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At this his face lighted and he wittily and laughingly remarked: "When you told me you were going to

He spoke of "obvious things to do" yet "how often those obvious things were the very things we did not

It was so in the departments, too—the chiefs were very accommodating for instance, in the answering of

And her friends were taking good care of her, lest the devil should get her in his clutches again.

But I notice in these modern writers a tendency to bring some to the fore who were not thought great

at that time and really were not great, and a corresponding tendency to forget others who should be mentioned

—"these were the giants—and giants of real stature."

And then: "There were touches in there which would hardly pass current on the stage of this day."

they were fair as they looked—in that respect unlike some people we know.

He showed, for instance, that, say out of every thousand hands, a third, 333 of them, were practically

Some who were present that evening had seized upon W.'

Photographs of the bust were taken today—two of them.

was one of them—and John Burroughs, too—though John never so vehement, hot, in his interest, as we were

But the people after all were wise—soon settled upon the unquestionability of Lincoln.

All along the line of the big cities—New York, Philadelphia, Boston,—up in the great Northwest, Detroit

they were very cute!—and Lincoln was a conceded man.

the Copperheads even, of whom there was a great following along the borders,—sometimes in the big cities

What were the notes? "Oh! of our talk together—views.

W. inquired after its subject, and when knowing it was a Cleopatra, remarked: "If the truth were known

picture well—when I was a youngster it was brought to New York—a number of Delaroche's best pictures were

He said finally: "The antique ideals of beauty were different from ours."

I don't mean to say anything derogatory to modern men or women—only that the ideals were different."

Probably the same ubiquitous American who knocked at Carlyle's door, which was opened by Carlyle himself—asked

Cooper, Bryant,—these were the two supremely good fellows, as good as any of any land or time—any!

Cooper, Bryant, and the portrait painter, Chares Elliot, were the great American geniuses fifty years

it is a delicious going, resting—and the view over the waters—the big city there—the splashing ferryboats

They invited him to stop in to see them (they were a family he knew well).

he called on Cox, but it was all right: Johnson said the advertisements of pictures for autographs were

Gilchrist remarked "the wonderful grit" of American women.

"We have come from the river again—were right down to the water's edge—lintered there a long time, breathing

in the fresh air,—watching the boats, skies, city."

Several who were present have spoken to me of the effect produced.

evening—twilight—the trees across the way there—the clouded northern sky—the river I have just seen—the city

Bucke were here he would say, here is insanity—here is the beginning of insanity!"

Jenkins, of the American, returned my article on O'Connor as "too eulogistic."

himself with saying: "It is about what should have been anticipated: what the Critic wants—what the American

If I were to permit myself to make a comparison between these two very great men, I should not hesitate

In the west, running rapidly from southwest, were dark banks of clouds.

He had been offered benefits—"and they were generously offered, I know and realize fully"—and indeed—

And it is the kind we were after?"

One of the letters Ed brought me last night while you were here was from Julius, and though he sent me

"I am more interested than you know, Bill," he said, "when you get settled in the city, write me how

These were the pocketbooks, so much urged by me, which he had finally dedicated.He suddenly remarked:

Said his mails were "singularly destitute of news" nowadays.

Tell him we are still about as we were, weathering it out—not consciously retreating—getting off to the

I said there were errors in O'Connor's book which I had no doubt would not have escaped his eye had he

But if I were you I should not wait to hear from her—commence at once: then if she sends what you can

He could see the tall towers, "vast marble and granite pinnacles," which were new to his eyes.

had a chance to put forward his principles—his literary principles—yet he had principles and they were

the villain because he believed in villains, but because he believed in nature: 'here the villains were

I told him of the recent Labor Congress in Paris—that the French speakers were reported the most effective

him he said, "powerfully"—"this evening especially—and down by the river" but—"I wondered why so few were

out sailing—there has been a good free breeze, and yet the yachts were few.

the odors they threw out were sweeter than words can tell!"

Although not reading him the letter there were a couple of points I referred to W.

Denver is bound to be one of the most wonderful of our city-growths—wonderful: she will always be a great

necessity: America, traffic—traffic even before the railroad; none the less since—ordained that a city

was needed at just that precise point—a distributing center—a depot—and so this city grew, and so is

he needed one thing, why not another: items, insignificant details, which the man soon understood were

There were passages in it—asides—diversions—of exquisite beauty—then passages of great power.

this—was printed in the first number of Putnam's Magazine—the revised Putnam's—if I am not mistaken: they were

Not as advisable a place, in fact, as New York City itself—built mainly on rock, sand—in the sea air,

stirred by long accounts in morning papers of the Danmark, abandoned at sea, and come upon by the City

I told him of something somebody had heard from Gilchrist—that the speakers were "all duffers" and would

The great prayers were little doers.

"Yes, indeed—there are several sisters of them, they were over there together.

Encourage American labor, the cry.

—reference herein to his rather shattered faith that Americans in photography led the world.

But of the recent Samoan disaster, the papers were full.

They were both of them homely, as facial judgments go—not ugly, to be sure—not even like Lincoln, who

Papers much occupied with invasion of Lower California by American raiders who try to annex it.

once, "No indeed—and especially now, after the affair of his big book, in which he has set up as we were

were wholly pleasant."

Discussion of policy of American journalism: that it will sacrifice truth for interest.

He affects American.

