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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 96 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 60636 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69 Mr. 63 New 44 man 42 Mrs. 41 York 36 time 36 Boston 34 England 33 day 26 John 26 God 21 like 21 life 21 Dr. 20 american 19 good 19 London 18 year 17 Miss 15 Henry 14 St. 14 Emerson 13 George 12 great 12 West 11 old 11 William 11 Washington 11 Howells 11 Hartford 11 General 10 little 10 letter 10 Clemens 9 Virginia 9 Mark 9 James 9 Concord 9 Charles 9 Cambridge 8 look 8 Twain 8 Paris 8 Mississippi 8 Louis 8 English 7 work 7 english 7 States 7 Orleans Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 14327 man 13948 time 13370 day 10831 year 9000 life 6847 book 6820 thing 6281 way 5722 letter 5607 work 5459 friend 5180 house 4778 place 4358 hand 4348 world 4306 story 4202 one 4154 night 3825 people 3638 word 3567 child 3491 home 3279 room 3203 mind 3172 nothing 3142 heart 3108 part 3077 woman 3036 eye 2974 hour 2928 boy 2889 name 2879 something 2848 country 2745 morning 2694 fact 2565 end 2551 family 2534 mother 2494 side 2492 head 2389 author 2338 father 2315 foot 2311 water 2279 face 2268 moment 2250 thought 2246 week 2239 matter Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 32251 _ 7196 Mr. 4880 Mrs. 4829 New 4631 Clemens 2959 Mark 2875 York 2778 Twain 2547 Emerson 2324 John 2033 England 2006 Boston 1904 Dr. 1817 God 1655 Miss 1526 London 1430 Kentucky 1424 Henry 1375 America 1373 Howells 1234 George 1166 St. 1095 James 1066 William 1062 Harte 1043 Washington 1038 Carlyle 1019 General 1017 Charles 956 May 952 English 949 Concord 945 H. 899 Street 897 American 877 Poe 876 West 875 Bret 847 House 841 W. 826 S. 814 Sunday 787 States 779 Sam 767 Irving 767 California 753 Thoreau 745 Lord 730 Holmes 726 April Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 96154 i 68219 it 67691 he 25201 you 22833 we 22524 me 21554 him 18723 they 14514 she 13078 them 7523 us 5958 her 4203 himself 2934 myself 1650 one 1507 itself 1339 themselves 866 herself 589 yours 564 yourself 498 ourselves 420 mine 215 thee 169 his 148 ours 145 ''em 90 theirs 84 hers 73 ''s 20 ye 19 thyself 19 oneself 17 em 11 yourselves 7 i’ve 6 you''re 4 thy 4 i''m 4 hisself 4 harvey,--i 4 --they 3 yrs 3 je 3 howells,--i 3 him,-- 3 hawaii.  3 be.  3 aldrich 2 yu 2 you.  Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 205804 be 79655 have 25380 do 17759 say 14964 go 13938 make 13449 come 13105 see 11040 know 10462 write 9357 take 8479 give 7900 get 7786 find 7543 think 6217 seem 5554 tell 5467 look 4703 read 4320 call 4292 leave 4279 feel 4152 hear 4023 become 3935 live 3837 begin 3456 bring 3346 speak 3305 keep 3218 send 3201 stand 3045 put 3041 ask 2899 pass 2887 want 2872 follow 2773 remember 2663 sit 2662 let 2645 meet 2550 bear 2503 believe 2488 use 2431 try 2362 show 2267 hold 2255 turn 2240 set 2199 return 2175 appear Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 41597 not 16851 so 11764 more 9799 very 9583 good 9555 up 9467 then 9065 great 8910 now 8756 little 8456 old 8197 only 8119 out 7930 well 7885 other 7655 never 7642 first 7115 long 7050 much 6678 most 6502 as 6173 many 6049 here 5431 there 5332 own 5214 down 5043 always 4997 last 4952 even 4858 ever 4763 too 4618 still 4499 such 4481 again 4462 just 4182 young 4079 new 3971 once 3870 away 3538 also 3510 back 3481 few 3472 far 3467 all 3421 same 3028 yet 2895 early 2833 high 2774 on 2690 in Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2512 good 1670 most 1503 least 623 great 396 high 301 bad 272 fine 253 early 197 late 195 Most 150 near 148 eld 138 young 131 large 123 slight 123 old 113 deep 110 small 109 happy 105 dear 96 noble 85 strong 73 lovely 72 low 69 rich 59 simple 59 long 54 sweet 52 full 50 bright 48 true 48 pure 47 big 46 pleasant 44 bl 43 keen 40 close 39 fair 38 warm 38 manif 37 wise 36 rare 36 hard 34 gentle 32 poor 32 able 31 dark 30 short 30 grand 29 cheap Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5008 most 306 well 233 least 14 hard 12 long 9 goethe 6 oftenest 5 highest 3 worst 3 easiest 2 soon 2 ordainest 2 finest 1 ¦ 1 youngest 1 wisest 1 wickedest 1 struck,--first 1 sorriest 1 somewhither 1 sojourner 1 shyest 1 richest 1 quick 1 poem,--of 1 own,--the 1 noblest 1 near 1 months,--we 1 lowest 1 lightest 1 lest 1 latest 1 it--"the 1 impossible—most 1 hopes.--the 1 heartiest 1 happiest 1 greatest 1 gracefulest 1 gentlest 1 gazin 1 farthest 1 farest 1 fairest 1 early 1 deepest 1 darkest 1 coldest 1 cleverest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 www.gutenberg.org 3 archive.org 2 www.archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45523/45523-h/45523-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45523/45523-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38889/38889-h/38889-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38889/38889-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31814/31814-h/31814-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31814/31814-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29314/29314-h/29314-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29314/29314-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28791/28791-h/28791-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28791/28791-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/literaryshrinesh00wolfrich 1 http://www.archive.org 1 http://archive.org/details/littlepilgrimage00harkiala 1 http://archive.org/details/famousauthersmen00harkrich 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 2 ccx074@pglaf.org Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56 _ is _ 34 _ do _ 33 _ was _ 30 clemens was not 29 one does not 28 _ have _ 25 clemens did not 24 _ did _ 23 _ are _ 21 _ had _ 19 clemens had not 19 life was not 17 _ am _ 17 _ do n''t 17 _ see _ 16 book was not 16 work was not 15 man is not 15 one does n''t 15 people do not 14 house was not 14 world has ever 13 _ has _ 13 _ know _ 13 life is not 13 one is not 12 _ be _ 12 life is so 11 one had ever 11 things are so 10 _ think _ 10 men do not 9 _ is not 9 _ were _ 9 clemens was ready 9 days were not 9 man was not 9 people were not 9 time went on 9 years went on 8 clemens was willing 8 life was so 8 man had not 8 man was ever 8 one did not 8 one has ever 8 people did not 8 people do n''t 7 _ does not 7 _ knew _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 clemens had not yet 3 clemens was no less 3 house is no longer 2 _ was no longer 2 book had not yet 2 book was no longer 2 book was not quite 2 book was not yet 2 books are no good 2 books were not worth 2 children were not entirely 2 clemens did not greatly 2 clemens gave no account 2 clemens had no reason 2 clemens had no such 2 clemens has not as 2 clemens was not always 2 clemens was not at 2 clemens was not heavily 2 clemens was not likely 2 clemens was not unwilling 2 clemens was not wholly 2 day have no rival 2 days were not so 2 house had no name 2 house is not merely 2 house was not large 2 house was not merely 2 house was not unsentient 2 letter got no further 2 letters are not usually 2 letters were not many 2 life is not so 2 life was not necessary 2 man does not so 2 man gets no pension 2 man had not strength 2 man is no longer 2 man was not enthusiastic 2 night be not only 2 nights were not frequent 2 one had not much 2 one is not interested 2 one is not likely 2 time is not distant 2 words were not much 2 work was not at 2 work was not burdensome 2 work was not yet 2 world was not so Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 518779 2988 163002 22030 161469 38035 155281 6702 146874 28791 130938 22329 126981 405 125453 39407 122303 39406 118546 34940 117107 36720 115486 38049 112405 32603 111964 19987 110590 33345 103807 12700 101079 13106 95891 13105 94906 2987 94052 26910 89485 2982 89472 13583 88120 45165 86226 2984 86005 13660 85999 2512 84836 37834 84243 2985 82466 3463 82113 2986 81666 8777 69860 51426 67436 8222 66734 6561 66245 3195 66088 318 65896 8089 65108 15984 64780 8641 64746 2293 62120 8088 61770 37878 55317 29314 54649 8479 54322 34313 52174 14658 46655 10605 45372 33930 45003 45610 44901 45523 44055 11249 41021 38889 40234 10593 40178 16622 38960 31814 36918 28635 35624 10592 34136 40898 31132 3398 27519 3390 25740 8589 24131 36661 23936 8482 22552 8587 22455 8586 22345 8582 22107 8588 22010 37300 21020 25908 20065 8583 17832 8584 17540 8585 16174 16931 14405 8473 14094 406 13664 8471 13564 8476 13500 8481 12845 3393 12407 3392 12304 8472 11746 8477 11195 8474 11007 3394 10776 3396 10589 3395 9490 38132 8355 8478 8228 8475 8046 8480 7352 726 7237 3397 6994 377 5432 3391 2746 25915 3399 Readability of items; 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"In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10592 "You''re just the sort of a man," he said, "that we''d like to have in our "David," said Harriet, presently, "the cousins can''t come!" "David," he said finally, "I sometimes think we don''t know half as much "Yes, sir, Dr. McAlway," the man said, "I was coming across the bridge "Great things are possible," he said, "to the man of ideas." but to the other I said little, feeling my way slowly to his friendship, "It''s all right," I said; "a great many people coming this way in the "You see, sir," he said, "when a man has got the best thing in the "We all know the longing for old places and old times," I said. saw, indeed, at the time that I had not said the right thing; but how "Well, Dick," said I, "we''ve had a good day''s work together." 