Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Howells” in chapter 10 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
...fails to give pleasure by the mere process of writing, and this is much, to begin with; just as, when we are listening to conversation, a musical voice gratifies us almost more than wit or wisdom.
Mr. Howells is without an equal among his English-speaking contemporaries as to some of the most attractive literary graces.
Unless it be in Mr. James, he has no rival for half-tints, for modulations, forsubti...
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