...cism could fitly be applied, just as it has been used to discourage the printing of Thoreau's whole journal. Is it not possible that Alcott's fame may yet be brought up gradually and securely, like Thoreau 's, from those ample and beautifully written volumes which Alcott left behind him? Alcott doubtless often erred, at first, in the direction of inflation in language. When the Town and Country Cl...