Show holmes as a mn mitu cf of the world frank I 1 ehlies the life of a poet as of a prose author is most often ofte n uneventful 1 it rarely abounds in starling episode or dramatic sit situations nations the tile history of the triumphs of intellect and i imagination magi is usually quiet and nod often monotonous through out his sixty years of labor as a medical proffesor and is an author of prose and verse holms has lived in the midst midat 01 of r men either n cambridge or in boston with baumy buxy streets and many human be hes aa as familiar sights agh while clug h ithier has bas been secluded in depths of the country and has sun sung under tinder the quiet inspiration of il the I 1 lovely pai tural countryside of felax holms has ban always chosen to dwell with the compact multitude n tha metropolis of brisk and a nial dial social temper and with ami mi antly social tastes holmead has hao een in bia person the best beet known p u d must moist easily recognized of bos boa t dixi rap w yi ion ton poets throughout all thee the years and to day lay almost as much as a ever his email small well fortuen I 1 figure his hir oval face with ita its boap pill ping eyes its fridg of gray gay hair bair its lung long round beardless abi alna ani its dessa lf flat 4 smiling mouth have been taini faini lier fier to the to and fro in in bas B aton t on a crooked streets people wonder to see the lb acial activity the spring in the be at step a and n d the prom prompt pt de nervous r vo u 9 rait gait alti which ch tells so cheerful a story of ot preserved vitall vitality ity at the great age of eighty holme holmes too has bas as freely snug let led with men on public occasions and as cheerily and effectively taken his share in in them as he lie has made n de himself a well known boston ian lan on the streets how many feasts of reason and fancy lias has he graced how many neat nest little speeches in in honor of this or 0 r that brother man mail of letters or r brother roan man of medicine has he ran made de how flow often has the eagerly expectant company around the festive board seen him take from li s pocket a sheet ot of paper written over with his dainty and anti delicate cb chiro 0 graphy and aud rend the refry with with clear and well modulated voice some gem of ins his latest fancy some tribute to a great man mail dead or borne some good humored kasire on a foible of the dai day up to within a recent period holmes always for many years attended those brilliant of the saturday batur day C luh lub composed conio sed of the crane creme de la areme of the B ston ton literati where the bet be t the wisht the witti tat thing wa aid said on PV ev ry possible subject like browning holics has alya always been a thorough inan iman of the world enjoying enjoy ing society liking contact with humankind and ela ziad 1 to aniese and teach young andola and old |