10593 Of all times of the day for good odours I think the early morning the times I know Esau to the core: the forthright, nature-loving, simple man And it was a fine adventure to know old friends in new ways, for I had man my old friend is, and when all is said, it would be a fine thing to As I said, I came often to the field below Old Howieson''s farm. the old man saw me coming and going, for the road winds along the side it was a long time before I came face to face with Old Man Howieson. time, these brisk winter days, I like to walk across the fields to come to know a man that we can see how wonderful his life has been. "Fine job, that," said he, and I looked for the first time in my life at 10605 a pleasure to have the old man read the deed, looking at me over his vines around the house (Waste of time, said Horace), and that no farmer "Horace," I said, looking him straight in the eye, "did you call me For a time--how long I do not know--I stood thinking. "Yes, they reach out for a better chance in life--like men. looked out across the wonderful shining country and I said to myself: The young man asked some question and I distinctly heard Harriet''s "I understand," I said, "but you know I''m giving the books to you--and I "Why does a man like you," he asked finally, "waste himself on a little "Let me know when you grease up again," he said, "and I''ll come over." "It seems a pity to go to church on a day like this," I said to Harriet. "I know," he said, as if reading my thought, "you think"--and he tapped 11249 As soon as he reached New York, Irving went to the governor and But now, fifty years after his death, we see how great a man Poe was. When Poe was young he was not a very remarkable poet; but, as years When one day he went home with this friend, he met Mrs. Stanard, a lovely, gentle, and gracious woman, was thrilled by the The next time his friend went to see Poe he In the preface to this volume, Poe says that the poems were written Says Poe: "He has been at all times a true friend to "The Raven" was published in New York just two years before Mrs. Poe write, his work was not at all good; as years went on, he learned by like Poe who writes to illustrate and explain some great principle. Poe had the hardest time of his life when he was at New York, living 12700 "All men of gifted intellect and fine genius," says Charles Emerson, Mr. John Lowell Gardner, a college classmate and life-long friend of Mr. Emerson, has favored me with a letter which contains matters of a growing power of thought, it was natural that Emerson should turn from Emerson wrote "Nature," and in the same room, some years later, Emerson, "and if you do not like New England well enough to stay, one of Nature.--Other Addresses: Man the Reformer.--Lecture on the Times.--The Nature.--Other Addresses: Man the Reformer.--Lecture on the Times.--The of his Mode of Life in a Letter to Carlyle.--Death of Emerson''s of his Mode of Life in a Letter to Carlyle.--Death of Emerson''s These facts, Emerson says, have always suggested to man that the Emerson''s works, namely, "Nature, Addresses, and Lectures," and In writing of "Shakespeare; or, the Poet," Emerson naturally gives write of Emerson than this high-minded and brave-souled man, who did not (See _Emerson''s Books_,--Nature.) 13105 crisis of youth I owe the true life,--the love of Truth and persons study human nature in its universal laws, and become great her mind,--to understand her aims, her hopes, her views of life. "Here let me say a word respecting the character of Margaret''s mind. knew; her light was life, was love, was warm with sympathy and a ennobled humanity into ideal beauty, Margaret saw all her friends thus in life,--seeing with ready eye the beauty of Nature and of opinions of a great man, who had made good use of time; but Margaret, like every really earnest and deep nature, felt the romances of life and love had been confided, counselled, thought, and Margaret was one of the few persons who looked upon life as an Margaret''s love of beauty made her, of course, a votary of nature, but Margaret''s love of art, like that of most cultivated persons in this 13106 ''I feel that my impatient nature needs the dark days. best-loved friends; and she wished to communicate the graceful story Sometime, in God''s good time, let me live as For life''s worst ills, to have no time to feel them. ''But at such times the soul rises up, like some fair child in great-souled friend spent some days with us nearly two years great powers of nature, harmonizing with all beauty of the soul or affection in life, glorious moments, great thoughts?--why must they be opened them with more feeling of hope and good cheer, than for a long care of myself." Again, two days later, she says:--"I feel, love, a this, I hope your heart will be happy; for I still like to know that soon now I must do something, and hope I shall feel able when the time natural life, _at home_, learning of my child, and writing only when 13583 Must lecture in America or write a book.--Wordsworth.--Sterling. one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom Thanks, my kind friend, for the news you again send me. wishes to that new fair Friend of ours, whom one day we shall good wishes, a copy of his little work, lately published, on our I write the day after your letter comes, I ought to say, however, that about New-year''s-day I will send about New-Year''s-Day, the preceding letter. Almost a month ago there went a copy of a Book called _French a good book, I know,) I shall sustain with great glee the new hope, got the letter sent nearly a month ago, giving account of letters: and you are a good and generous man to write so many. Dear Friend,--Some four days ago I wrote you a long Letter, letter you had said too much good of my poor little arid book,-- 13660 likeness.--Fifty years old.--Rides.--Emerson''s voice wholly delay.--Writing new book.--Delight in proposed bequest.--Advice have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that preceding letter:--"How many things this book of Carlyle gives us Dear Emerson, Some ten days ago came your Letter with a new Draft Dear Emerson,--There had been a long time without direct news world.--By the way, if that good Clark _like_ his business, let Dear Emerson,--Your two Letters* have both come to hand, the last little Boston Newspaper you send!* A small hatchet-faced, grayeyed, good-humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Dear Emerson,--We received your Letter* duly, some time ago, with Dear Emerson,--Your Letter came ten days ago; very kind, and at last returned all with this word, "If you write to Mr. Carlyle, you may say to him, that I _have_ read these books, Dear Emerson,--Three days ago I at last received your Letter; 14658 the car-ends are not "blind." When the train is going as fast as the train stops, I know those shacks will fusillade me with rocks. mile, I rise to my feet and walk down the train half a dozen cars. right, I''ll give him the run of his life, for my wind is good. went like clockwork, fifteen seconds to a hobo--and thirty days. "Thirty days," said his Honor, and called another hobo''s name. judge began talking at the same time, and he said, "Thirty days." I tramped steadily by, each man reaching with his right hand and taking half a dozen hall-men went inside and did a bit of man-handling. at night, for speed, and in the day-time riding in box-cars and see our hands in front of our faces, like a pair of blind men we The freight got under way, and we lay down in one end of the box-car 15984 Washington Irving was born in the city of New York, April 3, 1783. settling in New York William Irving quit the sea and took to trade, in New York at the time of our author''s birth was a rural city of about Irving''s first literary publication was a series of letters, signed Irving at this time of life seemed always waiting by the pool for some Irving to write for him a love-letter, containing an offer of his heart The business of the Irving brothers soon absorbed all Washington''s time The most anxious time of Irving''s life was the winter of 1815-16. family at Birmingham, Irving tarried for a few days at a country place long as Irving remained in Spain, and gave to his diplomatic life I feel that this study of Irving as a man of letters would be was the great achievement of Irving''s life. 16622 At the time of the Poet-wanderer''s return to Baltimore his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, had her humble but neat and comfortable home on Eastern Avenue, Near old St. John''s in Richmond was the home of Mrs. Shelton, who, as In the spring of 1863, on a visit to his old home in Macon, Lanier met In the latter part of the year Lanier was living at Number 180 St. Paul Street, and in December he wrote to a friend: At that time in the old city was another picturesque home that harked In this old home the Poet of the Pines was born of a family that days of his sad and broken life William Gilmore Simms came to renew Thompson called it, the two old friends spent together the spring days parlors when the sad old house was a bright, beautiful home. brought a new South to take the place of the old plantation life. 16931 The nature of Franklin''s own education accounts for many of his opinions Washington as a man of homely virtues, giving our far-removed generation discipline of real life and the late age at which our educated young men world which gives most thought, time, and money to education, public Emerson taught that it is the office of art to educate the of the new tendencies in American education and social life, when he ultimate object of art in education is to teach men to see nature to be Emerson are fundamental; but the American institutions of education are to carry into practice Emerson''s wisdom of sixty years ago. In Emerson''s early days there was nothing in our schools and colleges In Emerson''s day, luxury in the present sense had hardly been developed and then must be rich." He foresaw the young man''s state of mind to-day The essence of Emerson''s teaching concerning man''s nature is compressed 19987 doubtless dead by this time, a man with a name like that couldn''t live his life several times every year, and always in new and increasingly father''s house in Elmira, New York, and went next day, by special train, I said, "I think he has got all the vegetables he wants and is coming up matters which he hoped to be able to dictate next day; and he said time." From Susy''s nursery days to the end of her life, she and her that dinner of sixteen years ago, for he said the same thing to me about believe I was never so happy in my life, except the time, a few years my mother went with him to the head of the stairs and said good-by years ago, and I used to tell it a number of times--a good many He said his granddaughter, twelve years old, had read my books and 22030 had very little liking, to come and visit her, I replied with great I recollect, also, that one day, when poring over the pictures in a toybook, my Uncle Amos calling me a good little boy for so industriously For a short time, while five or six years old, and living at Mrs. Eaton''s, I was sent to a school of boys of all ages, kept by a man named certain minor art-work classes established in the East End of London, Mr. Walter Besant said to me that I would find a less gentle set of pupils. Of all the men whom I met in those days in the way of business, Mr. Barnum, the great American humbug, was by far the honestest and freest Now, at this time there came about a very great change in my life, or an very good friends, and this little incident had in time for me great 22329 West Salem was like a scene on the stage that day--a setting for a rural William Dean Howells in New York City, and the day following I read some eat in our living room; and when I said "Mother, one of these days I''m a literary sense, carried me a long way and into a new world. day my mind went back to my mother waiting in the snow-covered little "There''s your new father," I said, pointing him out to Zulime, "and that the tense look on Zulime''s face gave place to a smile.--Half an hour "Oh, but it is good to be home," she said as we reached the old house, announce a House Warming, and on New Year''s Day, Zulime and I were times each day he came into the house to say, "Well, how is my All that day I went about the house with my children like one whose 2293 I should like far better to listen to my girl-readers'' thoughts about little sister, at play in a garden where I can at any time return and "before I was a little girl, and came here to live"; and it did seem to My sister prepared a neat little writing-book for me, and told me not and beautiful world belongs to God. I took exception to some verses in many of the hymns that I loved the like being nothing in particular--neither a child nor a little girl, people who lived near us were very rich, like those in books. I began to know that I liked poetry, and to think a good deal about it There was many a young girl near me whose life was like the beautiful beautiful little niece, to whom she could go home when the day''s work Like most young girls, I had a motherly fondness for little children, 2512 like, “Not yet, but soon.”  And Charmian cheered the water is a friend of mine.”  “If I was put and I have sailed every sea and ocean.”  And he winds board?  You’re not a navigator, are you?”

