...re eggs. This, you observe, teaches children not to value themselves too highly, to respect crockery and varnish, and to cultivate self-reliance. The copious letters written by Lowell to Charles F. Briggs , and printed in full by Professor Norton, recall to me the answer of the once noted New York author, Henry T. Tuckerman, when I asked him how it was that Lowell gained applause so easily, while so ma...