Lowell was offered the Austrian mission, but declined; he subsequently sub-sequently in 1S76 accepted the Spanish portfolio and from there was trans-fend trans-fend in ISfSO to the court of St. James, which position he held until 1SS6. lie graduated ut Harvard college at the age of 1!) and was the class poet, lie then entered the law school and took the degree of LL. D., and later opened a law office in Boston. When but 22 ytv.rs old lie published a small volumn of poems entitled "A Year's Lile," and began his long series of contributions con-tributions to the leading magazines. In 1SS4 "A Legend of Brittany," "Prometheus," and some sonnets and miscellaneous poems were published. In ISIS he gave to the world the lirst series of his "B gelow Papers," the "Vision of Sir Latinlal,''antl the "Fable of Critics." "Fireside Travels" was published in 1SG4 and 'Under the "Willows" "Wil-lows" in 180S. This latter volume contains con-tains his "Commemorative Ode," which many regard as Mr. Lowell's greatest poem, though the one he read beneath the 'Washington Elm'"' July 4, lS7o, is perhaps i.s superior. Among Mr. ljow ell's late poems are "The Cathedral" and a second series of "Bigelow Papers." In lSeT a new eui-tion eui-tion of his complete works was published in live volumes, lie received in person at Oxford, during his sojourn in Europe Eu-rope in 1S72 to 1&74, the degree of D. C. L. ?dr. Lowell was twice married; in 1S44 to Miss Maria White, of Wake-town, Wake-town, w ho died in 1S-53. and in 1873 to Miss Francis Dunlop, of Portland, Me. Since his return from Europe he resided resid-ed with his daughter, the wife of Congressman Con-gressman Burnett, at Deertield farm. |