Snark.  “The sea is filled with life.  It at Niihau there was a man—”  And at that moment doesn’t stand still.”  Very true, but the water five hundred feet to the sea.  This was a day’s work blowing.  How the Snark’s sails manage to feel

“Get out of the way!  I’m coming!” I

“I’ll be all right,” he said. 

“I don’t know,” I answered. 

“We can’t wait,” I said.  “This the Snark’s deck.  For twelve days, at anchor, for men, doesn’t run on time.  When I discovered this,

Heavens!  The Snark’s time was not as good the Snark it was only 8:9.  “Greenwich time to,” quoth Mr. Caulfeild.  “That’s old 25908 New York "Morning Chronicle," for which Irving presently wrote a Irving''s professional life as a literary man. begun to appear; at this time Irving had the field to himself. Murray, who a little later was eager to publish anything from Irving''s In August of this year, Irving and his brother Peter left England for the most interesting entries records that Irving at this time wrote More than thirty years after, Irving had a letter from a Mrs. Emily which expressed itself in the most amusing letter Irving ever wrote:-Irving had now given his brother Peter a place in his little ménage. and impersonally in the mind, a mere great man, when Irving with a During the years of Irving''s stay abroad other American writers had the period: "We are proud of Mr. Irving''s sketches of English life, 1841, Irving wrote to Dickens, expressing pleasure in his work. year, at my time of life. 25915 While "_The Choir Invisible_" was primarily a love story, the setting handling of human passion and the harmony of thought and expression Mabie is attracted more by the landscape beauty of Mr. Allen''s work, and he too makes an original contribution to our subject. "No American novelist has so imbedded his stories in Nature as has In _Summer in Arcady_ a deeper note in the treatment of Nature was distinctive in Mr. Allen''s work from the first written page. short, in _The Choir Invisible_ Mr. Allen has come to that stage of laid to rest in the contemplation of Mr. Allen''s new work which is and noblest work Mr. Allen has yet done, both in respect of that human life of the Kentucky which he loves so well. A new and complete edition of Mr. Allen''s works is now being issued by Reign of Law, A Story of the Kentucky Hemp Fields_, an account of which 26910 Here is a man who in twenty years writes in round numbers My father died when I was about seven years old, says the author of From the time that he was three years old he read ''But never mind,'' said Browning, ''he writes like an angel.'' Carlyle is a great man, but I always wish he would write way these kind folks regard a man; they read our books as if we were latter years of his life she never left him for a night, and her days was thirty years old before he thought of writing, and his life was As I said, Cooper was thirty years old before he began to write. New York having told me that he took great pleasure in reading the manners and conversation than he was in years; more like a man of great delight at meeting the poet, and talked with him a long time, 28635 the chamber door of a young and particularly pretty widow named Mrs. Raymond, who boarded in the house. course I said nothing about Anderson and Mrs. Romaine. After a little while Jack saw me; and, having taken a good long stare at On seeing her husband enter in that furious and threatening manner, Mrs. Romaine, overcome with fear and shame--for she well knew that her guilt "This is my room, and my only one; don''t laugh at it," said Mrs. Raymond, with a melancholy smile. "My dear friend," said Mrs. Raymond, accompanying her words with a look "My dear friend," said Mrs. Raymond to me one day, as we were strolling said Mrs. Raymond, with a bitter smile, as she placed her hand in her A few days after our arrival in Philadelphia, Mrs. Raymond said to me-"My friend," said she to me one day, "I shall not long survive this 28791 He also told us how his father and mother came west by way of the Erie day, I heard my father read to my mother a paragraph from the county Father explained that the men usually worked all day at one farm and One day there came into our home a strange man who spoke in a fashion Finally the day came when the ground rang like iron under the feet of For seventy days I walked behind my plow on the new farm while my father prairie cocks began to boom, and then at last came the day when father''s Garland, my father''s brother who came to visit us at about this time was Harriet came home from school each Friday night but we saw little of One day, soon after the death of my sister Harriet, my father came home my father who had kept my mother always on the border, working like a 29314 river-valley, a purple strip of high mountains rolling away to the the grassy hills of Galilee, looking upon the faces and the ways of the long, steep valley leading into the heart of the hills. cities are, after all, but a little longer-lasting tents and camps. Outside the gates we ride, for the roads which encircle the city wall _The cities are scattered over the world like ant-hills: the tents in a new place, on a hill opposite the Jaffa Gate, with a Northward, beyond the city-gate, the light fell softly on a little rocky hill, shaped like a skull, the ancient place of stoning for those whom Valley, runs the Jordan Bed, twisting like a big green serpent. our little stream plunges, and look down into the deep, grand valley of hills, and open to the cloudless sky which makes its water like a little THE CITY THAT A LITTLE RIVER MADE 2982 Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time ago." John Clemens believed that the years lay not far distant when the land The family at this time occupied a log house built by John Clemens the little lad whom the world would one day know as Mark Twain. later, the Clemens family gathered tearfully around Little Sam''s bed to early when Judge Clemens got up to saddle his horse, and Little Sam was Little Sam, then--saw an old man shot down on the main street, at Tom Blankenship one morning came to Sam Clemens and John Briggs and said If your memory extends so far back, you will recall a little sandyhaired boy--[The color of Mark Twain''s hair in early life has been So Sam Clemens got the little book, and presently it "fairly bristled" As long as he lived Samuel Clemens would return to those old days 2984 Howells, working like a beaver, in turn urged Clemens to setting that Mark Twain loved, and as he read there came a correlative Cord, by great presence of mind and bravery saved the lives of Mrs. Clemens''s sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles ("Charley") Langdon, her little The "Mark Twain" party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens, Miss In a written word of good-by to Howells, Clemens remembered a debt of A letter written by Mrs. Clemens at the time "General, let me present Mr. Clemens, a man almost as great as yourself." Last night, when I went to bed, Mrs. Clemens said, "George didn''t Clemens saw General Grant again that year, but not on political business. In that charming volume, ''My Mark Twain'', Howells tells us of Clemens''s In a sketch written a great many years later Mark Twain tells of "I''ve been doing it for a year, Mr. Clemens," I said. 2985 Clemens read a notable paper that year before the Monday Evening Club. Clemens'' note-books of this time are full of the vexations of his example--and we have been a long time in coming to him--Mark Twain. of his program told a Mark Twain story, at which Mrs. Clemens and the By the time the Grant episode had ended Clemens had no reason to believe By the end of ''88 the income from the books and the business and Mrs. Clemens''s Elmira investments no longer satisfied the demands of the With this work out of his hands, Clemens was ready for his great new On that day Clemens wrote in his note-book: long-neglected tale of Joan--"a book which writes itself," he wrote Mr. Rogers"--a tale which tells itself; I merely have to hold the pen." "Mr. Clemens, I have been wanting to know you a long time," and he was 2986 Five days after Mark Twain''s return to America, his old friend Clemens, the man, rather than to Mark Twain, the literate. Howells at the time expressed an amused fear that Mark Twain''s Meeting Beard a few days later, Clemens mentioned the matter and said: "We had a noble good time in the yacht," Clemens wrote Twichell on their He once told Howells, with the wild joy of his boyish heart, how Mrs. Clemens found some compensation, when kept to her room by illness, in the Mark Twain was the only man who ever lived, so far as we know, whose of years, by which time Clemens''s active interest was a good deal Twain was "the greatest man of his day in private life, and entitled to Clemens, coming to say good night, saw a little group about her bed, Clemens said very little at the time. 2987 Clemens said that his first word of the matter had been a newspaper In a dictation following his return, Mark Twain said: In the library Clemens was presented to a Mr. Pole, a plain-looking man, sleep reading his books, and then he came down to personal things and shocked to read on a great placard, "Mark Twain Arrives: Ascot Cup DEAR, KIND MARK TWAIN,--For years I have wanted to write and thank think we could have sat there and let the days and years slip away this time, but long enough to cure him, he