The Dial, Vol. 27 - Chicago, Jan 1, 1912 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Dial, Vol. 27: Chicago, Jan 1, 1912

The First Citizen Of The Republic; Some Eighteenth Century Travellers In America. Warren Barton Blake; Casual Comment; A notable triumvirate of distinguished Americans. - The outlook for poetry in America. - What they are reading in Athens. - Observations of an unreformed speller. - Culture for a whole commonwealth. - Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. - A French tribute to Dickens. - The rating of first editions of "R.L.S."; The Legacy Of William James. Joseph Jastrow"; Wordsworth Anatomized. Alphonso Gerald Newcomer; The Author of "Cranford." W. E. Simonds; "The Glory That Was Greece." Grant Showerman; The Life-Story of a Cotton-Mill Operative. Annie Russell Marble; Recent Fiction. William Morton Payne; Mrs. Ward's The Case of Richard Meynell. - Lucas Malet's Adrian Savage. - Castle's The Composer. - Farnol's The Money Moon. - Osbourne's A Person of Some Importance. - Parrish's My Lady of Doubt. - Harben's Jane Dawson; Briefs On New Books; Scanning the horizon in the Farthest East. - Lifestory of a Canadian priest. - Chapters in the New Astronomy. - An economical tour of Spain. - A counterpart to Uncle Remus. - The world's Universities. - The treasures and pleasures of Florence. - Psychology and business efficiency. - "The Man Who Likes Mexico"; Briefer Mention; Notes; Topics In January Periodicals; List of New Books

For many years it was the custom of John Bigelow to keep "open house" for his friends on Thanksgiving Day, in the fine old Gramercy Park mansion which had long been his home. It was a pleasant way, both for him and his guests, to celebrate his birthday, which fell on the twenty-fifth of November. What proved to be the last of these gatherings was held a month ago, ushering in the ninety-fifth year of the life of the venerable host. He died on the nineteenth of December, after an illness of three days, unexpectedly - at least in the sense that a man who has carried his intellectual and physical vigor far into the nineties may well keep on surprising the world indefinitely. The tale of his accumulated years, and of the honors that had been their fruit, had made him "the first citizen of New York," as he was often styled, possibly even the most distinguished citizen of the nation which had long been proud of his fame. He had lived in the lifetime of George III., Napoleon, and every President except Washington; as a boy he had witnessed Lafayette's triumphal progress through the country he had helped to call into being, and had grown up among men to whom Bunker Hill was a personal memory; as a man, he had witnessed the transformation of Europe into a continent of constitutional governments, and of his own country into the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth; he had seen such younger men as Hale and Higginson and Mitchell die of old age, and still he lived on in a world which by means of his vital personality was enabled to link the present with the far distant past. As was finely said by the newspaper which he helped to build up more than half a century ago, his disappearance now seems "like the fading from a familiar landscape of a snow-crowned mountain peak."

John Bigelow was born November 25, 1817, at Malden, New York, and was graduated from Union College in 1835. Three years later he was admitted to the bar, and combined a growing practice with a multifarious literary activity.

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• Authors: Marianne Moore
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Languages: English
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• Released: 31.07.2015
• No. of pages: 494
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• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama