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Our conversation turned to modern education, upon which his views were frequently radical.

His friends and admirers, however, were not so philosophical as he; they did not hesitate to condemn

sufficiently intimate to hail cheerily, when their doings were, or were not, to our liking, and who

On the occasion of his visits, there were usually other guests in the house, mostly young folks, who

In his later publication, I find many passages that were displayed to me in embryo.

He answered with as much sincerity as geniality, that it would indeed be strange if there were no music

at the heart of his poems, for more of these were actually inspired by music than he himself could remember

Several ladies called, and a number of "outsiders," and all were received with due empressment empressement

There were over three hundred visitors in the course of the evening, some from England.

gave some times of his printer life, as a young man (1838 to 1850), and his working in different cities

In the course of the evening various little speeches were made, and Mr.

Then, like all good Americans, he became convinced that his mission was something else than a perpetual

The lad was to be the first of the American authors who was at once thoroughly national and yet not provincial

These were the years when he laid in his vast store of impressions and pictures, his true graduation

He was "rewarded" with a clerkship in a Government office, and while thousands were receiving indemnities

His fellow authors, among whom were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edmund Clarence Stedman

The clock struck midnight while they were talking. It was Tuesday night, after Col.

There was a pause, as if he were trying to make a connection between death and what he was about to say

Tears were in the eyes of some as they watched the poet utter his feeble good-by good-bye .

The others at table were Mrs. George W.

The heads at the windows were drawn in and the group of little ones parted and went their way.

A table in front of him was covered with books and papers, papers and books were strewn at his feet,

Philadelphia Press About six weeks ago the children on Mickle street, below Fifth street, in Camden, were

morning after breakfast his housekeeper asks him with as much regularity and solemnity as though she were

writing pad was on his knee and numerous photographs of Elias Hicks, of whom the poet was writing, were

"Thoroughly American to the last," the reported exclaimed.

P HILADELPHIA , September 15 —The last sunbeams were shining through the rustling leaves of the elm trees

side street in Camden this evening, and the last honey bee hovered over the fragrant blossoms that were

Several large sheets of paper were folded up within.

On them were scrawled the names of a number of prominent men in the various walks of life, but not a

"Some of them I do not know; some are very dear friends; a great many other friends were not sent to.

On the floor were strewn, with the genuine abandon of carelessness books, magazines, newspaper clippings

Thrown here and there loosely were the skins of animals; one on the chair which is claimed as the "poet's

The coal-black eyes of the housekeeper were cast upon him. He seemed to wilt.

"We Americans devote an official day to it every year; yet I sometimes fear the real article is almost

said the "Good Grey Poet" to a North American reporter.

"If it were not for the new President I don't know what the papers would do for something to talk about

Walt was a newspaper man when most of the newspaper men of the present day were boys, and he preserves

WHAT HE HAS TO SAY—ESTHETIC TAFFY FOR THE AMERICANS—THEY LOVE THE TRUE AND THE BEAUTIFUL—MR.

AMERICANS SHOULD NOT COPY. "Would the standard be the same for all countries?" "By no means.

The Americans should not copy the decorations of England.

American decoration should be entirely different from that of England r any other country.

We struck a paragraph, yesterday, about Walt Whitman, and thought to wrench a joke out of it, but were

Near by were a pile of corrected proof-sheets bearing the heading "Leaves of Grass."

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

making the book is to give A Recognition of All Elements compacted in one— e pluribus unum , as it were

I have also accepted as a theme the modern business life, the streets of cities, trade, expresses, the

"Of the American poets," he said, "I would place Emerson first, then Bryant, Longfellow and Whittier.

Pratt, the American Consul at Belfast."

We were always on the best of terms, and I well remember his kindly but earnest invitation to come to

Boyle O'Reilly and Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sienas Sierras , were present."

I can't keep up with the sinuosities of American politics. Nor do I want to.

