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Show LIST OF LITERARY SHRINES Those of America by no Means New, When One Calls to Mind the Famous Names. The editor and his caller, each returning re-turning from a different part of the world, wero on tho subjoct of litorary shrines. "What would be gonorally regarded as tho ten literary shrines of America?" Ameri-ca?" queried tho former. Well they began to enumorate them and to Jot the names down on a piece of paper. Idly well, thero are the Hawthomo and Emerson Iioubos in Concord, tho Lowell and 1 otigfet-low otigfet-low houses In Cambridge Poe's cot-tago cot-tago In Fordham, Cooper's palaco, Otsego Hall at Cooperstown, Bryant's modest residenco east of the Berk-shires Berk-shires at Cummlngton, tho Tlcknor houso In Boston this, principally by reason of Its notod visitors, and chief among them Thackeray-Whltman'a home In Camden, Irvlng's at Sunny-side, Sunny-side, and but that makes ten already, without counting Drake's grave In tho little burying ground at Hunt's Point, N. Y., which, Judging by the letters that appeared with such frequency la the metropolitan papers for decades concerning the disrepair into which the memorial erected above It had fallen, would seem to be one of the most Important of all. Well, that's eleven, anyway, and probably two or threo more ought to be added, either In place of some ot those already accepted provisionally, or to awell the total to an Irreducible minimum of, say, fifteen. We note that there Is not one from the south on the list, and we are looking to our southern friends to make good this omission In letters that will flood the editorial desk by each mail every day for a week or so after the publication pub-lication ot this number. Surely the south must have at least one shrine a purely literary shrine, that Is, and not maroly a composite literary and political shrine like Montloello, to which wo domur-In advance. And tho west, too but there tho shrlnos, while ripening rapidly (wo suspect that there will bo an actlvo Riley shrlno somo day at Indianapolis, for example) exam-ple) aro a little groon as yot to bo picked for our present purposes. From tho Bookman. |