A Glimpse Of Emerson

Mr. Hedge, one of the professors oí' Harvard University, was reading a paper that rnorning, a paper on Kant, with whom in his youth he had come into contact, and Emerson, in the loving charge of his daughter, had walked down through the freshness of that summer day from his historie home to listen to the words of an old and valued friend. There was a look of serene and absolute peace on Emerson's gentle face, and the whole expression and attitude of the man, as he sat in his high-backed chair intently listening with the utmost respect to every word that was said, suggested to me the kindred ideas of meekness and night. Time has dealt very tenderly with the face anu form of the great thinker, and he stands, to-day, under the weight of fonrscoreyears, erect and active. I had severa) opportunities of learning how deeply the people for miles around tlie sweet old Faritan settlemeiit reveré and ad.-, mire the iïlustrious thinker, whó haa n9ver been too busy to enter into the common caras and joys of tboae abonl him, and who has sper.t ataonghisowB people a life that has f ully redeemed. in all direetions, even its own high promise. In the afternoou of that summer day at C&ncord, I had the honor of an interview with Emerson, In the seclusion of his own little study, and I shall always cherish with reverent gratitude the memory of his kindness to me that day. Whilst casting about, to discover how best to give you my general impression of thatvisit, iny eye feil upon a passage of Emerson's own, in which he describía a visit which, in 1833, he paid to Coleridge at Highgate and the words he applies to Coleridge express exact]y my recollection of himself : "1 was in Jus company for about an hour, but find it impossible to recall the largesfc part of his discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book, and, as I mighfe have foreseen, the visit was rather a spectacle than a convorsation, for he was old and preoecupied," The only sign of age, however, which Emerson displayed was a failure of memory ano au uhuost utter inability to recall ñames. Hi3 preoccupation vanished completely away when he found that 1 could teil him about the son of his old friend, the "little Julián, whomltaught to climb the apple-trees inthis garden." It Avas delightful to listen, as the old man eloquent related one incident after another of far-ofï Coneord days., when Hawthorne and Thoreau were his daily oompaniona and frientig by river and through wood. Irou founders are equipping both old and new parts of Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, with fíre escapes. Therc are eight balconies some ot' them 17 feet long, with weU sloped steps, not ladders, with hand rails leading l'rom orje to the other, so tbat there are no w at least two Hjodes of eïcape from every part of the building. By the exclusive use of gas, steam and safety matches, Ihe serainary has been made as fire prooi as is possible. Dr. John Hall, of New York (Jity, will giye the coramencement feddre38 this year, at Lasell Seminry. Auburndale, Mass. The school papuiation of Qatariu is 489,924 aad the expenditure for pstvuotion $2,822,052.