other man's poison. We cannot improve | it. The time had almost passed, when, to much on Captain Fred. Burnaby's "hum- our great delight, the poet drove in, acble opinion," that " every man must find companied by one of his daughters. I out for himself." On the whole, however, don't know whether it was Alice or laughthe perusal of this volume, with its varying Allegra. But she is a little girl no ing estimates of wine and tobacco, has longer. The house where Longfellow confirmed us in our opinion that as lives is historically interesting as having Professor Tyndall puts it in his letter been once the home of Washington. "the man is happiest who is so organized They seem to have taken a pride in preas to be able to dispense with the use of serving the old style; the antique balusboth." ters, the heavy brass knocker and brass fittings to the door, and the old trees on the public avenue, are all preserved with From The Leisure Hour. A VISIT TO LONGFELLOW. care. "When Whittier's note of introduction had been presented, he came out and gave us a warm and kindly greeting. He is an If only one in every twenty of the En-old man of about seventy, but sprightly, glishmen who "interviewed" Longfellow had written an account of their visits, a huge volume would be required for the record. Few of those records which have been published present much beyond the expression of the visitor's own feelings about the man and the poet. The latest that has come under our notice is in the recently published memoir of a member of the Society of Friends, Stanley Pumphrey, who devoted some years to religious and benevolent work in America. In his diary he gives an account of his visit to Longfellow, one special interest of which lies in the venerable poet's generous admiration of his fellow-countryman and brother bard, Whittier. Here is the extract from the diary: 66 Eighth Month, 15th, 1876. — Yesterday I had the great pleasure of my promised visit to Longfellow. My kind friend, Augustine Jones, went with me, and we reached the poet's house about half past ten. "He had gone into Boston, but was likely to return at noon. We spent the interval in a visit to the Agassiz Museum. It is a very fine collection, and in fishes, Agassiz's specialty, it is far more complete than the British Museum. Indeed, I think I was told they have four times as many specimens. We strolled back at noon, and found that Longfellow was still out, but were informed he might return any moment, so we sat down under the shade of some trees in his carriage drive, and made up our minds to wait till one. We beguiled the time with reading the New England Tragedy of John Endicott,' a book Augustine Jones had kindly procured for me, as he found I had not read ་ • Memories of Stanley Pumphrey. By Henry Stanley Newman. Partridge & Co. He looking very like the portraits we have I've tried hard "Then he opened the book and read a few stanzas from the latter that had spe. cially pleased him. I said, ““ Abraham Davenport" is one of my greatest favorites; it has the right ring.' 'Yes,' he said, the right ring. A man who is doing his duty should never be afraid to meet his Maker;' and he quoted laughingly, Bring in the candles.' "He spoke of the lines on Joseph Sturge as characterized by special strength. I was glad to be able to tell him that Sturge was my father's friend, and to say how that my truly the character was drawn, father had taken me to see him when I was a boy, in order to impress a love of goodness on my heart. "Then we spoke of Friends, for whom he has a warm regard, though not knowing many of them personally. They have left their mark on Pennsylvania very favorably-America owes them much. There is a saint-like beauty about the faces of their women which I have often loved to mark as I pass them in the streets. There was one who came over from England in early times, because she wanted to work for the Indians. I ought to remember her the name, for I wrote something about her.'* forward to doing with great interest I suggested that it might be Elizabeth translation of Dante. I thought he must Haddon. Yes, that was the one;' and have greatly enjoyed the labor, though he then we recalled her romantic history and would doubtless find some sentiments and marriage with John Esthaugh. The New many descriptions that would not be conEngland Tragedies' were next referred genial. In talking to Whittier I found he to, and he asked us if we thought he had greatly preferred the Purgatorio' before described Friends fairly. Augustine Jones either of the other sections. Perhaps,' thought he had, but reminded him that his Longfellow replied, the "Purgatorio account had provoked a good deal of ad- may be the greatest poem of the three; verse criticism from Puritan sympathizers, the closing cantos are very fine, but I eninstancing one individual in particular. joyed the "Paradiso." Take that interLongfellow had not heard of this before, view with Peter, the twenty-seventh canto.' and I suppose this critic was not one he I spoke of some of the thoughts he precared much about, for he said it reminded sents to us of heaven; of that favorite him of what the cow said to the fly which passage of mine in the third canto, of the had settled on her horn: 'I didn't know growing loveliness as we approach the you were there.' Lord, and of the everlasting fountain of "I said the early history of Friends knowledge and truth open to the redeemed was full of noble incidents. Whittier had in him. Longfellow reached the volume done justice to one of these in 'Barclay and read part of the canto to which he of Ury,' and I could not help regretting referred. It was a treat to hear him. he had not done the same by Penn. Long-reads well, and threw much animation fellow responded, speaking highly of Penn, into it as his bright eye kindled and sparand saying that he thought Macaulay had kled more than ever; Peter's withering done him great injustice. The worst of denunciation of the vices of his succesit is, when a mistake was proved against sors in the chair, which made him who him, Macaulay stuck to it; that is not had glowed like Jupiter blush like Mars; worthy of a great mind. all heaven reddened with shame as he spoke to Beatrice. To think of that be. ing written in the days of the full power of the papacy!' exclaimed Longfellow. "Whittier's name kept coming up while we talked. I said, ' His works have not nearly so many readers in England as Longfellow's.' He replied, 'I am aware of it; his works are not appreciated by you at all as they ought to be.' Then I thanked him, and said I was sure I might do it in the name of very many of my countrymen, for the great pleasure his writings had given us. I added that there was one of his works that I had not yet found time to read, but which I looked The Theologian's Tale, Tales of Wayside Inn. He "We had spent half an hour with him, and thought we ought not to trespass longer on his time. I said, 'May I ask one favor - that you will return me Whittier's note of introduction with your own autograph attached?' 