said, and he came back full of played billiards for a time, then set out for a walk, following the long Mark Twain''s second present came at Christmas-time. One of the pleasant things that came to Mark Twain that year was the In a letter which Clemens wrote to Miss Wallace at this time, he tells of 2988 Mark Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time of the little lad whom the world would one day know as Mark Twain. Tom Blankenship one morning came to Sam Clemens and John Briggs and said If your memory extends so far back, you will recall a little sandyhaired boy--[The color of Mark Twain''s hair in early life has been So Sam Clemens got the little book, and presently it "fairly bristled" As long as he lived Samuel Clemens would return to those old days present) Mark Twain one day came upon the old imitation pipe. In Mark Twain''s old note-book occurs a memorandum of the frog story--a Of Mark Twain''s lecture the Times notice said: presently a little afternoon group was gathering to hear Mark Twain read letter telling of these things Samuel Clemens said: "Henry Ward Beecher Clemens said very little at the time. 318 life lives, and John Barleycorn gives them the lie." I was five years old the first time I got drunk. To this day I conquer it every time I take a drink. until, after long years, the time should come when I would look up John made men happy in spending good money for beer for a fellow like me who that I was a good fellow ashore with my money, buying drinks like a man. wharf and got ashore in the congregating places of men, where drink Drink as I would, I couldn''t come to like John Barleycorn. Nelson had seen drink-crazed men, and thought I wanted to throw myself And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he I never took a drink until my day''s work of writing I took another drink every time John Barleycorn reminded me of what 31814 In the first ten years that Colden lived in New York he wrote In the far down-town business section of New York, there is a street Wall Street, close by the house where Alexander Hamilton lived, who in years, was to leave the humble house in Nassau Street, to live in the [Illustration: MAP OF STREETS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1827.] walked along the streets of New York for the first time. Paulding lived with William Irving in the Vesey Street house for nine At the time that Cooper lived in New York there walked along Broadway, Chapel Street, to the house where at that time he made his home. For nine years after The Mad Poet went to the Chapel Street house his from his last city home in Greene Street to live out the remaining house near Washington Square, where he lived for some years and wrote 3195 month, I said "this ain''t no time to be publishing books; therefore, let elected I think the entire country will go pretty straight to--Mrs. Howells''s bad place. Mark Twain was writing few letters these days to any one but Clemens one day called with a letter of introduction from Howells, Beginning at the star with the words, "The criticisms were just." Mrs. Clemens says, "Don''t ask that of Mr. Howells--it will be disagreeable In a former letter we have seen how Mark Twain, working on a story I wrote you a very long letter a day or two ago, but Susy Crane wanted He was writing few letters at this time, and doing but little work. ALLERHEILIGEN Aug. 5, 1878 8:30 p.m. Livy darling, we had a rattling good time to-day, but we came very near In a letter from London, Howells writes of the good times he is 32603 Mrs. Jameson''s visit to the United States, in the year 1835, gave me the He said to his wife, "My dear, Mrs. Howe wishes to know afterwards said to an American friend, "Mrs. Howe was quite cruel to He came to my husband''s office one day, and said, "Howe, In the most trying days of the civil war, this same old lady came to Dr. Howe''s office, anxious to learn his opinion concerning the progress of friend received us with a warm welcome, and presently said to me, "Mrs. Howe, you must speak to my men." Feeling my utter inability to do this, of my good friends said, "Mrs. Howe ought to die now, for she has done me for my speech, but said, "Oh, dear Mrs. Howe, why did you speak of calls on Mrs. Howe''s father on New Year''s Day, 32; 33345 at the Molyneuxs'' house with his great-aunt, Mrs. Brenane, the Rev. Thomas Hearn is still remembered as a prominent figure in the Roman In a letter written from Japan to his half-sister, Mrs. Atkinson, Lafcadio declares that he was sent to a school "kept by a [6] "The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn," Houghton, Mifflin & Co. A parlour-maid of Mrs. Brenane''s, Catherine by name, who had accompanied [8] "The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn," Houghton, Mifflin & Co. In a letter to his sister, written from Kumamoto, in Japan, years later, Hearn, like every other newspaper man in New Orleans who thought there "I dream of old, ugly things," Hearn writes years later from Japan, when [16] "The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn," Houghton, Mifflin & Co. In 1889 he again returned to America, and went for his famous visit to be most likely writing some day things of Lafcadio Hearn that was, which 3390 occasion, and said he would like to wear all the time. dinner-time, and Clemens would read them aloud to us in wild triumph. could very easily write like Clemens, and we took the play scene and Clemens came on with me to Boston, where we were going to make some men he ever knew." I was still Clemens''s guest at Hartford when Arnold To make an end of these records as to Clemens''s beliefs, so far as I knew Clemens found that he had sat down upon it, and handed it to him; the man New York, but he said he much preferred coming to Boston; of late years Norton presided, and when it came Clemens''s turn to read he known how Walter Scott had behaved till they knew it was like Clemens. Clemens would have liked it himself, for he had the heart for A little after this Clemens went abroad with his family, and lived 3391 that is not Harte''s fault, for he kept on writing those stories, in one but he wrote them from the life of Bret Harte, on the soil and in the air Cambridge and the Boston neighborhood, while Harte was still in San could say the sort of things that Harte said to him of that delicious This, Harte told him, was the line he liked best of all his lines, and on easily together, Lowell having limitations in directions where Harte Harte was the life of a time which was literary friends of a like age and stature, Harte laid his arms well time ventured to suggest, "Well, Harte, this is the old literary Whatever minds there may be about Harte''s fiction finally, there can Harte was no longer the alarming portent of the earlier time, but host and guest sat together for those parting moments, when Harte 3392 LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Cambridge Neighbors Of course it was only so hard worked a man who could take thought and meeting in Cambridge, he went to live in New York, a city where money part in honest politics, and to live for his day in things that most men life than of literature, and we seldom spoke of those old times. fifth of our life in Cambridge, that I made the acquaintance of a man, I do not know whether Mrs. Agassiz has put into her interesting life of him, a delightful story character than a man who lived at the same time in Cambridge, and who If he had said it was better to live in Cambridge with a cold than Holmes was one of the first Cambridge men I knew. in New York long before he came to live in Cambridge. for others the life that I have so long lived for myself. 3393 LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Studies of Lowell I knew the place--a matter of twenty-five years; but in all that time I he liked to speak of Cambridge in the custom of his younger days when here--what little boy?" At another time he pointed out a certain window These walks continued, I suppose, until Lowell went abroad for a winter suppose it was the "common man" of Lincoln''s dream that Lowell thought abroad for a twelvemonth, Lowell was seen in very few Cambridge houses, In this he was like the other great Cambridge men, But he had already come to the age of self-distrust when a man likes to I do not believe at any time Lowell was able to deal with money to my lodging, and the story of our old-time Cambridge walks began again Lowell talked very little, but he told of having been a 33930 church or family records is not known; and it is not likely that Mrs. Byrd, who was brought up with Rosalie Poe, could be mistaken on this account Poe saw very little if anything of Mrs. Stanard in the two Mackenzies and Mrs. Julia Mayo Cabell, wife of Poe''s schoolboy friend, evening of May 16, Mr. Cleland, with Mrs. Clemm, Poe and Virginia, left Another literary friend of Poe''s who visited the family in this time of According to Miss Poe, Mrs. Clemm was at this time dependent for her own husband or mother beside her, Mr. Poe reading a paper and Mrs. Clemm A lady who as a little girl knew Poe and his mother at this time said to We have seen that when Poe for the last time left Mrs. Whitman''s he went Some ten years after the death of Poe I received from Mrs. Clemm a 3394 LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--The White Mr. Longfellow "Is it possible?" cried the old friend; and then Longfellow intervened to out every day to dine with Longfellow in Cambridge, beginning with his took Longfellow''s fancy when he first came to be professor in Harvard, The study where the Dante Club met, and where I mostly saw Longfellow, to some effort of the kind by my remembrance of Longfellow''s old friend Greene was like an old Italian house-priest in manner, gentle, heard him speak, in all those evenings, except when Longfellow addressed not know Longfellow before that fatal time, and I shall not say that his to "Mr. Greatest Poet Longfellow," which he said was the very most and came to the Boston Museum with it, Longfellow could not apparently some of them; and I will ask you to send me a box," said Longfellow, and 3395 visited New England, but when I came to live near Boston, and to begin The thing came up in talk with another person, who had referred to my The doctor took him upon his word, however, and said he had been so long intellectually the most alive man I ever knew." "I am, I am," said the time in his literary life when he was a fact rather than a question, and thought of asking Doctor Holmes to do something again in the manner of He said something like, After all a good physician was the great matter; person who wished to talk when he could listen to Doctor Holmes was his character of universally interested man, he spoke freely; but he has said did not know you when he knew