[Illustration: JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, AFTER THE BUST BY WILLIAM ORDWAY PARTRIDGE. (TAKEN FROM THE CLAY)] Among his many titles to the special consideration and gratitude of his countrymen, James Russell Lowell had one in pre-eminence--an unyielding loyalty to all that was best in American ideas and aims. It was this quality that gave point to the wit of Hosea Biglow, and loftiness to his imagination in his more serious poems. In the earliest of the Biglow papers, he calls upon Massachusetts to…
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