How Emerson's Faculties Failed

It is well known that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfollow were lifelong and very warm friends, and that the fonner attended the latter's funeral after more than half a century of intimacy. Emerson returned from the funeral in company with his daughter, and on the way home said mournfully, "My dear, he w-hose funeral we have just attended was a Deautiful gentleman;" and thenheadded aftera pause, "but I cannot remember his name. "