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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 257 257 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.) 34 34 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) 27 27 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 23 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 12 12 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 10 10 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 8 8 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 7 7 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 7 7 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10: forecast (search)
eid. Those who enjoy Gunter would have then read, it is to be presumed, the writings of Mr. J. W. Buel, whose very name will be, to most readers of to-day, unknown. His Beautiful story reached a sale of nearly three hundred thousand copies in two years; his Living world and The story of man were sold to the number of nearly two hundred and fifty thousand each, and were endorsed by Gladstone and Bismarck. This was only fifteen years ago, for in 1888 he received for copyright $33,000 and in 1889 $50,000; yet one rarely finds any book of reference or library catalogue that contains his name. Is it not better to be unknown in one's lifetime, and yet live forever by one poem, like Blanco White with his sonnet called Life and light, or by one saying, like Fletcher of Saltoun, with his I care not who makes the laws of a people, so I can make its ballads, than to achieve such evanescent splendors as this? One thing the larger public is likely to do. It is a fortunate fact that popular
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
Wilson of Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American biography (1886-89). He died July 4, 1901. Franklin, Benjamin Statesman aomplete collection of his works edited by John Bigelow (1887-89) consists, in a great part, of letters written in a clear, bh liberty (1888); A Phyllis of the Sierras (1888) ; Cressy (1889) ; the Heritage of Dedlow Marsh (1889); A Waif of the Plain1889); A Waif of the Plains (1890); and a second series of Condensed novels (1902). He died at Red House, Camberley, in Surrey, Eng., May 6, 1902. 874). The correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, D. C. L. （1889) was edited by G. W. Curtis. Died at Kingston-Russell hous81) ; The story of Viteau (1884); and Personally conducted (1889). His novels and short stories include Rudder Grange (1879)bright, with other stories (1888); The great War Syndicate (1889); The stories of the three Burglars (1890) ; and The Merry and a collective edition entitled Complete poems and prose (1889). Died Mar. 26, 1892. Whittier, John Greenleaf Born i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
op & Co., 1891. B. Wendell's Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest, Makers of America series, 1891. Allen's Jonathan Edwards, American religious leaders Se-ries, 1889. (B) The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse, edited by D. H. Ellis, Charlestown, 1867. Mather's Magnalia, 2 vols., Hartford, 1853. Jonathan ter 3: the Philadelphia period (A) McMaster's Life of Franklin, American men of letters series, 1887. Morse's Life of Franklin, American statesmen series, 1889. William H. Prescott's Life of Charles Brockden Brown (printed in Sparks's Library of American biography, and in Prescott's Biographical and critical Miscellustin Dobson's At the sign of the Lyre. 1887. Kipling's Plain tales from the Hills. 1887. Matthew Arnold died. 1888. Bryce's The American Commonwealth. 1889. Browning died. 1892. Tennyson died. 1899. South African War. 1901. Queen Victoria died. American 1607. Landing at Jamestown. 1608. John Smith's