you quite well, and at such times I think said I sometimes wondered what could be the mind of a man towards life 3396 destinies of the great literary periodical of New England. for it was almost wholly the work of New England men and women in the New England life, shall have anything so like a national literature. New England mind for two hundred years, and that still characterizes it. which is free from the ethicism of the great New England group, but which great day was the blossom of a New England root; and the language which publishing house which so long embodied New England literature was New England Girlhood." She was the author of many poems, whose number England stock, and a Boston author by right of race, but she came up to fancy of the young readers of that day, needed the cold New England gentle, like all those great New England men, but he was cold, like many especially the work of a new man, and if I did anything that he liked, I 3397 LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Roundabout to Boston During the four years of my life in Venice the literary intention was the two visits he paid Venice in my time, had sent it to him, after smiling time for any literary endeavorer at home in the life-and-death that literary Boston which mainly represented American literature to me. The official chief of the consul at Venice was the United States Minister arrival Mr. Motley came to me with a handful of newspapers which, Before I left Venice, however, there came a turn in my literary luck, and later, when I saw him in New York, that he consented to publish my book. a man with the heart to feel the wrongs of men so little friended then as worthy to live in Boston." It was New-Year''s eve, and that night it came New York; and then I went to Boston to see Mr. Fields concerning details. 3398 write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives sense of the literary importance of the men whose like we shall not look satisfied until I thought, long too late, of Literary Friends and LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE--My First Visit to New England LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE--My First Visit to New England and criticisms for the Saturday Press of New York, a long-forgotten but world, and I should not like to think he knew how far short of my time I saw an old New England town, I do not know, but the most first and last thing he saw when he came and went on his long voyages, or asked me what way I had taken in coming to New England, and when I told New England had ceased to print my letters, he said, "Think of a man like 3399 34313 the future." A famous English short-story writer said, "The war has "But the American Civil War produced literature, did it not?" I asked. for myself--I must write of the people and things that I know best, but "But you do not believe," I said, "that American literature in general group of American writers like the New England group which included asked, "is the war likely to have on American literature?" "Do you think," I asked, "that writers should be specialists in writing? would leave a man time to write novels, and a novelist worth his salt "Thackeray would not write a _Book of Snobs_ to-day," he said. "Do you think, then," I asked, "that our writers are producing work as literature or of American life without thinking of the novels of William _Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year-Book of American Poetry_, calls "More people are writing poetry to-day than fifty years ago, and 3463 Clemens--he was hardly "Little Sam" any more--was at this time nine years Readers of Mark Twain''s books--especially the stories of Huck and Tom, Mark Twain said: "It was a mighty good thing, John, that stone acted the Young Clemens had been on the river nearly a year at this time, and, afternoon to hear Mark Twain read what he had written of their day''s happening on a trip of that kind, and Mark Twain''s old note-books are Four days later, July 6, 1868, Mark Twain sailed, via Aspinwall, for New they will look up those chapters of Mark Twain''s piloting days. at this early day, they gave little plays, and of course Mark Twain could Altogether, the reading of the letters gave Mark Twain a delightful day. The new book was a story which Mark Twain had begun one day at Quarry In notes dictated many years later, Mark Twain said: 34940 When Bret Harte was only eleven years old he wrote a poem called _Autumnal Bret Harte and his sister arrived at San Francisco in March, 1854, stayed period Bret Harte had any notion of describing California life in fiction Men were usually known, as Bret Harte relates, by the State or other place Central California, the scene of Bret Harte''s stories, is a great valley Bret Harte has touched upon this aspect of California life in the Even Bret Harte''s story of the adoption of a child by the city of San In Bret Harte''s stories woman is subordinated to man, and love is In his _Bohemian Days in San Francisco_ Bret Harte gives an account of the incidents, are Bret Harte''s stories to the reality of California life! The California chapter in Bret Harte''s life was This was typical California humor, and Bret Harte, in his stories and 36661 Roses_, _Poems of Nature and Love_, _Intimations of the Beautiful_, The wild-rose smelt like some rare wine-Comes blue-eyed Summer like a girl along. Thy dark roof dance, Faun-like, to the humming Making each tree like some sad spirit sigh; The wild-rose and sits singing all day long. Like Indian faces, fierce with forest paint. Like the moon she leans--O heart, With flowers, like moons or sylphide wings, The music stream like light through delicate hands Life woke and rose in gold and green and blue, Or on her lips lay like last kisses sweet A love that swept its moon, like some great moth, Like some great snow-white moth among the trees; With love''s lost face fair as a moon-white rose. like love, she comes again Like an old sweet face that has dried its tears;-Like the white, full heart of night, Like some gold cloud o''er dawn of day. 36720 The Authors Club--Its Ways and Its Work--Watch-Night In Virginia at the time of which I am writing, everybody, men, women, friend or enemy of every literary man of consequence in his time, the of the editorial page of the New York _World_ at the time, and with a At this time such men began rather insistently to ask why the authorities writing editorials and literary articles of various kinds for the New respecting his work or asked a question concerning it between the time It was about that time that my work as literary editor of the _Evening my days--that phrase felt good in the mind of a work-weary man of years my attention had been absorbed by newspaper work and by literary working night and day as an editorial writer on the staff of the New [Sidenote: Old-Time Newspaper Standards] that time were very worthy persons who wanted to do literary work, but 37300 This European visit came to an end in 1859, and William and Henry James James published before his visit to Europe in 1869 that shows any of the James, as he said of Balzac, that "his figures, as a general thing, are That is the pure note of the early James, like a pipe played carefully America were as captivated by the clear beauty of Mr James'' work as in Life_ (1889), the tale of an innocent American girl who comes over to That Mr James continued to write about Americans in Europe long after The signs of age appeared in Mr James'' work like white streaks in a A Collection of Novels and Tales by Henry James was published by Messrs The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Mr Henry James was The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Mr Henry James was 377 Mary Vance Humphrey of Junction City, Kansas, has written a series of short stories on the property rights of women in Kansas, a subject that Mrs. Aplington is now working on a book on "Art-Museums of America" and The author of that versatile little book of short stories, "The Lower Williams, of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Jarrell has written an For four years, Mrs. Stockton has lived at St. Margaret''s, depending 1859, living in Missouri some years but most of the time in Kansas City, A wife and a mother first, a Kansas woman second, and an author third is work, Mrs. January still finds time to write many short poems. one of the faculty of Kansas University, is a writer of short stories Hale, Kansas City, is author of verse, short stories, and a Anna Carlson, Lindsborg; Mrs. Mary Riley, Kansas City; and Isabel Worrel 37834 Miss Van Pelt''s picture of the old church also follows in all respects her Morristown, and remained until the following June, the guest of Mrs. Theodosia Ford, widow of the gallant Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., at her home now that when I was about a year old, General Lafayette was given a public be published on "The Great Hymns of the Church" will appear a paper on particular, we would mention, "A New Year Thought," published December, One of the best is "The Dirge for Old St. Stephen''s", written while they were demolishing the church built on Mr. Keasbey''s ground, where now a "mart and home" have taken its place as was Miss Stone, long a resident of Morristown, has published many poems in volume published years ago, privately, by Dr. Thomas Ward, of New York (a Morristown and said amidst great pain, that her last year, was, despite 37878 "I well remember," he said, "the first time I saw Doctor Holmes. The following poem was read by Doctor Holmes at the Unitarian Festival, Doctor Holmes says, "I never saw him do more than look as if he wanted year the friends and literary associates of Doctor Holmes, Mr. Houghton Doctor Holmes read the following beautiful poem: come to witness the paying of honors to Doctor Holmes, for my feeling "I have met Doctor Holmes many times since; and lately he said--however, young Holmes wrote his poem for Class Day. He served three years in the Like all poets, Doctor Holmes had a passionate love for flowers, and Speaking of the new building, Doctor Holmes said: Oliver Wendell Holmes was presented to the Medical School by Doctor Said one of the medical students in Doctor Holmes'' last class at Before closing this long chapter of "honors to Doctor Holmes," we cannot 38035 years--and with many such good old homely, farmy New England things to unto _you_: England, poor old dear, having (to speak of) but one. three days ago an excellent letter in the _Times_ from Stanford itself don''t do such things, however, every day, thank goodness, and am having set to work upon A Small Boy and Others, and for a long time to come he get back to dear little old England, I shall never in my life leave it has lately come into possession of an admirable friend of mine, Mrs. Charles Hunter, who tells me that she happily knows you and that you I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith''s Letters; days--I mean in this sympathetic little old house, which has somehow I think your so interesting letter of the other day most kind and Your good letter makes me feel that you will be interested to know that 38049 DEAR MOTHER,--You _shall_ see more happy days, and I _will_ come time in a nice little home of her own some day, as we often plan. I get very little time to write or think; for my working days To dear mother, with many kind wishes for a happy New Year and Father came to see me on his way home; little money; had had a Wrote on a new book--"Success" ["Work"]--till Mother fell ill, Wrote a little on poor old "Work" but being tired of novels, I wants a _girls'' story_, and I begin "Little Women." Marmee, Anna, do much new work, Louisa began using up her old stories, and found him I should like my father to see a little book he has written, Began to write a new book, "Little Men," that John''s death may experience came a story called "A Happy Birthday." This little tale 38132 Glimpses in Pioneer Life on Puget Sound.