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Title: The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
Author: Various
Editor: B. O. Flower
Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23802]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE ARENA.
No. XXIII.
OCTOBER, 1891.
[Illustration: James Russell Lowell (signed J. R. Lowell)]
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL. D.
With loving breath of all the winds, his name Is blown about the world; but to his friends A sweeter secret hides behind his fame, And love steals shyly through the loud acclaim To murmur a God bless you! and there ends.
When Longfellow had reached his sixtieth year, James Russell Lowell, then in his splendid prime, sent him those lines as a birthday greeting. Lowell, since then, received in his turn many similar tributes of affection, but none that seemed to speak so promptly from the heart as those touching words of love to an old friend. To himself they might well have been applied in all truthfulness and sincerity. Of the famous group of New England singers, that gave strength and reality to American letters, but three names survived unti