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1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1
s shoot Where lay the snowy pillow. And here are a few on a more intimate subject-her son, going to the war— He stands before me tall and fair, The sunlight dancing on his hair, His stalwart arm to me he shows, His broad breast heaves with manly throes. Was it for this I gladdened so To see him up from boyhood grow? For this I read him many a tale Of brave old warriors clad in mail? This son, Henry, was wounded in the second battle of Bull Run, and, being discharged from the army, devoted himself to art abroad. Mrs. Bacon was married to Rev. Thomas L. Lathrop, a Unitarian minister, in 1862. She died April 7, 1900, shortly after the death of her second husband. Those who knew her say that she was a gentlewoman of the old school, in the best sense of the term. A small oil painting by her son Henry shows her with refined and gentle face, her dark hair crowned with a small cap, sitting with hands quietly folded, as if in a habitual attitude of reverie. [To be continued
1867 AD (search for this): chapter 1
many examples of verse from the pen of Mrs. Bacon, and a few examples of her prose. We may perhaps best say that the Repository itself is the monument of her labors. But through life her pen was busy. As a child, she made experiments in composition. When her husband died, Mrs. Bacon published an extended Memoir of him; also she contributed to The Rose of Sharon, an annual, in the fashion of those days, with miscellaneous contents and steel engravings. Her letters, written from abroad in 1867, are described as very entertaining. A little book, called Only a Keepsake, privately printed during her life, contains some of her poems. Here are a few lines about April—– Life! life! 't is singing in the rills And piping in the meadows, Tis bursting from the gray old trees That cast their ghostly shadows. The rose's stem is flushed with red, With green is streaked the willow, And green the little grasses shoot Where lay the snowy pillow. And here are a few on a more intimate subjec
Quincy (search for this): chapter 1
s in the public library might show, in their well-worn binding, the sign that they had been often and vigorously handled. The kind of writing in which Mr. Brooks excels is a mingling of historic fact with playful imagination. Take, for example, The Century Book of Famous Americans, of which the Somerville library owns four copies, all bearing the marks of use. What could be more fascinating to the young people, for whom primarily this book was written, than to be transported from Boston to Quincy and Plymouth, from New York to Philadelphia, then to Virginia and Kentucky, thence hurried to the early homes of Lincoln and of Grant, regaled all along the way with bits of story about the men who have made these places famous? Here is no dull guide-book or chart of dates and battles, but a lively conversation among an uncle and the five boys and girls he is piloting,—talk rendered vivid and readable by the running question and commentary of these young Americans, in the vital and unstudie
Whittier (search for this): chapter 1
nt to herself, as the Elephant passed by; and then, picking up her burden, she regained the highway and continued on her journey. Impudence with discretion does fairly well. Among the poems is a plaintive song of The Wild Rose. Almost the only poem of a sentimental cast celebrates an experience while the author was journeying homeward from California by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He had met a fair stranger on board ship, but now the parting must come. Surely there is a touch of Whittier in the following lines—– And that was all. The dream is o'er; No word from lip or pen; Her smiling eyes I'll see no more, Nor hear her voice again. Sometimes the past will come to me On mem'ry's grateful tide; I sail again the western sea, And she is by my side. The day has melted like a dream Beyond the billow's crest, And softly now the moonbeams stream Across the ocean's breast. The night wind sounds a soothing dirge Around the corded poles, And, stretching far, the phosphor surge In
Christmas (search for this): chapter 1
round appear Professor Longfellow of Harvard, as a summer visitor, and his friend Charles Sumner, both of whom advise the combatants, without interfering with them. Any boy should like this book. Again, read Historic Girls, or Historic Boys, if you would get a vivid series of true pictures of widely separated ages, with differing customs, but the same child-nature persisting through all. Or dip into Storied Holidays to find some scene of childhood, grave or gay, set in the festivities of Christmas, St. Valentine's Day, or Midsummer Eve. Throughout the works of Mr. Brooks there is earnest effort to make the historic parts correct as to fact, and also as to accessories of costume, architecture, and language. There is danger, intrinsic in such undertaking, that the learning shall appear artificial and pedantic. But the author recognizes this hazard, and, while not writing down to his young readers, provides against it. It would be difficult to find a better blending of dry events