He wrote a good deal for this paper among others"—lifting from his lap the copy of The American I had

It was not me alone—others know it as well as I do—others heard and were more indignant and confident

Asked me: "Will you leave the American with me?"

"The wife says, the last three or four days were the worst. Poor O'Connor!"

We had quite a good talk—they were here about 20 minutes, I should suppose.

went on: "Tell me more about it, then—tell me about the drive: what it amounted to, where led, who were

and now tell me, what did it suggest to you, what were certain of its prime features: tell me what most

And when I said, "No—it was a Jersey City boat," he said his interest in it was just the same, even if

And although he flung a log on it, and tried to start it up, his efforts were of no avail.

Twenty years or so ago they were both possessed with the spirit of evangelization: went off to Europe

It was a queer freak, but they were in earnest about it.

then hearty and we were left alone.Turned to me—I could see his head against the uncertain flickering

"I never regarded him—never regarded Gilder—as outright opposed—I don't think they ever were.

was suddenly started up a great racket out of doors: it was just six o'clock: the factory whistles were

as big as the boats of the American line?—the Ohio, the Pennsylvania?"

They started off—were gone several days—probably some hundreds of miles—when a storm—it was said, the

There had been a sort of house built on board—on deck—in which several hundred soldiers were housed.

"No—it was not necessary: papers, everything, were full of it.

I asked him if his days were long—if one day did not often seem two.

He was elected to the Assembly from one of the districts of the city.

It is interesting, too: all these fellows were of foreign birth.

He had himself clipped a bit from an English paper commenting on the heroism of American sailors at Samoa

And when I spoke of America as "greater than any or all, her own or other that ever were conceived,"

Yet neither heat nor smoke were obvious to him. He asked me: "Is it too warm?"

"They were not so big—not so elaborate—as ours, but produced, I should say, the same emotionalistic,

Some of these things were souvenirs, some not.

assurance," he addresses packages, often, and minutely describes contents and purposes, as if they were

Walt, if I were in your fix I would think seriously of going there for the next six months of a year

You know Forman and Doctor were long ago great friends there in England?

Was it a distinctly unhealthy city? "I should say so—at least, Washington itself is not.

Probably no city in the world can beat Washington in respect to this malarial curse.

ideas of what the city should be—who made everything, as they say vulgarly, bang up."

Did you see how they did us up in the American supplement to the Encyclopedia Brittanica?

Washington was an American out and out." Mention of Lincoln.

actual: Germanic, somewhat, and—you may think it strange, but it's certainly there—a certain dash of American

I referred to Howard (the correspondent) and his argument once, that it were as well to shake legs as

Davis departed—he looked long and pleasedly at the pure new stalks.Morris, whom I met today in the city

, had spoken quite anxiously of the Hartmann perpetration which it seems the boys in the city had been

Even if they were—if anything so generous could be said of anything so vulgar and low as Hartmann's whole

In Canada I was always astonished to hear people speak of us as Americans—as if they were not as really

American as we were."

there is no difference at all—we all acknowledge it—and yet we go on calling ourselves exclusively American

Why not all American—the Canadian, the Mexican, the Panamanian, the Nicaraguan—what-not!"

And this among Americans more markedly than any others—certainly with a great and grave advance over

I alluded to Clifford's question whether (as found in proof of my article) two t's were necessary in

W. said: "I should not wonder but that the question was valid—but if it were my case I should not crack

Burroughs, in the banquet letter, speaking of the American character, said: "We lack mass, inertia, and

He added—"The old army passes were written with enormous big pens, sometimes: have you never seen one

They were written immense—a letter an inch high often—intended to be read at night—by light of lamp,

Yes, they were often forged—but not forged as much as you would suppose: the fellows grew to be very

Vol is interesting—I shall want it returned, but am in no hurry"W W" His suggestion on proofsheets were

He was a rich old man—a New-York-City man and with a grand port, too—grey-bearded—fine head and body—I

To one who knows as I do what it all means, it is always painful to come back into the cities—the streets—the

I suppose in all our millions of population—our 80 millions—teeming, spreading—there are not a dozen

Emerson was cultured—generations of culture were in him—but he was more, too—he was a superb gift to

his own kind—after the real kind: a hail fellow to the Elizabethan men, yet one in himself purely American

They were his halcyon days—I saw him often.

Mazzini's was a great and lofty spirit, and offset in his philosophy as it were, to his friend, Carlyle

A storm was coming on—overhead and sailing across the sky were clouds—dark ponderous masses—everything

Chadwick to O'Connor—there were several letters on both sides, I think, and it was quite heated."

I interposed— "How O'Connor would play with Edward Emerson's 'or words to that effect' if he were here

, of which W. knew, and he added—"Herbert participates in that fault of all Englishmen, and some Americans

Some things were omitted, some unconscious changes made by the short hand reporter,—& it seemed to me

put in—"But the young—they will take you up: I read Leaves of Grass to a group yesterday—and they were

But I guess it would not do for me to go in at the city on high tide—in the full swim—no!

In reply to various questions from me, he said: "Yes—I suppose the pictures were a success—I inferred

Buckwalter and one for you—if not others—but he said he didn't know that he could allow me many—as they were

In spite of his weariness, had gone out a while yesterday—towards the City Hall, the outskirts, not to

Not out all today, though he said, "I do believe the trip to the city did me good instead of harm."

"I thought we were going to have a good time for a good while to come—now we must have a good time on