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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS-Editor's Easy Chair |
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Contributed by William Dean Howells
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It would be an authority far bolder than this which would dare affirm
that the Recollections of Seventy Years, by Mr. F. B. Sanborn, of
Concord, were autobiography of a new sort; they are of the good old,
personal sort, such as autobiographies have been from the beginning,
now more intimate, now less, but always openly, and from their nature,
confidential. We could not insistently say that they were even of a
new shape, though we do not recall, offhand, another autobiography
which divides itself quite so distinctly. When the reader comes to the
two volumes of them he will see much better than we have said just
what we mean, and will understand how the interesting man who tells
himself in them had not only the right to speak of his past to a very
actual and busy generation, but also the right to choose the manner of
his speaking, and to devote one volume oftenest to his part in the
national events of his time, and the other oftenest to his part in the
ideals and motives of his place, which were universal in Emerson, and
local in Emerson's neighbors. Not that for the Fake of antithesis
itself may one speak of Hawthorne and Thoreau as local; but it is a
Concordian rather than an American sense of them which Mr. Sanborn
imparts, and they seem not to transcend Concord as Emerson does. With
Emerson to represent him in one sort, as John Brown represents him in
another, the author need not feel dwarfed if the reader leaves his
variously attractive book with the feeling that his life culminated in
those two men. His relations with them and the great ideals and events
which they typify form that side of his autobiography which may be
distinguished as the impersonal side, almost as sharply as he has
himself distinguished it in setting it apart in a separate volume, and
treating it as if it were a separate story, In this he has perhaps
obeyed, unconsciously, an instinct of human nature, in which there are
at least always two selves seeking a respective expression. Usually
they do not find it, if ever they find it, and the great objection to
Mr. Sanborn's plan is that it is apparently not the plan of life. Our
natures may very well be duplex, but when it comes to our experiences
it is only a one and indivisible personality that things happen to and
from. . . .
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