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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 2 0 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) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 2 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 2 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Margaret Fuller Ossoli. (search)
e ever published in one year so much of good criticism as is to be found in these four essays. She wrote also, during this period, the shorter critical notices, which were good, though unequal. She was one of the first to do hearty justice to Hawthorne, of whom she wrote, in 1840, No one of all our imaginative writers has indicated a genius at once so fine and so rich. Hawthorne was at that time scarcely known, and it is singular to read in her diary, four years earlier, her account of readHawthorne was at that time scarcely known, and it is singular to read in her diary, four years earlier, her account of reading one of his Twice-told tales, under the impression that it was written by somebody in Salem, whom she took to be a lady. I find that I underscored in my copy of the Dial, with the zeal of eighteen, her sympathetic and wise remark on Lowell's first volume. The proper critic of this book would be some youthful friend to whom it has been of real value as a stimulus. The exaggerated praise of such an one would be truer to the spiritual fact of its promise than accurate measure of its perfor
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Camilla Urso (search)
her usual time of practice, and in the long summer days, when other artists seek change or diversion, she finds her recreation in her beloved instrument. On being asked whether she composed for her violin, she answered, Yes, some little pieces,--the Mother's Prayer, the Dream,--but they are nothing. It is enough for me to render the works of the great masters. In her childlike devotion to the genius of Beethoven, Chopin, and Mendelssohn, she reminds one of Hilda, the girl-artist of Hawthorne's Marble Faun, whose life was spent in study of Raphael and Michael Angelo. It is better, thinks this earnest woman, to render vocal the great conceptions of the past, than to win a cheap reputation by fleeting musical mediocrities. Her remarkable memory retains all the music she plays, the orchestral parts as well as her own. Madame Urso's stay in this country is now uncertain. Her latest performances have been in the New England cities, and in New York. She has accepted an engag
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
of Cousin's lectures on Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. He was one of the founders of the New York Review, and from 1839 to 1852 Professor of History and Philosophy in the University of New York. Mr. Ripley, George Ripley was born in Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1802. He published, 1838-1842, Edited Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature, which contained his translations of Cousin, Jouffroy, and B. Constant. He was one of the Brook-Farm community in Roxbury, Mass., of which Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance was written. In 1849 he became, as he still continues, the literary editor of the New York Tribune. He edited, with Charles A. Dana as associate, the American Cyclopaedia. Mr. Brooks. Rev. Charles Brooks, 1795-1872; a Unitarian clergyman in Hingham, Mass., and afterwards Professor of Natural History in the University of New York. Mr. Bancroft, but particularly Mr. Brownson; Orestes A. Brownson, 1803-1876. He was by turns the partisan of various theologies; fina
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VII: Henry David Thoreau (search)
y point. Why should any one wish to have Thoreau's journals printed? Ten years later, four successive volumes were made out of these journals by the late H. G. O. Blake, and it became a question if the whole might not be published. I hear from a local photograph dealer in Concord that the demand for Thoreau's pictures now exceeds that for any other local celebrity. In the last sale catalogue of autographs which I have encountered, I find a letter from Thoreau priced at $17.50, one from Hawthorne valued at the same, one from Longfellow at $4.50 only, and one from Holmes at $3, each of these being guaranteed as an especially good autograph letter. Now the value of such memorials during a man's life affords but a slight test of his permanent standing,--since almost any man's autograph can be obtained for two postage-stamps if the request be put with sufficient ingenuity;--but when this financial standard can be safely applied more than thirty years after a man's death, it comes pret
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
the career of one who was born with as little that seemed advantageous in his surroundings as was the case with Abraham Lincoln, or John Brown of Ossawatomie, and who yet developed in the end an individuality as marked as that of Poe or Walt Whitman. In looking back on the intellectual group of New England, eighty years ago, nothing is more noticeable than its birth in a circle already cultivated, at least according to the standard of its period. Emerson, Channing, Bryant, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, even Whittier, were born into what were, for the time and after their own standard, cultivated families. They grew up with the protection and stimulus of parents and teachers; their early biographies offer nothing startling. Among them appeared, one day, this student and teacher, more serene, more absolutely individual, than any one of them. He had indeed, like every boy born in New England, some drop of academic blood within his traditions, but he was born in the house
