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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.) 114 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 36 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 18 0 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.) 14 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 13 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howells, William Dean 1837- (search)
Howells, William Dean 1837- Author; born in Martin Ferry, O., March 1, 1837. His education was largely acquired in Ohio newspaper offices, where he worked as compositor, correspondent, and editor. In 1861-65 he was United States consul in Venice, and while there studied Italian language and literature; in 1865-66 was an editorial writer on The nation, and in 1866-72 its assistant editor; in 1872-81 editor of the Atlantic monthly; in 1886-91 an editorial contributor to Harper's magazine, in Harper's monthly magazine, which had been vacant since the death of George William Curtis in 1892. He is the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; Venetian life; Italian journeys; Life of Rutherford B. Hayes; The undiscovered country; William Dean Howells. A woman's reason; Christmas every day; The day of their wedding; An open-eyed conspiracy; Stories of Ohio; Ragged Lady; Their silver wedding journey, and many others. He was also the editor of Choice biographies, with essays, and Library
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Libraries, free public (search)
on of the newspaper and periodical press. In 1850, when the free public library was started, the number of newspapers and periodicals published in the United States was about 2,500; now it is nearly 20,000. The total annual issues have increased from 400,000,000 to over 4,500,000,000 copies. The ordinary daily of 1850 contained perhaps a single column of literary matter. To-day it contains, for the same price, seven columns. In 1850 it gave no space to fiction; now it offers Kipling, Howells, Stockton, Bret Harte, Anthony Hope, Crockett, Bourget, and many others of the best of the contemporary writers of fiction. Then there are the cheap magazines, which tender a half-dozen stories for the price of a cigar or a bodkin. There are, also, the cheap libraries, which have flooded the United States with engaging literature available to almost any purse. In short, conditions have altered. A vast mass of light literature is now cheaply accessible to the individual which formerl
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 7: a very moral and nice book (search)
ndrew Lang, that he should have lived fifty years in the world and only just bethought himself of reading this book for the first time! It is fortunate that he now kindly pronounces it to be, in some respects, noble and moving ; in fact, a moral and nice book. What enhances the zest of the affair is that, while Mr. Lang thus leaves his Scott thus insufficiently read, he yet holds his neighbor of the Tweed as a rod over the head of any luckless modern writer who dares to criticise him. Mr. Howells cannot so much as venture the remark that good Sir Walter's opening chapter of genealogy is sometimes a little long-winded, and that it may be permissible to begin with Chapter Second, but he rouses Mr. Lang's utmost indignation. Mr. Haggard cannot be classed as a dime novelist without protests of amazement and assurances that he is the lineal successor of Scott, and that to have left unread a single story of Haggard's is to have fallen short of the highest culture. Omit, if you will, t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 18: the future of polite society (search)
e manners — that is, human. As vocations are gradually refined and elevated by machinery-turning, as Napoleon Bonaparte predicted, trades into arts — it becomes more and more absurd to classify men and women by occupation instead of character. Howells has lately pointed out how pitifully Dickens stultified his own democratic tendencies when he showed himself really and lastingly ashamed of having once put up shoe-blacking as a boy, and was unable to forgive his mother for suffering him to bee showed himself really and lastingly ashamed of having once put up shoe-blacking as a boy, and was unable to forgive his mother for suffering him to be so degraded. Howells adds, admirably, One perceives that he too was the slave of conventions and the victim of conditions which it is the highest function of his criticism to help destroy. It may be set down as a certainty that no form of society is permanent which makes any person ashamed of ever having done a stroke of honest labor.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 24: on the natural disapproval of wealth (search)
sprinkle them broadcast in the public streets. The tramps and waifs of the nation would rapidly gather in that town, and all honest and frugal life would be at an end. To invest the money in novel enterprises, even for the public good, might be almost as hopeless; because the whole theory of social progress is still so imperfectly worked out that the first attempts must for years be failures. No wonder that the rich man, even if conscientious, is puzzled, and, if fresh from the reading of Howells's Altruria, yet postpones his actual experiments until Edward Bellamy and Henry George have reconciled their warring projects. What socialists find it hard to recognize is that personal wealth rarely comes by accident, but in most cases by natural leadership, by skill, or by inheritance from skill. Of course the rich man uses the laws of nature and the general progress of society, but the trouble is that he often uses them with an ability which his neighbors cannot supply in his place.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 25: the complaint of the poor (search)