He is versatile, brilliant, statesmanlike in all his views, and I am only sorry that the American people

A cable dispatch printed yesterday in an evening paper announced that Walt Whitman, the American poet

"If we were not in the midst of the holiday trade," he said, "I would jump on the next train for Philadelphia

An autograph letter of Walt's was sold in this city last Spring for $80 to my knowledge."

reporter regarding the paragraph which appeared in this morning's papers, stating that subscriptions were

In that city they have had a Philosophical society for some years, and now Griggs & Co, the principal

The papers in the volume were chiefly written in Canada since Mr Smith has lived there, and several of

They were collected into a book in Canada, but subsequently taken by the publishing house of Macmillan

The American features are not all that the æsthetic fancy craves, but they are not so hopelessly lost

If it were possible to see the genius of a great people throwing itself now into this form, now into

The editors of the North American Review had sent him three dispatches, urgently requesting an article

deliver my essay or lecture or whatever you may be pleased to call it on Abraham Lincoln in New-York City

He it was who wrote the first article in any American magazine about me.

Arnold and Whitman: The Author of "Light of Asia" Visits the American Poet ARNOLD AND WHITMAN THE AUTHOR

OF "LIGHT OF ASIA" VISITS THE AMERICAN POET.

My second wife, you know, was an American lady, and that gives me a claim on your people.

I told him my children bore American names and that it pleased me to think and speak of Americans as

There were tears in the eyes of the English poet.

The car jogs up Market street, the principal thoroughfare of the city.

The bright energy which marks the growing Western city is absent.

Camden is monotonous and for a city of its age and opportunities unlovely.

The walls were adorned with a number of portraits, engravings, and photographs.

HIS VIEWS OF AMERICAN BARDS. "The old poets are dropping off," said Mr.

poets, however conservative they may be, tend to the same democratic humanitarianism as our great Americans

Walt Whitman: His Ideas About the Future of American Literature WALT WHITMAN.

His Ideas About the Future of Amer- ican American Literature.

"What will be the character of the American literature when it does form?"

They are appearing in the Eastern cities and in the West.

They are very American. Emerson is our first man. He is in every way what he should be.

to his old habit, the poet spent an hour or more on the ferry, swinging pendulum-like between this city

The publishers were capital fellows.

I like the city itself exceedingly, and I think it will in a short time become a cosmopolitan city such

Don't ask me to class Philadelphia with Boston, New York, or the wide-awake Western cities.

I cannot class it with other cities, and you must not compel me to talk about it.

While answering freely, Walt wound up this part of the conversation by saying that those were problems

As for American poets, Mr.

The others present were Mrs.

On the floor at his feet was a "paper file," containing a small sheet on which some memoranda were written

, and on a larger table, in the centre of the room, were several letters bearing English postage stamps

Blaine's South American policy?" "I do, decidedly.

The United States, as the biggest and eldest brother, may well come forward and say to the South American

I think no American can object to it. I believe Blaine is going to be elected.

think, too, there is wisdom in what Conkling says of the late contest at the polls, that the people were

Two handsome cats were purring contentedly about the ankles of the benign old man, and did not seem to

cablegram containing a reference to his needy condition and the circular alleged to be circulating England were

"And those conditions were?"

"Better than twenty years ago, when you were in Boston getting some book printed?"

I think American boys are very companionable, the friendliest in the world.

As I have noted in my poem, I think American youths, more than any other, are possessed of that high

not quite suited for the expression of American democracy and American manhood.

The man, the American man, the laborer, boatman, and mechanic.

The great painters were as willing to paint a blacksmith as a lord.

How monotonous it would become—how tired the ears would get of it—if it were regular.

(Query—Why only American?) Bryant he likes.

shocked amazement, the dear people all the while forgetful of the fact that in reading Whitman they were

They were especially interested in the old Whitman burial hill and cemetery, containing the poet's ancestors

The house, barn, and other buildings were all gone and the ground ploughed over.

He is in love with Denver City, and speaks admiringly of Missouri and Indiana.

Copyright, 1890, by American Press Association.]

