RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2515, 29 April 1882, Page 3

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Our telegrams this morning announce the death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, L.L.D. From “Men of the Time” we learn that he was born at Boston, May 25fch, 1803. He graduated at Harvard College in 1821, and was ordained minister of the Second Unitarian church of Boston; but soon after abandoned his profession, and, retiring to the village of Concord, devoted himself to his favorite study—the nature of man, and his relation to the universe. He delivered an oration called “ Manthinking,” before the Phi-Beta-Kappa Society in 1837; and an ad dress to the senior class of the Divinity College, Cambridge, in 1838. In 1838 he published, “Literary Ethics, an Oration;” in 1839, “Nature, an Essay;” and 1840 he was associated with Margaret Fuller, in editing the “Dial,” a magazine of li'eraturo. transcendental philosophy, and religion, which was continued four years. In 1841 ho published

“ The Method of Nature,” “ Man the Reformer,” three lectures on the times, and the first series of his “ Essays;” in 1844 the second series of his “ Essays.” In 1846 the first volume of his “ Poems ” appeared. In 1848 he travelled in England, and delivered lectures on “The Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth Century.” In 1850 he published a small volume entitled “ Representative Men.” The men whom he pourtrayod were Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspcarc, Napoleon, and Goethe, c-ach of whom ho regarded as the type of a class. In 1852, in connection with Mr W. H, Chancing and James F. Clarke, he published the “Memoirs of Margaret Euller, Marchess d’Oasoli.” Hie more recent works are “English Traits ” (1856); “The Conduct of Life” (1860); an “Oration on the D.ath of President Lincoln” (1865) “May Day and Other Pieces,” in verso (1867); “Society and Solitude;” a third volume of essays (1870); an introduction to Professor Goodwin’s translation of Plutarch’s Morals (1871); “Parnassus, selected Poems ” (1871); and a sourth volume of essays (1871.)