= (1903.) Same author. History of Puget Sound Country.= (1903.) Colonel William Farland History of Washington, The Rise and Progress of an American State.= The author is son of Rev. Cushing Eells, founder of Whitman College contains a good account of the Seattle fire of 1889. Seven Years on the Pacific Slope.= (1914.) Mrs. Hugh Fraser and represents ten years'' work by the author. Political Primer for New York City and State.= (1900.) Same author. says "It is the only story that tells accurately of the early life of books she wrote are Stories of Montana, Men Two Counties, besides experiences in the sage-brush country where the author lived the life written several books on Alaska under the nom de plume May Kellogg general editor of a Sunday edition and author of feature stories in this book published in Tacoma. Writers'' Club of Seattle, 20 Writers'' Club of Seattle, 20 38889 Thoreau''s house, not far from the recent hermit-home of his friend Below the Thoreau-Alcott house on the village street was a prior home of Motley, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and others. Hawthorne''s time stood nearest the house remain; the producers of the Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc._ Hemlocks--Haunts of Hawthorne--Channing--Thoreau--Emerson, etc._ lived next door Hawthorne came but twice into his house: the first time Boston home of Hawthorne; to it came Emerson, Longfellow, and Whittier A modest, old-fashioned house on Beacon Street has long been the home of Lloyd Garrison spent his last years, and in this neighborhood lived Mrs. Blake, poet of "Verses Along the Way." Here also are the early home of old Salem and the scenes of Hawthorne''s early life, work, and triumph. Hawthorne and his friend lingered in summer days, we look away to Of the simple home-life at the little red house, Hawthorne''s diaries and 39406 What is a Kentucky book, is the one great question this work has These writers hardly did more than point the way to Kentucky for Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose world-famous novel, _Uncle Tom''s Cabin_ _Kentucky Border Foes_, and _Old Honesty: a Tale of the Early Days of born and died at Paris, Kentucky, in 1823; and in the following year if the _Kentucky Acts_ which John Bradford published in the same year Kentucky''s earlier years," a most remarkable man from several points twenty years of age, he settled in Lexington, Kentucky, as a lawyer; years old Audubon returned to the United States to settle upon his and went, in 1829, to Louisville, Kentucky, where, three years later, young man, and made his home in the little town of Danville, Kentucky. Kentucky, when he was only two years old. edited for about two years, when he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, and 39407 works and three novels: _The Story of the Birds_ (New York, 1896); _The book, _Life and Love_ (New York, 1887), contained the best work he has his first long novel, _If I Were a Man_ (New York, 1899), "the story (New York, 1897), a Kentucky story, the first of his books that was An old man with shifty little blue eyes; a thin, keen face; long, _Twelve Kentucky Colonel Stories_ (New York, 1905), which were _Guthrie of the Times_ (New York, 1904), a Kentucky newspaper story of _The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come_ (New York, 1903), is his best long high-water mark, probably, for even the "six best sellers." Mrs. Macaulay''s second book, _Little Sister Snow_ (New York, 1909), was the in Kentucky schools, after which she went to New York with her mother. went to New York, her home at the present time. 405 these men and women friends were several times Richard''s age, but at writing in a copy of this book in later years, Richard said: "This is New York, and at this time Paris and London held no such place in his I had a great day at the game and going there and coming back. then looked at the letter and said "Good Heavens are you that Mr. Davis" and then rushed off and brought back the entire establishment During these first days in England Richard spent much of his time at write letters often, but am going head over ears into this new life and picture-papers with black letter type-I shall stop a day in Paris now Richard did not want to write the "story" and by way of a polite down the line half the men want to know who won the boat race-To-day 406 good deal, because every day he does the work of five or six men), he But the great times, of course, were when he came in person, and the lunch in its new magnificence, and Richard Harding Davis came into the I have known fraternally several war correspondents--Dick Davis, Fred I knew Richard Harding Davis for many years, and I was among the number During the twenty years that I knew him Richard Harding Davis was On that day when I read of Mr. Davis''s sudden death there came back to Davis was a loyal friend, a thoroughgoing American devoted to the best know that Davis''s story was far and away the most faithful and "Richard Harding Davis walked into the writing-room of the Palace Hotel "''I say, men,'' said Davis, ''do you know when the next train leaves?'' "''That looks like our only chance to get a story out,'' said Davis. 40898 Columbiad." He is a good looking, if somewhat self-centered young man, a favorite in the days of his New Haven residence with the young ladies of was first-hand news of the old Connecticut friends--that Trumbull, Fairly early in life Elizabeth became engaged to be married to the Rev. Joseph Howe, a Yale graduate, and for a while a tutor at the college, knowing the ways of her world as well as any one of her day and time. In the social life of the old city she was a leading and popular figure. IN the year 1822 there drifted into the friendly social life of the old impression of the social life of the old town one hundred years ago. Looking back through the years the life of his time seems to have had a reading room, as into a club, to look through the news of the day. 45165 New England, the meeting-house was the great geographical monument, to the meeting-house; for the tavern of those days was generally to school, but by the time I was ten years old I had learned to of New England country life and society at the time I speak of. occasionally worked in the field, in these hearty old federal times. This, let me observe, in those good old times, was a bird those days, during the severe season, was fully one man''s work. family, and was gathered to his fathers at a good old age, leaving After a time he came back, but said not a word. a long time the heart of the man was hard, and his ear deaf to her at the same time, days, months, nay years, have I struggled with the Peter Parley--a kind-hearted old man, who had seen much of the world, 45523 "When I was a boy," he said some years ago, "I worked on my father''s writing of which, as one of the old-time critics remarked "a new set of their long-termed friend, Major Pond, "makes his works so great." stories, and, at the author''s request, sent one of them to New York. story: "A young man once came to me and said that he would like to entirely to story-writing, he abandoned editorial work for good and all. A writer who went to see Judge Grant some years ago said: "He has There, in a room padded to keep out sound, the author of "Mr. Isaacs" has done most of his literary work for the last fifteen years. From the day of his decision to be a writer until the present time Mr. Allen has worked industriously and successfully. "The ''Old Man,''" said Richard Hovey a few years 45610 "When I was a boy," he said some years ago, "I worked on my father''s writing of which, as one of the old-time critics remarked "a new set of their long-termed friend, Major Pond, "makes his works so great." stories, and, at the author''s request, sent one of them to New York. the editor of _The Century_, said: "A young man once came to me A writer who went to see Judge Grant some years ago said: "He has There, in a room padded to keep out sound, the author of "Mr. Isaacs" has done most of his literary work for the last fifteen years. very year, 1884, he moved to New York, put away his text-books, and From the day of his decision to be a writer until the present time Mr. Allen has worked industriously and successfully. "The ''Old Man,''" said Richard Hovey a few years 51426 Emerson read a few unpublished notes on Thoreau, made years before, I ''Miss Elizabeth Thoreau, Concord, near Boston,'' and dated In 1857, when Mrs. Thoreau was seventy years old, and Miss Emerson eighty-four, the Concord, to which John Thoreau had removed for three years, in the Mr. Bulkeley, from whom Mr. Emerson and many of the other Concord citizens of Thoreau''s day were Emerson, visiting his friends in Concord, wrote thus of what he saw It originated in this way: A lady connected with Mr. Emerson''s family was visiting at Mrs. Thoreau''s while Henry was in Concord, and a close friend of the Thoreaus, who at one time lived February, 1843, Mr. Emerson, writing to Henry Thoreau from New York, years after Thoreau''s death, when writing to another friend, this In a letter to his sister Sophia, July 21, 1843, written from Mr. William Emerson''s house at Staten Island, Thoreau says:-- 6561 Some years ago, the New York "Globe," on announcing a new book by Mr. Burroughs, said, "It has been the lot of few writers of this country or and love of home and of father and mother, helped me to write it. life--simple food, sound sleep, the open air, daily work, kind thoughts, "Mr. Burroughs, why don''t you PAINT things?" asked a little boy of four, "I don''t like things painted, my little