"Give my regards to all the boys in New York city, and don't forget it."

Engraving of Whitman, apparently based on photograph #60, taken by Napoleon Sarony in 1878 in New York City

at the dingy windows; but more than all it needs condemnation and destruction at the hands of the city

depreciation; a simple proud humility in the acknowledgment of pleasure that his printed thoughts were

The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.

know that in England and abroad you are regarded as one of the greatest, if not most true of all American

This was the last public appearance of Walt Whitman, and there were thirty-three persons present, the

Donaldson— If I understand what you have done, it is to make a plea for America and the Americans—it

some years in Washington, and have visited, and partially lived, in most of the Western and Eastern cities

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

GRANT, A TYPICAL AMERICAN.

"Washington and all those noble early Virginians were, strictly speaking, English gentlemen of the royal

era of Hampden, Pym and Milton, and such it was best that they were for their day and purposes.

, irrefragable proof of radical Democratic institutions—that it is possible for any good average American

The publishers were capital fellows.

I like the city itself exceedingly, and I think it will in a short time become a cosmopolitan city such

I cannot class it with other cities, and you must not compel me to talk about it.

No copies w orth me ntioning were sold of any issue.

"You have eliminated, then, none of the lines which were deemed objectionable?"

There were offerings from E. C.

They were hale fellows, chewed tobacco or smoked if they chose and each had a nickname.

Johnston how much the receipts of the lecture were.

When told that the profits were $190, he said: "Put me down for enough to make it $200."

These were the only attacks of autograph hunters during the evening.

—Whenever I reach this city I always cross the ferry to Camden, for a visit to Philadelphia without seeing

The fourth and fifth editions of the war period were likewise failures.

The Osgoods owed Whitman $500 when his poems were suppressed.

and other great imaginative results will be produced in the United States as becoming to them, as were

Like a font of type, poetry must be set up over again consistent with American, modern and democratic

Heaped round the chair, in some places knee-deep, were masses of old letters, papers, manuscript, the

On another table, just behind the chair, were heaps of dust-sprinkled papers and a package of letters

The three windows were all on the same side, each to each. The blinds were closed.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

Sir Edwin Arnold's visit to the aged bard flooded the American's soul with joy.

Warmth and sunshine were outside, shadow and coolness within, with perfect Sabbath quiet.

too much neglected; that between an attention to material and extraneous interests, on the other, we were

driving the physical to the wall; as if life, this wonderful, mysterious life, were not primarily a

to the great elements of life, of seeing the world as a new world, and recreating it in words that were

He spoke of the pleasure of finding in Bryant allusions to those common objects of American landscapes

The Englishman Surprises the American Poet at His Home.

The floor was littered with books and papers almost blocking the approach to the great American singer

The American poet had lots to tell, and so had Sir Edwin, and the two indulged in a literary feast.

The two sat alongside of each other and began talking about American and English poetry.

Then the pair had a literary treat by talking of Emerson, Longfellow and other American poets.

Two long tables were arranged the whole length of the big room on the second floor, and covers were spread

Samuel, of this city, and Benjamin F.

Boyle and other Philadelphians who were present. Francis B.

Then somebody proposed "Three cheers for Walt Whitman," which were given with a will.

He is a genuine continental American."

"One day in the summer we were riding in the horsecars about Washington, and General Garfield came in

Two Visitors TWO VISITORS, Each Widely Known, Stopping Briefly in the City. Col.

Forney of Philadelphia and Walt Whitman, the poet, arrived in the city yesterday and with their party

The train arrived three hours late, but as the party only intended to stop one day in the city, they

"What a superb city St. Louis is!" exclaimed he.

It's a great city." "Quite a town, isn't it?" "Yes, indeed.

The poet's face was just as ruddy as the bright face above him, and his eyes were as bright and his smile

he would accept such a position, but still I would like only too well to put a feather in his cap were

Whitman's book on the ground that it was obscene literature, unless a long list of passages and poems were