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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, Note (search)
rk called Book and heart, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897, by Harper and Brothers, with whose consent the essay entitled One of Thackeray's women also is published. Leave has been obtained to reprint the papers on Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau, from Carpenter's American prose, copyrighted by the Macmillan Company, 1898. My thanks are also due to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for permission to reprint the papers on Scudder, Atkinson, and Cabot; to the proprietors of Putnam's magazine for the paper entitled Emerson's foot-note person ; to the proprietors of the New York Evening post for the article on George Bancroft from The nation ; to the editor of the Harvard graduates' magazine for the paper on Gottingen and Harvard ; and to the editors of the Outlook for the papers on Charles Eliot Norton, Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William J. Rolfe, and Old Newport days. Most of the remaining sketches appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly. T. W. H.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
ial which we meet to dedicate, and which records the first interview in 1620 between the little group of Plymouth Pilgrims and Massasoit, known as the greatest commander of the country, and Sachem of the whole region north of Narragansett Bay. Bancroft's History of the United States, i, 247. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, says the poet Pope; and nothing is more remarkable in human history than the way in which great events sometimes reach their climax at once, instead of friend, Mr. Butterworth, and I have already said enough. Nor can I paint the background of that strange early society of Rhode Island, its reaction from the stern Massachusetts rigor, and its quaint and varied materials. In that new state, as Bancroft keenly said, there were settlements filled with the strangest and most incongruous elements . . . so that if a man had lost his religious opinions, he might have been sure to find them again in some village in Rhode Island. Meanwhile the old
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, IX: George Bancroft (search)
IX: George Bancroft George Bancroft, who died in Washington, D. C., on January 17, 1891, was George Bancroft, who died in Washington, D. C., on January 17, 1891, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 3, 1800, being the son of Aaron and Lucretia (Chandler) B Round Hill School. While at Round Hill, Mr. Bancroft prepared some text-books for his pupils, treither of these descriptions exactly fitted Mr. Bancroft; his manners were really of the composite sy inexhaustible old age; and, unlike Adams, Mr. Bancroft kept his social side always fresh and activpendence is inevitable; but, unfortunately, Mr. Bancroft was not, except in the very earliest volumes is wrong. Much of the graphic quality of Mr. Bancroft's writing is obtained by this means, and thlly cited here. Yet any one who will compare Bancroft's draft with the original in the Records of Ms in the words of its supposed author or of Mr. Bancroft. It is no answer to say that this loose memen will say of me — he died learning. But Mr. Bancroft at least died laboring, and in the harness.[28 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 21 (search)
Howes, but such families as the Bancrofts, the Warings, the Partons, the Potters, the Woolseys, the Hunts, the Rogerses, the Hartes, the Hollands, the Goodwins, Kate Field, and others besides, who were readily brought together for any intellectual enjoyment. No one was the recognized leader, though Mrs. Howe came nearest to it; but they met as cheery companions, nearly all of whom have passed away. One also saw at their houses some agreeable companions and foreign notabilities, as when Mr. Bancroft entertained the Emperor and Empress of Brazil, passing under an assumed name, but still attended by a veteran maid, who took occasion to remind everybody that her Majesty was a Bourbon, with no amusing result except that one good lady and experienced traveler bent one knee for an instant in her salutation. The nearest contact of this circle with the unequivocally fashionable world was perhaps when Mrs. William B. Astor, the mother of the present representative of that name in England, an
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 23 (search)
o was willing to work hard, all the Latin and Greek requisite for admission. This letter from Cogswell refers to George Bancroft, who was subsequently sent out by Harvard College, after his graduation in 1817, that he might be trained for the see of the institution. Gottingen, May 4th, 1819. It was truly generous and noble in the corporation to send out young Bancroft in the manner I understand they did; he will reward them for it. I thought very much of him, when I had him under my cha It appears from a letter of my father's, fourteen years later (November 21, 1833), that, after four years abroad, Mr. Bancroft's college career was a disappointment, and he was evidently regarded as a man spoiled by vanity and self-consciousnessre. He would not manage things under control of others, and so left College and sat up Round Hill School. His partner, Bancroft,--an unsuccessful scholar, pet of Dr. Kirkland's, who like Everett had four years abroad, mostly Germany, and at expense
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 24 (search)
e in rubbing his hands with delight, saying that Bryce had just heard a boarder at the hotel where he was staying say European twice, and had stopped to make a note of it in his diary. But I cannot allow further space to them, nor even to Mr. George Bancroft, about whom the reader will find a more ample sketch in this volume (page 95). I will, however, venture to repeat one little scene illustrating with what parental care he used to accompany young ladies on horseback in his old age, galloping over the Newport beaches. On one of these occasions, after he had dismounted to adjust his fair companion's stirrup, he was heard to say to her caressingly, Don't call me Mr. Bancroft, call me George! In regard to my friend, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and her Newport life, I have written so fully of her in the article on page 287 of this volume that I shall hardly venture it again. Nor have I space in which to dwell on the further value to our little Newport circle of such women as Katharine P.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
steadily maturing into universities all over the country, has made itself felt more and more obviously, especially as these colleges have with startling suddenness and comprehensiveness extended their privileges to women also, whether in the form of coeducation or of institutions for women only. For many years, the higher intellectual training of Americans was obtained almost entirely through periods of study in Europe, especially in Germany. Men, of whom Everett, Ticknor, Cogswell, and Bancroft were the pioneers, beginning in 1818 or thereabouts, discovered that Germany and not England must be made our national model in this higher education; and this discovery was strengthened by the number of German refugees, often highly trained men, who sought this country for political safety. The influence of German literature on the American mind was undoubtedly at its highest point half a century ago, and the passing away of the great group of German authors then visible was even more str