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 17 (search)
ndoubtedly, apart from his biographies, the volume entitled Childhood in literature and art (1894). This book was based on a course of Lowell lectures given by him in Boston, and is probably that by which he himself would wish to be judged, at least up to the time of his excellent biography of Lowell. He deals in successive chapters with Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Mediaeval, English, French, German, and American literary art with great symmetry and unity throughout, culminating, of course, in Hawthorne and analyzing the portraits of children drawn in his productions. In this book one may justly say that he has added himself, in a degree, to the immediate circle of those very few American writers whom he commemorates so nobly at the close of his essay on Longfellow and his art, in Men and letters : It is too early to make a full survey of the immense importance to American letters of the work done by half-a-dozen great men in the middle of this century. The body of prose and verse creat
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
he robin is the one That overflows the noon With her cherubic quantity, An April but begun. The robin is the one That, speechless from her nest, Submits that home and certainty And sanctity are best. In the summer of 1863 I was wounded, and in hospital for a time, during which came this letter in pencil, written from what was practically a hospital for her, though only for weak eyes:-- Dear friend,--Are you in danger? I did not know that you were hurt. Will you tell me more? Mr. Hawthorne died. I was ill since September, and since April in Boston for a physician's care. He does not let me go, yet I work in my prison, and make guests for myself. Carlo did not come, because that he would die in jail; and the mountains I could not hold now, so I brought but the Gods. I wish to see you more than before I failed. Will you tell me your health? I am surprised and anxious since receiving your note. The only news I know Is bulletins all day From Immortality. Can
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
on upon which other structures are to rise; the humanity which it holds is entering into the life of the country, and no material invention, or scientific discovery, or institutional prosperity, or accumulation of wealth will so powerfully affect the spiritual well-being of the nation for generations to come. The geographical headquarters of this particular group was Boston, of which Cambridge and Concord may be regarded for this purpose as suburbs. Such a circle of authors as Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Alcott, Thoreau, Parkman, and others had never before met in America; and now that they have passed away, no such local group anywhere remains: nor has the most marked individual genius elsewhere — such, for instance, as that of Poe or Whitman — been the centre of so conspicuous a combination. The best literary representative of this group of men in bulk was undoubtedly the Atlantic Monthly, to which almost every one of them contributed, and of which they ma
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Hawthorne. (search)
Hawthorne. I do not know when I have been more surprised than on being asked, the other day, the neighbors as the Prince. When I passed, Hawthorne lifted upon me his great gray eyes, with a l he found an eagle's feather. Again I met Hawthorne at one of the sessions of a short-lived liteer on the surface, and could be no model for Hawthorne's. Yet from the time when the latter began tthe very highest types of artist. Through Hawthorne's journals we trace the mental impulses by wo it is in reading Septimius Felton. In all Hawthorne's completed works, the pencilling is rubbed peared. One of the most characteristic of Hawthorne's literary methods is his habitual use of gut being embarrassed by his own ideas. Mrs. Hawthorne told me that her husband grappled alone all ng overcrowded by the very wealth it bears. Hawthorne never needed Italic letters to distribute hi all coming time. The popular impression of Hawthorne as a shy and lonely man, gives but a part of[11 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Poe. (search)
ty; and, among these few, Poe stands next to Hawthorne in the vividness of personal impression he pnative prose-writing is as unquestionable as Hawthorne's. He even succeeded, which Hawthorne did noHawthorne did not, in penetrating the artistic indifference of the French mind; and it was a substantial triumph, wative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Neither Poe nor Hawthorne has ever been fully recognized in England; aamed with theirs. But in comparing Poe with Hawthorne, we see that the genius of the latter has haphic form, he is often most trivial, whereas Hawthorne is often profoundest when he has disarmed yoial those great intellectual resources which Hawthorne reverently husbanded and used. That there i and finally he tried to make it appear that Hawthorne had borrowed from himself. He returned agaiy with Longfellow, thus condescendingly with Hawthorne, he was claiming a foremost rank among Amerihe austere virtues — the virtues of Emerson, Hawthorne, Whittier — are the best soil for genius. [1 more...]<
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