man; that is just why I came up writings about nature, books, men, and life in general, is here seen to when he was calling at "Woodchuck Lodge,"--the summer home where Mr. Burroughs has lived of late years, near the old place where he During the years of this early essay-writing, Mr. Burroughs was teaching It was a great pleasure to go through the old sap bush with Mr. Burroughs, for there he always lives over again the days in early spring 6702 It is from this incident of real life and personal experience that Mrs. Stowe conceived the thrilling episode of the fugitives'' escape from Tom In answer to this letter Mrs. Stowe writes from Hartford:-between the husband and wife, is shown by a line in one of Mrs. Stowe''s letters from Hartford in which she says: "I was telling Georgiana May, a most terrible and overwhelming sorrow came on Mrs. Stowe, in common with all the family, in the sudden death of her A few years afterwards Mrs. Stowe, writing of this story, said, "This A few days after the publication of the book, Mrs. Stowe, writing In due time Mrs. Stowe began to receive answers to the letters she had is contained in a letter written at this time by Mrs. Stowe to her Mrs. Stowe made one more reading tour the following year, and this time 726 I have liked Mr. Parker''s treatment of French-Canadian life, as far as psychologically in society, and makes one feel their interesting interested in the psychology of the story may take as little account of the sort of reader who will rise from this book humiliated and The author has put his best foot forward in the opening story, "The Man altogether like it in him; but in "The Man on Horseback" Mr. White is The bad people in the book are better than The psychological problem studied in the book with such artistic could, I should think keep the young men who read Mrs. Watana''s book should like--evident in some of the interesting books under notice The social Boston of the novel is more like; its Of the things that are not natural, you feel like saying its worst the book is worth while in a time when most novels are not 8088 day, much like the rest of the people, only that they looked wiser than In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used broken-hearted lover, the poor widow, the old man and woman who have "A man generally places some little dependence on his wife," said he, An old man, on a summer day, sits on a hill-top, or on the observatory of new little white dwelling; there an old farm-house; to see the barns and A shabby-looking man, quiet, with spectacles, at first wearing an old, morning an underwitted old man met me on a walk, and held a pretty long As I was walking home, an old man came down the mountain-path behind me This morning I walked a little way along the mountain road, and stood "There are three times in a man''s life when he is talked about,--when he 8089 the fields and woods looked very pleasant in the bright sunshine of the In my walk yesterday forenoon I passed an old house which seemed sloping hillside, like islands among the grass, with trees growing in round the site of the house was a pleasant, sunny, green space, with old So comes the night; and I look back upon a day spent in what the afternoon of the second day,--the first time that I ever came home in my day, that a large pool of water, under the shadow of some trees, had are very pleasant in the sunshine of the afternoons, the trees looking day we came back to our old house, which had been deserted all this time; At a little distance stands a black, large, old, wooden up a handful of autumnal maple-leaves the other day,--"Look, papa, here''s old man who was a little child when the wood was cut, coming back from 8222 At Brook Farm, Curtis studied Greek, German, music, and agriculture. The two years spent at Brook Farm formed an important episode in the life doubt whether he be not precisely the rarest man in the world." Mrs. Hawthorne wrote of Bradford, that "his beautiful character makes him beauty, in considerable degree, of our Brook Farm life." renewal of good old days, and I came away feeling that it must have added The love of music which George Curtis had developed at Brook Farm It was a part of the Brook Farm and Concord life which Curtis continued in I shall not leave all my good friends, and all the fine music My dear Friend,--If I should come to Brook Farm on Thursday evening will time in the Brook Farm pine-woods on a still Sunday; but to-day, as I secure some day about that time to come to Brook Farm, if only to say 8471 instance, a man is living in the State of Mississippi to-day, a cut-off Hard Times, La., the river is two miles west of the region it used to OF OLD MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHICH LA SALLE FLOATED DOWN IN HIS CANOES, TWO fair right to think the river''s roaring demon was come. (it is high water and dead summer time), and are floating down the river went and got it and said never mind, this warn''t going to be the last of and so the Child better look out, for there was a time a-coming, just as man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to his face in the river, and come and set down by me and got out his pipe, Some said, let''s all go ashore in a pile, if the bar''l comes again. I now come to a phase of the Mississippi River life of the flush times 8472 engine bells, and in due time the boat''s nose came to the land, a torch It made my heart ache to think I had only got half of the river plain that I had got to learn this troublesome river BOTH WAYS. What is called the ''upper river'' (the two hundred miles between St. Louis and Cairo, where the Ohio comes in) was low; and the Mississippi Coming up-stream, pilots did not mind low water or any kind of ''My boy, you''ve got to know the SHAPE of the river perfectly. change the shape of the river in different ways. river in the night the same as he''d know his own front hall?'' I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the It was plain that I had got to learn the shape of the river in all the river--shapes and all--and so I can run it at night?'' 8473 The next moment both men were flying up the pilot-house companion way, One trip a pretty girl of sixteen spent her time in our pilot-house with By this time the boat''s yawl was manned and away, to search for the pilot''s knowledge who carries the Mississippi River in his head. of what the pilot must know in order to keep a Mississippi steamer out I think a pilot''s memory is about the most wonderful thing in the world. later he took out a full license, and went to piloting day and night-The moment that the boat was under way in the river, bitter pill to have to accept association pilots at last, yet captains the association pilots and said-S----, pay him about a thousand dollars, and take an association pilot half the boats had none but association pilots, and the other half had 8474 In the old times, whenever two fast boats started out on a race, with a Those boats will never halt a moment between New Orleans and St. Louis, those wood-boats in tow and turn a swarm of men into each; by the time times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three made the run from St. Louis to St. Paul (800 miles) in 2 days and 20 hours. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and fortytwo years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets old bend had already begun to fill up, and the boat got to running away vanished time, is that of Brown, of the steamer ''Pennsylvania''--the man The moment I got back to the pilot-house, Brown said-- 8475 going to follow the river the rest of my days, and die at the wheel when One thing seemed plain: we must start down the river the next day, if thing to look new; the coal smoke turns it into an antiquity the moment THE RIVER ABREAST OF THE TOWN IS CROWDED WITH STEAMBOATS, stuff down the river at a time, at an expense so trivial that steamboat MY idea was, to tarry a while in every town between St. Louis and New had as many dollars as they could read alligator water a mile and a half alligator water it was said; I don''t know whether it was so or not, and old times, but it seemed to need some repairs here and there, and a new Uncle Mumford has been thirty years a mate on the river. about the only place in the Upper River that a new cub was allowed to 8476 The next time I saw my partner, I said, ''Now, come out, be honest, and man shot a boy twelve years old--happened on him in the woods, and young man rode up--steamboat laying there at the time--and the first low water the river bank is very high there (fifty feet), and in my day TIMES-DEMOCRAT''S relief-boat, see Appendix A]} The water had been to the boat, at the same time, for she can of course make more miles Devil''s Island, in the Upper River, they wanted the water to go one way, 4. Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by man on the river banks, south of Cairo, talks about it every day, during ''He had sold the other negro the third time on Arkansaw River for War. Two men whom I had served under, in my river days, took part in The usual river-gossip going on in the pilot-house. 8477 I have a lodger who shall tell you all you want to know. heard nothing that I said; took no notice of my good-byes, and plainly ''The thumb''s the only sure thing,'' said he; ''you can''t disguise that.'' It was the print of the thumb of the fortythird man of Company C whom I had experimented on--Private Franz Adler. river two days to prepare my way for me is going to follow me with it; goggles behind me in that dead man''s hand. themselves, after long years; for MY hands were tied, that night, you Again the man tried to do something with his hands. You put money into the hands of a man matter off as being a small thing; but when you come to look at the watch this man all the time, and keep him within bounds; it would not do Years ago, I talked with a couple of the Vicksburg non-combatants--a man 8478 time I saw this Mr. John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his All the passengers were on deck to look--even the gamblers--and Backus times saw the gamblers talking earnestly with Backus, and once I threw ''I CALL you!'' said Backus, heaving his golden shot-bag on the pile. speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and Delaware; on the wall by the door, copy of it done in thunder-andlightning crewels by one of the young ladies--work of art which would two are memorials of the long-ago bridal trip to New Orleans and the goods per year.''{footnote [New Orleans Times-Democrat, 26 Aug, 1882.]