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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 36 (search)
rest is brought forward by one of the most eminent of American philologists, Horatio Hale. It forms the substance of an address given at Buffalo, New York, in his cacounting for them has hitherto seemed almost insuperable. Yet all this while, Mr. Hale thinks, the real solution was one of the simplest things in the world, and laygave the key to the whole mystery. The solution is to be found, according to Mr. Hale, in what he calls the language-making instinct of very young children. Thersmall circulation, the Monthly Journal of Psychological Medicine, he gave what Mr. Hale calls a clear and scientific account of something more of the same kind. It ws way with the greatest rapidity and fluency. Further inquiries have shown, Mr. Hale says, that this phenomenon is not unusual, and the theory he founds upon it isld account for all the entirely distinct stocks upon the face of the earth. Mr. Hale points out, in confirmation of this theory, that much the larger part of these
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, V. James Fenimore Cooper (search)
ott was far more profuse and varied, but he gave no more of life to individual personages, and perhaps created no types so universally recognized. What is most remarkable is that, in the case of the Indian especially, Cooper was not only in advance of the knowledge of his own time, but of that of the authors who immediately followed him. In Parkman and Palfrey, for instance, the Indian of Cooper vanishes and seems wholly extinguished; but under the closer inspection of Alice Fletcher and Horatio Hale, the lost figure reappears, and becomes more picturesque, more poetic, more thoughtful, than even Cooper dared to make him. The instinct of the novelist turned out more authoritative than the premature conclusions of a generation of historians. It is only women who can draw the commonplace, at least in English, and make it fascinating. Perhaps only two English women have done this, Jane Austen and George Eliot; while in France George Sand has certainly done it far less well than it h