Mr.AldrichoncenoticedthatwheneveranauthordiedinBoston，theNew—
Yorkersthoughttheyhadaliterarycentre;anditisbysomesuchmeansthattheprimacyhaspassedfromBoston，evenifithasnotpassedtoNewYork.ButstillthereisenoughliteratureleftinthebodyatBostontokeepherfirstamongequalsinsomethings，ifnoteasilyfirstinall.
Mr.AldrichhimselflivesinBoston，andheis，withMr.Stedman，theforemostofourpoets.AtCambridgeliveColonelT.W.Higginson，anessayistinacertainsortwithoutrivalamongus;andMr.WilliamJames，themostinterestingandthemostliteraryofpsychologists，whosereputeisEuropeanaswellasAmerican.Mr.CharlesEliotNortonalonesurvivesoftheearlierCambridgegroup——Longfellow，Lowell，RichardHenryDana，LouisAgassiz，FrancisJ.Child，andHenryJames，thefatherofthenovelistandthepsychologist.
ToBostonMr.JamesFordRhodes，thelatestofourablerhistorians，hasgonefromOhio;andthereMr.HenryCabotLodge，theMassachusettsSenator，whoseworkinliteratureismakingitselfmoreandmoreknown，wasbornandbelongs，politically，socially，andintellectually.Mrs.
JuliaWardHowe，apoetofwidefameinaneldergeneration，livesthere;