} A Then New Orleans piped up and said-factory in New Orleans: labels, bottles, oil, everything. bank, got a shot gun, took deliberate aim at General Mabry and fired. The instant Mabry shot, O''Connor turned and fired, the 8479 All day long you hear things ''placed'' as having happened had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to largely and vaporously of old-time experiences on the river; always & when she got out of the cars at a way place i said, marm have you lost year of Littles Living Age, i didn''t know what you would like & i told When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt small boy, at the time; and I saw those giddy young ladies come crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sadfaced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. One day the head said: ''The time is not distant when I shall be freed observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her: 8480 me--now captain of the great steamer ''City of Baton Rouge,'' the latest One of the pilots whom I had known when I was on the river had died a buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to I was told that one of my pilot friends fell dead at the wheel, from WE had some talk about Captain Isaiah Sellers, now many years dead. steamboat pilot, still surviving at the time I speak of, had ever turned largely and vaporously of old-time experiences on the river; always river, and sign them ''MARK TWAIN,'' and give them to the ''New Orleans of it, in the captain''s own hand, has been sent to me from New Orleans. was a very real honor to be in the thoughts of so great a man as Captain 8481 One Monday, near the time of our visit to St. Louis, the ''GlobeDemocrat'' came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby months before my time was up, for i saw it want no good, nohow--the day little room over the stable i sat a long time thinking over my past life a chance for 3 months--he talked to me like a father for a long time, & year of Littles Living Age, i didn''t know what you would like & i told after them every Sunday hour before school time, I also got 4 girls to This letter arrived a few days after it was written--and up went Mr. Williams''s stock again. When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt from the time she went in; and was always suffering, too; never got a small boy, at the time; and I saw those giddy young ladies come 8482 ''When Dean came,'' said Claggett, ''the people thought he was an escaped He granted these facts, but said that if I would hunt up Mr. Schoolcraft''s book, published near fifty years ago, and now doubtless ''I blow my breath,'' said the old man, ''and the stream stands still. crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sadfaced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. A few miles up this river, the depth of water on the banks was fully At thirty miles above the mouth of Black River the water extends from One day the head said: ''The time is not distant when I shall be freed they had received food from the old man: but very soon the bear came in observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her: 8582 miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of We changed horses every ten miles, all day long, and fairly flew over the days, and I''ll be along some time to-night, and if I can do ye any good places and sleep thirty or forty minutes at a time, on good roads, while team out of the stables--for in the eyes of the stage-driver of that day, Now that was stage-coaching on the great overland, ten or twelve years beat was pretty long, and his sleeping-time at the stations pretty short, thousand long miles in fifteen days and a half, by the watch! No matter what time of the day or night City we had heard drivers and conductors talk about only three things been about this man Slade, ever since the day before we reached The stage-drivers and conductors told us that sometimes Slade would leave 8583 world when the driver said that the Mormons often came there from Great and a little Rocky Mountain news, and we gave him some Plains information Two miles beyond South Pass City we saw for the first time that small piles of stones which the driver said marked the resting-place of of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world said further, that Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing and hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by the way of God, will no suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old. And it came to pass that they fought all that day, and At the end of our two days'' sojourn, we left Great Salt Lake City hearty I left Great Salt Lake a good deal confused as to what state of things 8584 great plain and was a sufficient number of miles away to look like an sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the could hold, three times a day, and chasing game over mountains three yellow pine timber land--a dense forest of trees a hundred feet high and log-house and excite the envy of the Brigade boys; but by the time we had out a long way from shore, so great a storm came up that we dared not try miles, and he walked back for exercise, and got the horse towed. Gold Hill, was the most successful silver mining locality in Nevada. rather, for we lay by a couple of days, in one place, to let the horses "Can''t tell, yet," said Mr. Ballou, who was an old gold miner, and had ledge that would yield two thousand dollars a ton--would that satisfy way--suppose some person were to tell you that two-thousand-dollar ledges 8585 promising subject, and gave him no rest day or night, for awhile. fourth morning, Arkansas got drunk and sat himself down to wait for an man that was a gentleman all the time and every way you took him, give me snow-storm continued another day our case would be the next thing to in the air, rocks as big as a house jumping ''bout a thousand feet high silver and gold in a ton of rock would find its way to the end of the He said he was paying me ten dollars a week, and thought it a good round and bullied the pack horse till I presently got him into a trot, and then A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake, for it is nearly pure swimming, for that venomous water would eat a man''s eyes out like fire, 8586 appearance about that time, with a cocked revolver in his hand, and said dollars, and said he meant to go into the fruit business in a modest way. Twenty-Five Dollars a week to come up to Virginia and be city editor of and all day long half of this little army swarmed the streets like bees day, and every man believed that his little wild cat claim was as good as man offered a stock present to a friend, for the offer was only good and Virginia, a man "located" a mining claim and began a shaft on it. For a long time after one of the great Virginia mines had been "Come right along, friends," said Col. Jack; "don''t mind us. election before it got a start; and everybody said he was the only man Reeder said it was a most cowardly act to shoot a man in such a way, 8587 They told her to wait a year and a day, and if at the end like a man; helped his exhausted and insensible blonde, her parents and boat and went to the blonde''s ship--so his captain made him work his Virginia was a busy city of streets and houses above ground. feet froze, and lost money, too, becuz old Robbins took a favorable turn In California he gets a living out of old mining claims that white men went away for a week and left me the post of chief editor. two or three years old at the time. word, I kept the due state of a man worth a hundred thousand dollars buggy--overboard went the man, and in less time than I can tell it the eyeing and pointing men stood about many a building, looking at long were found in this way by the same man in one day. 8588 natives; then the white town of Honolulu, said to contain between twelve I saw long-haired, saddle-colored Sandwich Island maidens sitting on the to-day--time, 4:30 P.M.--the party to consist of half a dozen gentlemen and so I said I had never seen lightning go like that horse. time there frequently, on sultry days "laying off." The spot is called It is said that in the old times thousands of human beings were Another friend of mine bought a pretty good horse from a native, a day or You give your horse a little grain once a day; it comes from San In old times here Saturday was a grand gala day indeed. the person or thing placed under tabu was for the time being sacred carried to the eating house, where he took a little food in his converse with them all the day long of his great joy in the turnip. 8589 houses; a steep wall of lava, a thousand feet high at the upper end and took away his life, and tried to picture in my mind the doomed man Some of the old natives believed Cook was Lono to the day of their death; generations passed from before the people like a cloud, and a shout went high and pointed at both ends, is a foot and a half or two feet deep, and wastes of lava long generations ago stricken dead and cold in the climax stood, was a small look-out house--say three miles away. gentlemen gave a good part of their time every day, during the calm, to "I tell you I don''t like this place at night," said Mike the agent. If you want to be facetious, young man, there are times and I then read what I had written and handed it to Mr. Lynch, whereupon Mr. Winters said: 8641 Yet Emerson was always good, and every man and woman who came to hear who like to play soldier in time of peace are not the best material to It is true that Thoreau imitated Emerson''s manner of speech a good he was in the right, and men like Emerson, Ripley, and James Freeman a great and good man has ever lived without suffering from it at one fretting because the clergyman did not cone in time, "Meanwhile, Mrs. D., there is providence." Of a good-humored young radical who wished to Louisa liked to look at other people dancing, and generally it made her bright little story-writer of those days and very much like her English considered the "Conduct of Life" to be Emerson''s best book, and there came to Concord to write poetry and live the life of an old bachelor, friends who knew that he liked Emerson, thought he had found too much 8777 Hawthorne, who said, in speaking of his own early life and the days at He amused his friends one day in later years by There is a brief record in 1879 of a visit to us in Manchester-by-theSea. Just before he left he said, "After I am gone to-day, I want you following entry in a diary of the time: "We have been waiting for Mr. Emerson to publish his new volume, containing his address upon Henry his time should be doing new things.'' ''Yes,'' said ----, ''I fear he said was "a great joy to the world, not alone to our little America." "But," he said one day many years later, "a country house, you Late in life he said to a friend who was speaking of the warm them, written on a Christmas day, speaking of an old friend: "How many said, "how I longed to speak these things which made life so sweet,