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    7 " " N ? * Oct. 15, i 8S^ The Publisher...

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    LOUISA M. ALCOTT.* Wherever the English ...

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    7 " " N ? * Oct . 15 , i 8 S ^ The Publishers' Cifi ^ tar I 329

    Louisa M. Alcott.* Wherever The English ...

    LOUISA M . ALCOTT . * the W name herever of the the authoress English languag of * Littl e e is Women spoken , '

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    ai gives »< l impressive us JLJLVA in this . h . & JL WAJLJIAMT portraiture fascinating VVS J-. JL -feXS * AV-1 volume . , * of JLV . A a . J . k ? . singularl \ a vivid \ JAlV V y , y

    n <) Mebraveand unselfish life . Bronson Alcott , was a , man of great force of character ,

    e Uarato 'litod * ' n Louis by , & Bdufth Co a ., May London D Alcott . Cheney . , JTer . P L 1 ortraits fet Let . ters Sampson and J ¦ ournals Low , ,

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    lovable tinctly p temperament hilosophic cast , wide of reading mind , ; and but dis un - -

    for fortunate those ly dependent for himself on , and him still , he more never perhaps ,

    conquered the intimate the art of friend making of ends Emerson meet . , and He was the founder __ of the Concord - _ School _____ of __ Philosop — hy ; _ .

    c hild ut h e was were of scarce ten in l de ever bt , free and from his wife financial ^ and ^ embarrassment . y

    Louisa The Alcott household when burden still fell onl suddenl a roma y nt on ic , y

    g of irl the of most fifteen memorabl , and she e used days to of say her that life was one a certain gloomy November afternoonwhen

    _ l ___ PK _ i ^ Pal « P * _ _¦ _ _ , _ ^ ¦ p > * counci she found ^ l as to herself and summoned means . to As a famil soon y as she realised ways the true position of — affairs

    she gallantly determined jtr to do her best to , retrieve the family fortunes ; and it is scarcely

    too much to assert that the whole of her subfinall sequent successful life was spent endeavour in that . Nevertheless arduous but y — _

    prose she ¦ hp * p . — ^ p' ¦ » " ^ did P- m * of " ^^ ^—» not "life ^ ^^ - ^~ - ^ P' , V , when a ™ b' ™ an ™ ™ ^— - ^™ d pi on ' ^^ thus ^^^^ it ^ P . ^ P- s p ^ p ^ confronted poetry Htp * ^_ rr ^ p— ¦^ P' ^ pp » w — , PJ for ppp _ » ^ p , 1 pppp _ with she p"Pp "" ppp ^^ pb ^_ r ^ tells _^ the ^ pp » ' ' ¦ ,

    us Mr . herself Emerson —* About ' s library that time I , found in browsing Goethe in ' s

    ^ Correspondence with a , Child , " and at once was V W ^ p /* pp fired « p— . sp ^ ppf ^ Bpr ^ P ^—V with v v ^ pb ^ pp pb ^ pj ^ a pp _ ' desire ^ — ^ ppv " ^ pr ^ . pp . ^ pr to ^ . P 1 ' ^^ be ¦ P * v « ' ^^^ w a ^ P " * ¦ Bettine . JPIPP' ^| pr PAT p ^ pv _ p _ p » p . » ^ ppp , Pfl making ^ . «>_ k PAp ^ pv' ^ ppppp ^ . pp'ppp ^^ p * f ^ pm

    letters my father to him ' s friend but never my Goethe sent t . hem So I sat wrote in a ;

    tall ¦ moon moon ^ n . ~ . L cherry , till till -tree the the . , ¦ owls owla at midni scar soarflrl ^ ppfa ed a ght ^ k . me me , si ng to to i ng bed bed ; : left leit t h e

    wild flowers , on the doorstep of my " Master , " and sang Mignon's song under his window in

    very did I bad tell German Goeb . he Not of till many lromance years . later and my my y

    the part he played in it . He was much , amused and begged _^ jtr ^_ for his __ letters _ _ , _ kindl y

    say The ing letters he fe were lt honoure burnt d l be so b wors ut E hi mers pped on . remained my Master while ong ago he , liveddoing

    more for me—as for many another— than , he knew __ , by the . __ simple ^_ beauty — _^ of his life _ — , _ the _

    truth a great and goo wisdom d man of , untempte his books d , t an he d examp unspoi le le of d

    b in y it the and world left wh richer ich he and mad nobler e better when whi he le went . ' There are many glimpses of

    Eraersonand other members _ > of _ the Transcendental — , __ School _ _ _ , _ in these — _ pages j _ -- ^ 2 , jbut we must

    content account of ourse her lves father by 's quot last interview ing this touching with the man whomas girl and woman alikeshe

    a Emerson lways _ thoug . pi ill , . ht a . Father of as her <_ ' Mas ^ pa ^ mm to ter _ / see . ' , ' him Mr ppp > ^ pjp ) . . Emerson held his hand goes looking up at the

    tall smi , le sorry of love old that man has , an been d , say father ing , ' s with sunsh that ine for so many years" You . are very wellkeep

    bac so , k keep and so . grasped " After , his father hand - left - again he called , as , if him . JL he knew it was for the last time , and his kind

    eyes The said charm , " Good of -b this ye , my book friend consists !'" in the way in which Miss Alcott is allowed to

    su reveal rroundi herself . , Th an ere d to n portray ot man , lette her rs in ngs y

    corre th ^ V spondence & lume , for should she desired be destroyed that most and of this her A I—i ¦ _ « «_ pppb ^ pk h 4 ph - , ^ " *

    wish was respected . Jtfut from fifteen to her ^ ¦ " ' ' I .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1889, page 1329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101889/page/11/