Ralph Waldo Emerson Photogravure after a painting by J. Jaeger HE "Sage of Concord," "our American Plato," as he has T been called, was born in Boston in 1893. Educated at Harvard, after a short career as a Unitarian minister, he devoted himself to literatúre, writing essays and poems, and delivering lectures from the popular platform in this country and before learned societies in Great Britain. Of his writings it may be said that his essays have the beauty of expression usually found only in poetry, and that of the most finished sort, and his poems have all the intellectual vigor of ileas that is looked for in prose compositions alone, and these by the masters of philosophy. Emer. son died April 27, 1882. |