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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, X. Charles Eliot Norton (search)
the early volumes of the Atlantic Monthly and see how largely he was relied upon for literary notices. If we examine, for instance, the fifth volume (1860), we find in the first number a paper on Clough's Plutarch's Lives, comprising ten pages of small print in double columns. There then follow in the same volume papers on Hodson's Twelve years of a Soldier's life in India, on Friends in council, on Brooks's Sermons, on Trollope's West Indies and the Spanish main, on Captain John Brown, on Vernon's Dante, and one on Model Lodging-houses in Boston. When we remember that his Notes of travel and study in Italy was also published in Boston that same year, being reviewed by some one in a notice of two pages in this same volume of the Atlantic, we may well ask who ever did more of genuine literary work in the same amount of time. This was, of course, before he became Professor in the college (1874), and his preoccupation in that way, together with his continuous labor on his translations