'Oh, certainly,' he said, I will endorse it with great pleasure, "Seen and approved, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Cambridge, August 24th, 1876." He accompanied us to the door and took a very cordial leave." EMPEROR WILLIAM'S WARDROBE. -An interesting and extensive wardrobe is that of Emperor William. His uniforms comprise one of each of the regiments of the guards and of the body regiments, one each of Baden, Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtemburg, four Russian uniforms and one each of his Austrian regiments of the line and hussars. The civilian suits are elegant and chiefly dark, although a light pair of pantaloons is now and then tolerated; the regular head-covering is the high silk hat. The hunting-suits are rarely renewed, on the principle the older the better and more comfortable. Most of the interesting pieces have long been sent to different museums, ex cept the dress worn on the day of Nobiling's attempt. Perhaps the most remarkable piece is the emperor's brownish-grey havelock, which he wears in the spring and fall on his drives, and with which, although nearly twenty-five years old, he is not willing to part. All his uniforms and suits are made by a member of the same family, whose predecessors presented the young Prince William with his first uniform. Numerous as the contents of the ward. robe have been and still are, it has never held an article which nearly every citizen looks upon as an indispensable one-viz., a dressir g gown. Hatters' Gazette. For EIGHT DOLLARS, remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually forwarded for a year, free of postage. Remittances should be made by bank draft or check, or by post-office money-order, if possible. If neither of these can be procured, the money should be sent in a registered letter. All postmasters are obliged to register letters when requested to do so. Drafts, checks and money-orders should be made payable to the order of LITTELL & Co. Single Numbers of THE LIVING AGE, 18 cents. FOR those who note the fate of earthly things Athenæum. E. LEE HAMILTON. From The British Quarterly Review. THE TRUE CHARACTER OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS.* IT is common for large and varied classes of religionists in England to claim to be descendants of the Puritans. If certain defects are pointed out in these spiritual ancestors it is as common for such people to say that in these respects they do not follow their fathers. But spiritual descent means the inheritance of spiritual convictions. The infidel grandson of a Puritan is not a spiritual but only a natural descendant of his grandfather. At the present day there are Puritans and Puritans. There are thousands who, though evangelical in doctrine, do not adopt the principle of the separation of Church from State. Spiritual truth is always greater than ecclesiastical; and hence the common name of Puritan has been given to all those who in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries held the cardinal doctrines of the gospel. It is sometimes forgotten that in those times there were some who were Puritans of the Puritans and Protestants of Protestants. The Separatists formed a distinct regiment of the Puritan army. Their identity can be clearly traced in English ecclesiastical history; nor is it difficult to do so in reference to the Puritan exodus to the New World. The Puritans emigrated to North America, or Virginia, as it was called, during the seventeenth century; but the Pilgrim Fathers, distinct in * 1. BRADFORD. History of Plymouth Plantation. 3. HUNTER. Founders of New Plymouth. Ashton. person and principles, formed the advance guard. Yet many writers of eminence have altogether missed these historical distinctions; or if they have noticed them it has only been to fall into the common error that, however much the two parties differed in their origin, they immediately became one under the novel influences of New England life. And this they did in a large measure. But the unity was brought about by the gradual absorption of the State Church element into that of the Congregational. The free air favored the spirit of freedom, and the despotism of the Puritan element gave way before the broad and vigorous principles of the Separatists. The process of absorption was, of course, a long one; and during the first years of colonial life, the two rivers had not amalgamated their waters. Both the Puritan and the Pilgrim had been to the hard school of suffering; but as yet the Pilgrim was the only one who had thoroughly learned the meaning of civil and religious liberty. And the proof of this is to be found, among other things, in the significant fact that the Pilgrim Fathers did not persecute. In order to see this fact in all its bear ings, it will be necessary to glance at their tragic history. The birthplace of New England is to be found in old England at a little village named Scrooby, situated at the north of Nottinghamshire and on the extreme edge of Yorkshire. The few houses, the old spire of the parish church, the flat fields through which the river Idle winds its sluggish way, present even to this day a picture as homely and familiar as that on Edited by Rev. R. which our forefathers looked two hundred and seventy years ago. In the Manor House, once a sporting palace of the archbishops of York, but then employed as a posting-house, the germs of the New England republic are to be discovered. In 1589 William Brewster held the office of postmaster, and his house became the rendezvous of all the Puritanism of the immediate neighborhood. Brewster was 6. WILLIAMS, ROGER. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution. Underhill. With Biographical Introduction by E. B. 7. ELTON. Life of Roger Williams. 8. SEWELL. History of the Quakers. Massachusetts. The Congregational Churches in 12. WADDINGTON, Dr. Congregational History. 13. MASSON. Life of Milton. 14. BANCROFT. History of the United States. 15. DE TOCQUEVILLE. Democracy in America. 16. GARDINER, S. R. Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage. 1617-1623. *The stream that passes through Scrooby itself is the Byton. |