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a standard, not waiting to be judged by one.
The most variously accomplished literary critic in England, the late Mark Pattison, said to me of certain American books then lately published, ‘Is such careful writing appreciated in the United States?
It would not be in England.’
On the shores of a new continent, then, there was already a standard which was in one respect better than the cosmopolitan.
Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1892.
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