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\ THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , flARCH 15 , 1907 Akmentos of a Poet. I. From Hi * Million Trnn&orl | > i. Lovers of Lonufellcnv , as well ns the bibliophiles , who attended the Longfellow Centenary exhi bition , open nil ] nst week in the Cambridge public library , had a 'treat. Never before has there been brought together such A col- \vrtion of the literary remnins of the poet. The newspaper read ing room is on the left and con tains two life sixe portraits by Healcy , on the right the full length standing figure of Long fellow , painted in 18d2 lor Fields V Osgoo < l , which has lately been exhibited at Rowland's Art gal lery , and which is understood to be for sale. On the left wall is the portrait painted by the same artist in Koine in 186'J , a very happy likeness of Longfellow , whose daughter Kditli is leaning over his shoulder. This is loaned bv Mrs. Richard II. Dana. Entering the Cambridge room the visitors find themselves face to face-with a wall lined with bookcases ; behind their glass doors we see a complete collection ot first editions 6f Longfellow's works , beginning with the- tiny loluhie of the United States Lit- er.try Gazette , dated lS2fi , and ending with the last printed lines 01 the poet in 1&S2. Attention is attracted to the bound proof sheets of "Iliawa- thi. " with rorrcrtions jn Mr. Longfellow's own hand\\riling , loaned by Stephen II. Wakeman OJ New York. These first edi tions are nearly all presentation copies and belonged either to the author himself or we're jjiveti by him to his friends , Charles Stun ner , Charles I31iot Norton , Na thaniel Hawthorne or James T. Fields , and are now the property of the Longfellow family. Har vard college library , Dowdoin college libriiry , Cambridge public library , Professor Norton , Mrs , Fields and Stephen II. Wakeman Ou one shelf are the text books in French , Spanish ami Italian , compiled with so much care by Prof. Longfellow. Here , too , is a manuscyipt volume of "Lectures on the Literature of the Middle Ages , " delivered by him at IJow- doin college in 1831 , together with Note Book No. 1 , con tain- ing extracts from foreign authors. A letter to his father describes hi ; > first course of lectures at t Harvard. An interesting shelf is that filled with early Knglish editi&iih. oiie of which has a most condescending preface. In the left-hand.corner of the room sev eral cases are devoted to Long- . fellow's works in foreign lan guages. French. Spanish , Italian , ( lerman , Swedish. Dutch , Nor wegian , Russian and Polish are noticeable. These are opened at the same page and form a com parative study in languages. "Rvangeline'1 and "Hiawatha' seem to be the most popular ol the longer poems to translators , The next case holds the rcccnl editions of the Riverside Press , including Prof. Norton's hioij raphy and the centenary illus trated edition of ' 'The Hanging : of the Crane. " These are exhib ited by Houghton , Mifilin it Co. as are also the original colora r drawings for the latter work it which hang on the wall. At the end of the room is ; crayon portrait of the poet' mother , loaned by Miss Ellen T Longfellow , an oil painting o the first Mrs. Henry W. Loii- } fcllowv loaned by Mrs. Thoma Wentworth Higginson , a n d photograph of the crayon hea by Kpuse of the second Mr ? Longfellow. Here , also , hang the portrait of the poet standin by his desk , painted by Thoimi Buchanan Read , in 1S50 , now th property of Thomas B. Aldricl On the long wall are the 1S-1 portrait of Mr. Longfellow b Thompson , an early portrait b ThomasBadget , and the one bi longing to Harvard c o 11 e g painted by Ernest W. Longfello in 1870. There is a copy of silhouette from Bowdoin collegi a collection of engraved portrait and photographs at various age : and silhouettes of his father and mother. ' In the glass pa s is a wealth of autographs. In the handwrit ing of Mr. Longfellow arc "The Arrow and the Song , " "The " Psalm ot Life , " "The Tartar Poems , " "The Children's Hour , " the first draft of "Excelsior , " written on tin- blank spaces of an invitation , the original manu scripts of "Outre Mer' ' ami "Hy perion , " and four large volumes of poems , including the famous "Fiftieth Anniversary at Bow doin , " "Paul Rcverc's Ride" and many others. There is an autograph copy of the first ending of "The Building of the Ship" of the "Poem to James T. Fields. " Not less in teresting than these is the scries of books given by their authors to Longfellow with dedications , " " "from the "Bigclow Papers" Homer Wilbur , " for instance and the poems addressed to him Lowell's ou his birthday in 1867. Dr. Holmes' two poems , one writ ten on his sailing for TCurope in KS08 , and the other , "Our Dead Poet. " Also letters from Thack eray , Charles Dickens and Alfred , LordTennyson ; froiuRalph Waldo Emerson , giving his opinion of "Hiawatha : " of Whittier , asking Longfellow to be the candidate of the Liberty party for Congress , and many other papers from Craigie house. We Arc All Brothers. We are all brothers. Some times we are prone to think the milk of human kindness ( lows sluggishly and the mantle of charity but a tigure of speech , and then will come , the test , and there will be no discord in the sweet &ong of brotherly love and friendship. We saw it last Sunday. Death called among us , one whom- society and the commercial mart had long since tossed into the discard. But at his bier was a minister of one of our leading churches and his choir softly chanted consoling anthems , while the concourse of live scores of mourners comprised Hie ( lower of the town's citi zenship. Why gathered these people at the fall of the lowly ? It was not to pajr tribute to genius , for of talents he had none. Neither had he won trophies of gold and silver and broad acres of fertjle lands. He had not fought and won a great battle. Nor was he hero , nor patriotnor philanthropist. Not a shimmer of halo. He was an outcast from foreign shores into whose dense mind the rays of the primer had never penetrated. A wreck.a victim of a b u r n i n g thirst , which uuquenched , finally con sumed. Hut the minister lound virtues to extol. The milk of human kindness began to How and eulogies fell trom every tongue and the poor outcast was laid away to his last sleep with his past forgotten and ilowers pinned to his memory. How dull and unmusical the world would be were it not tor this blessed mantle of charity. How like tinkling cymbals and sounding brass we would be come. Charity. How it exalts and purifies. And there art those that tell us there is nothing higher that when we go we go as does the beast o burden. OsnoiiN'K ( K A N s A s PAKMKK. "Provontlcs" will promptly ohcok i cold or the Grlpno when tukon early o at the "sncoite stage" Prevention cur seated colds as well , Prevontlc un llttlo candy cold euro tablet * , and Di Slioop , Uucinot Wl , will gladly inal you samples and a book on colds Tree if you will write him. The tnmplc prove their merit. Check early eold with proventius and btop Pnouiuunl liiSc ami 2 , " > e boxes , sold by all dealers How Did He Know. 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Sold by all dealers Mrs. George * Johnson am children returned to Palls Cib last Friday after spending i few days with the family of he brother , Lawrence Ellinger They came home with Mis ; Mary Ellinger , who had beei their guest. Mrs. Vad Dingman and son Earl wen home with Mrs. Johnson am remained until Sunday. Stell Press , A Correction. Falls City Tribune : In my first letter in January I wrote in one place that some parties said oranges don't get ripe at Baldwin v.ouuly.Al i' It was my mistake , because they didn't say oranges don't get ripe , but , they said , "Oranges freeze olT. " I also said , "some parties went down to hurt a certain man.1' I didn't mean that this party made a special trip to hurt a certain man , but t meant they hurt him by describ ing things only from the shady ide. If these parties didn't see inch encouragement down there fter the storm where all the reps were destroyed , I cannot lame them much. 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