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A LONGFELLOW EVENING.
Address by Mr Ames P. Wilder.
A most enjoyable evening was spent in connection with the Union Church Literary Society on Thursday.. It was a "Long fellow evening." nud in addition to an address on the famous poet's life, readings and musical selections taken from his works were given. Air Joughin presided, and readings were contributed by the Rev. C.
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of his generation."
Wilder, American Cousul-General, in his Endorsed by the Tandon Times (Sept. 28th, 1903, as Foremost among the 'Celliste usual bright and breezy etyls.
Mr Wilder waid that Longfellow died 27
Company in declared by the Daily Telegraph' to be Unquestionably the years ago and his poems do not lose theirongest group of distinguished concert artistes London has loaned to the Culonies hold.
He was not a profound thinker nor a pric-writer of the first rank; in years; while it is nonnicuously endorsed by the Press of India, where it has just closed an eight weeks' season with a promised ratura next year, sa beyond comparison he wrote for the people and perhaps the nest musical organization that bas ever yet visited the East
loved is more
quoted by them. To enjoy much of Tonnyson calle fo: a certain culture; Inngfellow is never Barns; the day labourer finds soute king in him. The Village Blacksmith is like to The Coltar's Saturday Night." His was the literary life though he Bved in a time
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of clashing His life went smoothly on.
Nou clamor sed Amor "-"not violence
or noise but love was his book plate.
poems requited courage to write; and "The Building of the Ship"-"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State" touched the great
heart of Lincolu. who said it would go
Yet there was staff in the man. Ilie slavery A Valuable Remedy for Influenza, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, and
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of so many poate, some of whom had they
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lives. Longfellow
is one to read for rest and inspiration; not
his to grapple with soulful probleme nor in justice en he he credited with the power. Ful mission of Teoryeon and Browning.
His four great poems are
***Hiawatha”—
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TM., G
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Lougfellow was four times in Europe, SATURDAY, 97th instear,
The Entrance Lista ars posted up on the firat spending three years there in prepara- tion for his work as a teacher of foreign | Notice Board in the Pavilion.
By Order, fanguages at Harvard. He then entered upon five languages and oventusly had ten which he either spoke or otherwise knew. Two of his three picse works have to do with the Continent and his earlier pooms also show the influence, especially of Germany- "Kingdom of the Air-introducing Jean Paul and Grethe to Amarica; bat he soon atruck his native note and his doable service was to join with Bryant, Irving, Hawthorne, and Poo in establishing a national literature and to command respect for it abread. The fing, Who reaße an American book" abated.
Longfellow came gently to old age; he died at 75. He is well called the "Children's Laureate." He writes of. "Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden lair an those blue eyed Banditii" that be put into the dun, geon in the round tower of his heart. In appearance he was well framed with abou- dant white air, deepranken eyes, with face at nos benign and commanding. School ohildren gave him a chair built of the chestrat tree beneath which the Village Blacksmith" ones laboured at the forge; his autograph we in great demand. Schools all over the country remembered his birth
day.
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