Henry Bacon (search for this): chapter 1
re Edwin Munroe, who married Nancy Thorning, Eliza Ann Munroe, who married Rev. Henry Bacon, and Martha Fowle Munroe, who married Rev. Elbridge Gerry Brooks. The soerville from Lexington in childhood. She married a Universalist minister,—Rev. Henry Bacon,—who was the first editor of the Universalist and Ladies' Repository, in 1the publisher's desire to render the Repository of greater secular interest, Mrs. Bacon resigned her editorship, although her occasional contributions to the magazine continued. The Repository contains many examples of verse from the pen of Mrs. Bacon, and a few examples of her prose. We may perhaps best say that the Repositorysy. As a child, she made experiments in composition. When her husband died, Mrs. Bacon published an extended Memoir of him; also she contributed to The Rose of Sharl Run, and, being discharged from the army, devoted himself to art abroad. Mrs. Bacon was married to Rev. Thomas L. Lathrop, a Unitarian minister, in 1862. She di
Americans (search for this): chapter 1
show, in their well-worn binding, the sign that they had been often and vigorously handled. The kind of writing in which Mr. Brooks excels is a mingling of historic fact with playful imagination. Take, for example, The Century Book of Famous Americans, of which the Somerville library owns four copies, all bearing the marks of use. What could be more fascinating to the young people, for whom primarily this book was written, than to be transported from Boston to Quincy and Plymouth, from New Ylaces famous? Here is no dull guide-book or chart of dates and battles, but a lively conversation among an uncle and the five boys and girls he is piloting,—talk rendered vivid and readable by the running question and commentary of these young Americans, in the vital and unstudied language of the present day. No wonder the book is issued under the auspices of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. No wonder twenty thousand copies were sold in three months after publ
Grant (search for this): chapter 1
writing in which Mr. Brooks excels is a mingling of historic fact with playful imagination. Take, for example, The Century Book of Famous Americans, of which the Somerville library owns four copies, all bearing the marks of use. What could be more fascinating to the young people, for whom primarily this book was written, than to be transported from Boston to Quincy and Plymouth, from New York to Philadelphia, then to Virginia and Kentucky, thence hurried to the early homes of Lincoln and of Grant, regaled all along the way with bits of story about the men who have made these places famous? Here is no dull guide-book or chart of dates and battles, but a lively conversation among an uncle and the five boys and girls he is piloting,—talk rendered vivid and readable by the running question and commentary of these young Americans, in the vital and unstudied language of the present day. No wonder the book is issued under the auspices of the National Society of the Daughters of the America
English (search for this): chapter 1
, who lived in Somerville and Cambridge. He published much. Besides being editor of the Christian Souvenir, and contributing to the Christian Examiner, the list of his writings includes: a poem on The Seventy-first Anniversary of Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, August 7, 1835; a poem on The Will of God, printed about 1837; a volume of poems, Pebbles From Castalia, 1840; a Fourth-of-July Address, given in West Killingly, Conn., 1856. Mr. Shepard appears to have been a fluent writer of English. His tale, Lewis Benton, published in 1842, shows considerable facility of expression. It is a temperance story, picturing the deterioration of a well-meaning and able man through a failure to abstain entirely from the use of liquor. The little volume in which this tale appears is a quaint example of book-making two generations ago. The wood-cuts are especially noteworthy in their crude simplicity, and suggest comparison with the consummate art of our contemporary magazines. Not yet
Harper (search for this): chapter 1
to sea. His father's desire took him to Paris to study the French language, and the Civil War, when it came, drew him into its service; but the main currents of his being set toward the ocean, and it was only through special inducements that his employment, especially in his latter years, was ashore. He was constantly reading and writing, even on board ship. When in business in China, he was correspondent of the Boston Traveler. After his marriage, he wrote for the Youth's Companion and Harper's, not to speak in detail of his several lectures and translations. Mr. Frazar's first book was on Practical Boat Sailing. The value of this standard treatise is proved by its reappearance in French, German, and Spanish. So much for the practical side. Perseverance Island (1884) is a work of juvenile fiction, popular in England, as well as in America. This book out-Crusoes Crusoe. Its hero is cast upon one of the unknown islands of the Pacific, with no friendly well-stored wreck at h
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