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where the scholars are divided into classes and recite lessons to the teachers. He was himself the only teacher. He told them stories illustrating some simple moral principle—Truth, Generosity, Love, and Loyalty; talking familiarly with them of the perplexities which even children often suffer from, in deciding between Right and Wrong. These little talks were delightful to listen to, they were so simple and clear and impressive. But companionship with the children was not confined to Sundays, for he enticed a select circle of pet little girls to play Puss-in-the-corner on the green after tea. I am plunging, he told his mother, into parish visiting with great pleasure. It is rich to see the small children. In referring to one child, he said, The little darling . . . showed me her dolly, with both legs broken off. It was a young lady doll, but He's broken his legs, said she — he has to walk on his drawers' . . . . But, she added hopefully— one of 'em is growing out again —
January (search for this): chapter 12
s, there is generally grumbling and dissatisfaction.—Every captain of a transport who has once taken my regiment wishes to take it again in preference to whites . . . . The very listening to these people is like adjusting the ear to some foreign tongue. Imagine one of the camp washerwomen saying dramatically to-day, I took she when she am dat high, and now if him wants to leave we, let he go ; the person thus chaotically portrayed being a little adopted girl who had deserted her. In January, the Colonel reports that he has presented a sheep to a fellow-officer's wife, and says:— You don't know how pastoral I feel, when I contemplate my little flock of sheep straying round to find something to nibble; as soon as they succeed they will grow fat and we shall nibble them. They are pro-slavery sheep, as Kansas used to say. It was necessary to exercise some ingenuity in order to keep up military guise, for Colonel Higginson wrote to his wife:— When any occasion requ<
January (search for this): chapter 13
she .. gets on well, makes pretty bad bread and is too old to come upstairs. Again: Able to enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving at home. M. was very happy and the little house seemed very pleasant. I desire not to get used to it, but to keep freshly in mind what a pleasure it is to have a home. The diary of 1870 recorded that the writer was reading and planning for Europe. On each birthday or New Year's Day, Colonel Higginson wrote in his journal a brief summary of his life, and under date of January I, 1870, occurs the following:— I begin the year under some new spiritual influences, I hope, with some firmer purposes, more patience. I shall miss Malbone and feel yearly the want of social interests here—but I have the prospect of Europe, which will be a great era. This plan was sorrowfully relinquished, and in March he wrote:— I am suffering under unusual depression, for me, partly the disappointment about Europe . . . and partly the stagnation of this place and my monotono<
January (search for this): chapter 17
Counting-Room. (In Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Jan.） Speech at Anti-Slavery Convention. (In Libbarism and Civilization. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） Same. (In his Outdoor Papers, 1863.) Gym Books of the Year. (In North American Review, Jan.） （Ed.) Harvard Memorial Biographies. 2 volsort） Malbone. Same. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.-June.) Ought Women to vote? Memoir of Dr.ericanism in Literature. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） Same. (In his Atlantic Essays. 1871.) A Childhood's Fancies. (In Scribner's Monthly, Jan.） Lowell's Among my Books. Second Series. (I William Lloyd Garrison. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.) Def. II. Grant. (In Atlantic Monthly, March) A World Literature. (In Century Magazine, Jan.） Letter Relating to the Cambridge Public Libe Transcendental Period. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） English and American Cousins. (In Atlantic) American Audiences. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） The Close of the Victorian Epoch. (In Atla
January 1st (search for this): chapter 5
In this mental perplexity, he wrote to his fiancee:— I feel that I have a right to some means of influence. I should prefer poetry or in general, literature —because that lasts the longest, but should be content with blacking boots, if I could only feel that to be the thing for which I was intended. The student's interest in political questions never flagged, and in January, 1846, he thus commits himself to the disunion project:— I might have recorded on my birthday or New Year's Day, my final self-enrollment in the ranks of the American Non-Jurors or Disunion Abolitionists and my determination not only not to vote for any officer who must take oath to support the U. S. Constitution, but also to use whatever means may lie in my power to promote the Dissolution of the Union. . . . To Disunion I now subscribe in the full expectation that a time is coming which may expose to obloquy and danger even the most insignificant of the adherents to such a cause. In the foll<
