...iske, when the New York Nation headed its very discriminating sketch of him with the title John Fiske, Popularizer ; and I should feel that I showed no discourtesy, but on the contrary, did honor to Horace Elisha Scudder , in describing him as Literary Workman. I know of no other man in America, perhaps, who so well deserved that honorable name; no one, that is, who, if he had a difficult piece of literary work to d...