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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 2 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nebraska, (search)
on, 3,676. A separate vote on adding a prohibitory liquor clause to the constitution stood: For the amendment, 82,292; against, 111,728......November, 1890 Candidates on the Independent ticket prepare to contest the election, and taking of testimony begins at Lincoln......Dec. 5, 1890 The three candidates (Democrat, Republican, and Independent) claim the governorship......Jan. 9, 1891 Governor Thayer surrenders possession of the executive apartments to Boyd under protest......Jan. 15, 1891 Supreme Court of the State gives a decision ousting Boyd on ground that he is an alien and reinstating Thayer......May 5, 1891 Ex-Gov. David Butler dies near Pawnee City......May 25, 1891 Eight-hour law goes into effect......Aug. 1, 1891 United States Supreme Court declares James E. Boyd to be the rightful governor of the State......Feb. 1, 1892 Public demonstration in honor of inauguration of Governor Boyd takes place at Lincoln......Feb. 15, 1892 Silver anniversary of
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） The Two Lessons. [Sonnet.] (In Century Magazine, Dec.) Def. VI. Glimpses of Authors. (In Brains, Oct. 15-Jan. 1, 1892.) （Ed. with Mrs. Mabel L. Todd.) Poems, by Emily Dickinson. 2d series. （Ed. in part.) The Rindge Gifts to Cambridge. [City publication.] Articles. (In Harper's Bazar, Independent.) 1892 Concerning All of Us. The New World and the New Book: An Address delivered before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891, with kindred essays. Literature in a Republic: A Lecture. (In Reed and others, eds. Modern Eloquence, vol. 5.) Tribute to Lowell. (In Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion. In Memoriam.) Pph. Same. (In Cambridge Tribune, Feb. 20.) Youth and Literary Life. (In Lectures to Young Men, New York.) Pph. English Ancestry of the Higginson Family. (In New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April.) An Egyptian Banquet. [Sonnet.] (In Scribner's Magazine, Ap<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Preface (search)
Preface the address which forms the first chapter in these pages was given originally before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City on January 15, 1891, and was written out afterward. Its title was suggested by that of a remarkable essay contributed many years ago to the Atlantic Monthly, by my friend David Atwood Wasson and entitled, The New World and the New Man. I am indebted to the proprietors of the Century, the Independent, the Christian Union, and Harper's Bazar for permission to reprint such of the remaining chapters as appeared in their respective columns. Nothing is farther from the present writer's wish than to pander to any petty national vanity, his sole desire being to assist in creating a modest and reasonable self-respect. The civil war bequeathed to us Americans, twenty-five years ago, a great revival of national feeling; but this has been followed in some quarters, during the last few years, by a curious relapse into something of the old colonial an
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, The New world and the New book (search)
The New world and the New book [an address Delivered before the Nineteenth century Club, January 15, 1891.] it is a remarkable fact that the man who has, among all American authors, made the most daring and almost revolutionary claims in behalf of American literature should yet have been, among all these authors, the most equable ill temperament and the most cosmopolitan in training. Washington Irving was, as one may say, born a citizen of the world, for he was born in New York City. He was not a rustic nor a Puritan, nor even, in the American sense, a Yankee. He spent twenty-one years of his life in foreign countries. He was mistaken in England for an English writer. He was accepted as an adopted Spaniard in Spain. He died before the outbreak of the great Civil War, which did so much to convince us, for a time at least, that we were a nation. Yet it was Washington Irving who wrote to John Lothrop Motley, in 1857, two years before his own death:— You are properly se