January 1st (search for this): chapter 6
a committee of three which offered a prize of ten dollars each for the best essay and the best poem. Harriet Prescott wrote the successful essay on Hamlet, and remembers how she retired to her room in deep emotion after receiving from Mr. Higginson's hands her gold eagle in a little mesh purse. His practical interest in libraries seems from this record to have begun here. We have about $1250 subscribed and hope to get $1500 in town and $500 to $1000 out of town—besides books. By January 1 I hope the Library will go into operation; but we have a temporary place of deposit now. In answer to his mother's entreaties, he wrote:— Thanks for your letter and its excellent advice. Certainly I shall never edit a paper—not go solely into politics; and as for companions I am always too thankful for real ones to care what garments they wear,— Bob my principal crony, at the Mills, has rather nondescript ones at present, but will probably come to pantaloons in time. . . . Did
January 1st (search for this): chapter 9
ity of these years wore even on Mr. Higginson's wonderful physique and he wrote:— I suppose that even I myself can hardly realize how much overworked I have been this winter—so much writing and speaking and visiting have I had to do (studying has been almost suspended)—to say nothing of travelling for various objects and the constant care of my wife who has scarcely ever needed more attention. . . We suspended housekeeping awhile, for my wife's health, and have been boarding since New Year's at the queerest old rambling Hotel, one of the few old things in Worcester . . . . We are so very nicely placed here at the Lincoln House, M. is quite delighted. We have a pleasant parlor on Elm St. with a little bedroom and a large closet; it fronts South and the house is brick, so it is perfectly warm and M. has stood a snowstorm without a shudder. . . . There is a girl with a violent piano below, a man with a violent nose beside us, and two youths over our heads who apparently sleep<
January 1st (search for this): chapter 12
te to his mother that the colored people were planning a great fair in Beaufort which enlisted all hands; and that on New Year's Day there was to be a barbecue and dance in the evening at the principal restaurant. He added:— This saloon was toas lost. Instead, the proprietor is one of six (all black) who have made up $60 to buy a sword to be presented me on New Year's Day. December 28, he wrote:— We are busy with preparations for New Year's Day. My sword has come, but I have not sNew Year's Day. My sword has come, but I have not seen it— it was selected by Frank Shaw and cost $75. This with my captured one and the one given at Worcester will be a memorial, when the war is over, of my share in it. After the presentation of this sword he reported:— Jan. 8, 1864. Did I tell you that after the New Year's Festivals, the little Tribune correspondent came to me for my wemarks (he is English, 3 feet high; and a goosey) and the inscription on my sword. I could not give him the former but the latter was easily mad
January 1st (search for this): chapter 13
one spot to me since I planned a scene there for my romance. In 1866, he finished the Memorial Biographies and wrote, Liberty at last. A few days later his diary chronicles, Offer from Fields to write 10 articles for Atlantic for $1000—from Jan. 1. Of one of these papers, A Driftwood Fire, he wrote in his diary:— Jan. 24, 1867. When I print a thing like the Driftwood Fire—which seems to me to have a finer touch in it than anything I ever wrote—I feel as if it were thrown into the the little house seemed very pleasant. I desire not to get used to it, but to keep freshly in mind what a pleasure it is to have a home. The diary of 1870 recorded that the writer was reading and planning for Europe. On each birthday or New Year's Day, Colonel Higginson wrote in his journal a brief summary of his life, and under date of January I, 1870, occurs the following:— I begin the year under some new spiritual influences, I hope, with some firmer purposes, more patience. I
January 5th (search for this): chapter 17
(In Century Magazine, Sept.) Def. VI. A June Migration. (In Appalachia, Dec.） Articles. (In Harper's Bazar, Independent.) 1888 Short Studies of American Authors. Rev. and enl. Address. (In Reunion of the Free-Soilers of 1848-1852, Boston, June 28.) Pph. John Brown. (In Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.) English Sources of American Dialect. (In American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. New series, vol. 4.) Howell's Modern Italian Poets. (In Nation, Jan. 5.) A Precursor of Hawthorne [William Austin]. (In Independent. March 29.) English and American Manners. (In Forum, July.) Speech. (In Protest against the Majority Report on the Employment and Schooling of Children, and against any Legislative Interference with Private Schools, Massachusetts House Document, No. 19.) Pph. 1889 The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations. Travellers and Outlaws. Three Outdoor Papers. (Riverside Literature Series.) Pph. Lowell in Cam
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