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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 253 253 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 76 76 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 53 53 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 39 39 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 38 38 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 28 28 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 22 22 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 18 18 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 16 16 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 15 15 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
wers, but of a well-nigh fatal instinct for superrefinement in life and art. So subtle and detached is his later method, that it has been said of him, not unfairly, Even his cosmopolitanism has its limitations; to be truly cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. Mark Twain. Over-refinement is not the fault with which Mark Twain can ever be accused; his reckless robustness, indeed, constitutes his main strength. I myself was first introduced to Mark Twain's books in 1872 by an unimpeachable English authority-on a somewhat different line from Mr. Clemens,--namely, Charles Darwin. What! he said to me, you have never read Mark Twain? I always keep his Jumping Frog on a chair by my bedside that I may turn to it in case of sleeplessness! and however doubtful this form of compliment may appear, it was certainly something that it cheered the wakeful hours of so great a brain. It is not to be admitted, however, that Englishmen have ever been very discriminating
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
death; a sixth volume being added later, and in 1872 a volume of selected sermons entitled The perfeacco and Alcohol (1868); Myths and Myth-Makers (1872) ; Outlines of Cosmic philosophy based on the df the Island of Cos (1859); Legends and Lyrics (1872); The Mountain of the lovers, and other poems (em (1867); The marble Prophecy and other poems (1872); Arthur Bonnicastle (1873); The mistress of thks are Verses by H. H. （1870); Bits of travel (1872); Bits of talk about home matters (1873); SonneTing-a-ling stories (1870); Roundabout Rambles (1872) ; What might have been expected (1874); Tales out of School (1872) ; A Jolly Fellowship (1880) ; The Floating Prince (1881) ; The story of Viteau e. He was literary editor of the Boston Globe, 1872-73. Among his publications are Essays and revy (1871) ; As strong as a bird on Pinions free (1872) ; Specimen days, and collect (1883); November d other poems (1870); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872) ; Hazel blossoms (1874) ; Mabel Martin (1875);[5 more...]