... in for a week by The chill embargo of the snow, which bids us pause to view These Flemish pictures of old days, is not only a poem but a social document of the highest value. In the words of T. W. Higginson , Here we have absolutely photographed the Puritan Colonial interior, as it existed till within the memory of old men still living. No other book, no other picture preserves it to us; all other...