Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Howells” in chapter 10 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:

...th Mr. James as representing the international school of novelists; yet in reality they belong to widely different subdivisions. After all, Mr. James has permanently set up his easel in Europe, Mr. Howells in America; and the latter has been, from the beginning, far less anxious to compare Americans with Europeans than with one another. He is international only if we adopt Mr. Emerson's saying that ...
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W. D. Howells 106 30 0 0 0 user votes
William Dean Howells 225 0 1 0 0 user votes
Howells 62 0 20 0 0 user votes
Tolstoy Howells 28 0 0 0 0 user votes
William D. Howells 16 0 2 0 0 user votes
J. A. Howells 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. C. Howells 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
F. Howells 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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