It is pleasant to think that Harvard is to have a substantial and lasting memorial of Longfellow, whose services for eighteen years as professor of belles-lettres contributed much to the renown of the university. It is especially gratifying to think that this tribute to the man whose memory is so dear to all of us should come from those English cousins across the Atlantic whose appreciation of him as a poet was almost, if not fully, as great as that of his own friends and countrymen. The act is only another instance of the growing feeling of friendship which is fast uniting the two great English speaking nations into one great commonwealth of letters. Let us hope that a fitting position may be found in which to place this new memorial bust. Where could a better place be found than in the library where the material work of the great poet finds its Harvard resting place?
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