Chapter 25: the complaint of the poor It is impossible for a prosperous and comfortable person to understand the point of view of the dissatisfied-whether in the case of the ordinary socialist or of Mr. Howells-without keeping in mind such facts as the following, which the writer happens to know pretty directly: A poor cobbler was troubled, as many men are, with an insatiable love of mechanical invention; and this was finally concentrated on a mechanism for tying and binding in connection with a reaper. It was for a need then very imperfectly filled, and promised great rewards if successful. He worked at it for years, impoverishing his family for it, until his wife implored him to give it up altogether. Getting it at last, however, into final shape, he carried it to one of the chief establishments which manufactured reapers, and offered it for inspection and sale. After a little examination it was rejected decisively as being too complicated; the inventor went home in despa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 33: the test of talk (search)
er the fatal words, Them's the jockeys for me. After that the case was hopeless; he had betrayed himself in five words. Of course the speaker might still have been a saint or a hero at heart, but so far as it went the test was conclusive. In Howells's Lady of the Aroostook the young men were appalled at hearing the only young lady on board remark, as an expression of surprise, that she wanted to know. It pointed unerringly, they thought, to a rusticity of breeding. In time she developed om any such grammatical misadventures might still use smaller inelegancies which would also classify them in the ears of the fastidious. They might say, for instance, cute, or I don't know as, or a great ways. Nine-tenths of us, according to Mr. Howells, would use some of these phrases, but there is no question that they will grate upon the ears of the other tenth. They do not touch the morals, the intelligence, the essential good manners, of those who utter them; they simply classify such p
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Advertisements. (search)
8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 50. Those who have not read the essays in the magazines have a delightful treat in store, and those who have will be glad to possess these thoughtful, scholarly, and witty discourses in a form convenient for reference.-Springfield Republican. Several pregnant and brilliant papers, in which is emphasized the true conception of culture, the noblesse oblige of scholarship.-Hartford Courant. impressions and experiences. By W. D. Howells. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 50. We fail to see how any one who is fond of good writing, and loves to spend the leisure moments of the day in the company of a strong and original mind, can help submitting to the charm of these essays.-Examiner, N. Y. aspects of fiction, and Other Ventures in Criticism. By Brander Matthews. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 50. Full of sound, entertaining, and illuminating criticism.-Advance, C
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Harper's American Essayists (search)
Guiney. Literary and social Silhouettes. By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Studies of the stage. By Brander Matthews. Americanisms and Briticisms, with Other Essays on Other Isms. By Brander Matthews. As we go. By Charles Dudley Warner. With Illustrations. as we were saying. By Ciarles Dudley Warner. With Illustrations. From the easy Chair. By George William Curtis. from the easy Chair. Second Series. By George William Curtis. from the easy Chair. Third Series. By George William Curtis. Criticism and fiction. By William Dean Howells. from the books of Laurence Hutton. Concerning all of us. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The work of John Ruskin. By Charles Waldstein. Picture and text. By Henry James. With Illustrations. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00 each. Complete Sets, in White and Gold, $1 25 a Volume. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or will be mailed by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of the price.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
dy that was in the scratch The letters to Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd were written while she and Colonel Higginson were editing the poems of Emily Dickinson. November 12, 1890 Dear Mrs. Todd: I am distressed exceedingly to find that among E. D.'s countless letters there are poems as good as any we printed--one on the Blue Jay, one on the Humming Bird, etc. This shows we must have another volume by and by, and must include prose from her letters, often quite as marvellous as her poetry. Howells is doing missionary work in private, and that lovely child Mildred selected as her chief favorite today, in talking with me, your favorite about the two who died and talked between the tombs. February 9, 1891 Dear Mrs. Todd: . . . One thing strikes me very much in the book notices. No two critics quote the same poems. Each finds something different. That is a much surer guarantee of permanent interest than where all fasten on one or two poems. Lay this laurel on the one Too intr
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