Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 12, page 130 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
...iew, (July, 1837):—
One of the most prominent characteristics of these tales is, that they are national in their character.
The author has wisely chosen his themes among the traditions of New England ; the dusty legends of the good Old Colony times, when we lived under a king.
This is the right material for story.
It seems as natural to make tales out of old tumble-down
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