Henry Wadsworth  LONGFELLOW

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, said to have been America's greatest 'poet of the people, was born at Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of fourteen, and graduated in 1825. During his college days he distinguished himself in modern languages, and wrote several short poems, one of the best known of which was the 'Hymn of the Moravian Nuns.' After his graduation he entered the law office of his father, but the following year was offered the professorship of modern languages at Bowdoin, with the privilege of three years study in Europe to perfect himself in French, Spanish, Italian and German. After the three years were passed he returned to the United States and entered upon his professorship in 1829. His first volume was a small essay on the 'Moral and Devotional Poetry of Spain' in 1833. In 1835 he published some prose sketches of travel under the title of 'Outre Mer, a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea.' In 1835 he was elected to the chair of modern

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, died at his residence in Cambridge, on Friday afternoon, at the age of 75 years and 25 days. His illness was short ant not very painful, and his life ended as it had passed, quietly and serenely. Within a half an hour the solemn tolling of the alarm bells let Cambridge know that her greatest and best citizen was no more. The seventy-five awe-inspiring peals reminded the startled city of the time of rejoicing but so short a time ago, only a few weeks, when Cambridge, America, the whole world joined in singing the praises of our greatest poet, and thanked heaven that his life had been spared the even three-quarters of a century. Now he is gone.

Among none did the news of his death spread faster than among the school children of Cambridge. He was their friend and they loved him. His seventy-fifth birthday was celebrated not only by the children of the Cambridge schools, but by those of almost every city in the land. Longfellow loved the boys and