...ly brothers after that. It may have been in a similar spirit that Emerson and his foot-note might seem at first to have united their destinies. Emerson at that early period saw many defects in Alcott 's style, even so far as to say that it often reminded him of that vulgar saying, All stir and no go ; but twenty years later, in 1855, he magnificently vindicated the same style, then grown more cul...