Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Six Stories and Some Verses
He was born in Milton, Massachusetts, Sep tember sth, 1869. When he was but a few weeks old, the family removed to Roxbury, a part of Boston, and this was his home through his life. He passed through the regular courses of the Roxbury Latin School and of Harvard College, and graduated with credit at Cambridge in 1892. He was a general favorite, and so soon as he left college various attractive proposals were made to him by older friends who hoped to secure his intelligent and cordial service, as a teacher, as a director of philanthropic work, as an editor, or in other ways. But he had already determined to devote his life to authorship or literature. With him, a careful resolution was a determination; it meant something unchange able. He immediately planned out a course of systematic study for his purpose, - a course such as the limitations of college life hardly permit; and to that course be devoted himself as stead ily as if he had been at the call of a college bell. At the same time, and with the same stead fastness, he assigned to himself duties in what is called charity, in the relief of the lonely, in help of the ignorant, and in citizenship. Best of all, he gave the light and joy to a happy home. As early as 1892 he began to send to editors such work as he thought worthy of print, in verse or in prose. In the autumn of 1894 he published a volume of poems, under the name Elsie and Other Poems. His articles were received more and more favorably, by critics and by the pub lic, and before he died it was clear that he had not mistaken his career. A few of his prose papers, and seven of his poems which were not in the volume published in 1894, make up the collection in the reader's hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
