The death of Mr. James Russell Lowell, formerly the American
Minister in England, who was transferred hither from Spain in 1880, and served his country admirably in London for five years, and who was even better known as a great humourist, a refined poet, and a keen and generous and delicate critic, took place early on Wednesday, at his residence at Elmwood, near Boston. He was born on February 22nd. 1819, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, se that he had completed his seventy-second year. He was the son of a refined Unitarian minister, and his love of literature was so great, that though he studied law, took his degree of LL.B., and at one time actually opened an office in Boston, he never grappled prac- tically with any profession except that of literature, of which he was long a Professor at Harvard University.
