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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Standard and popular Library books, selected from the catalogue of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (search)
, $1.50. A Journey in Brazil. Illustrated, 8vo, $5.00. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Story of a Bad Boy. Illustrated. 16mo, $r.50. Marjorie Daw and Other People. 16mo, $1.50. Prudence Palfrey. 16mo, $1.50. The Queen of Sheba. 16mo, $1.50. The Stillwater Tragedy. $1.50. Cloth of Gold and Other Poems. 16mo, $r.50. Flower and Thorn. Later poems. 16mo, $1.25. Poems. Complete. Illustrated. 8vo, $5.00. American Men of Letters. Edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Washington Irving. By Charles Dudley Warner. 16mo, $1.25. Noah Webster. By Horace E. Scudder. 16mo, $1.25. Henry D. Thoreau. By Frank B. Sanborn. 16mo, $1.25. George Ripley. By 0. B. Frothingham. 16mo, $1.25. J. Fenimore Cooper. By Prof. T. R. Lounsbury. （In Preparation.) Nathaniel Hawthorne. By James Russell Lowell. N. P. Willis. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. William Gilmore Simms. By George W. Cable. Benjamin Franklin. By T. W. Higginson. Others to be announced. A
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
some tamarinds to accompany the note. The precise object of the tamarinds I have never clearly understood, but it is pleasant to think that I was, at the age of seven months, assisted toward maturity by this benefaction from a man so eminent. Professor Andrews Norton and George Ticknor habitually gave their own writings; and I remember Dr. J. G. Palfrey's bringing to the house a new book, Hawthorne's Twice-told tales, and reading aloud A Rill from the town Pump. Once, and once only, Washington Irving came there, while visiting a nephew who had married my cousin. Margaret Fuller, a plain, precocious, overgrown girl, but already credited with unusual talents, used to visit my elder sister, and would sometimes sit on a footstool at my mother's feet, gazing up at her in admiration. A younger sister of Professor Longfellow was a frequent guest, and the young poet himself came, in the dawning of his yet undeveloped fame. My nurse was a certain Rowena Pratt, wife of Dexter Pratt, the V
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 8 (search)
they now seem, but as they appeared in their day, and we must calculate their parallax. The men who in those years were actually creating American literature — creating it anew, that is, after the earlier and already subsiding impulse given by Irving and Cooper — do not retain the same relative precedence to which they at first seemed entitled; Emerson and Hawthorne having held their own more indisputably than the rest of the group. Some who distinctly formed a part of the original Atlantic been described with exaggerated claims, and by others with a disapprobation quite as unreasonable. Time alone can decide the precise award; the essential fact is that in this movement American literature was born, or, if not born,--for certainly Irving and Cooper had preceded,--was at least set on its feet. Whether it could not have been better born is a profitless question. This group of writers was doubtless a local product; but so is every new variety of plum or pear which the gardener fi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 11 (search)
Mrs. Froude's sister, the second was Mrs. Froude herself, while it was her husband who had looked over the stairs; and I learned furthermore that they had severally decided that, whoever I was, I could not be the American gentleman who was expected at breakfast. What was their conception of an American,--what tomahawk and scalping-knife were looked for, what bearskin or bareskin, or whether it was that I had omitted the customary war-whoop, -this never was explained. Perhaps it was as in Irving's case, who thought his kind reception in England due to the fact that he used a goose-quill in his hand instead of sticking it in his hair,--a distinction which lost all its value, however, with the advent of steel pens. At any rate, my reception was as kind as possible, though my interest in Froude, being based wholly on his early book, The Nemesis of faith, was somewhat impaired by the fact that he treated that work as merely an indiscretion of boyhood, and was more interested in himself
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
., 112. Horsford, E. N., 27. Houghton, Lord, 2, 289, 294, 297. Houghton, Mr., 34. Howard, John, 5. Howe, Julia Ward, 311. Howe, S. G., 142, 148, 150, 59, 176, 215, 221, 246. Howland, Joseph, 163. Hughes, Thomas, 297. Hugo, Victor, 298, 300, 301, 302, 303, 311, 313, 321. Humboldt, Baron F. H. A. von, 272. Hunter, David, 253, 256, 261, 262. Huntin, A., 225. Hurlbert (originally Hurlbut), W. H., 107, 109, 110, III. Hutchinson, Abby, 118, Ig9. Huxley, T. H., 272, 285. Irving, Washington, 12, 170, 187, 278. Jackson, C. T., 157. Jackson, J., 33x. James, Henry, senior, 175. James, Henry, 117. Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 10. Jerrold, Blanchard, 312. Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 15. Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 005, 106. Jones, Mr., 334. Jones, Mrs., 334. Jones, Sammy, 334. Jonson, Ben, 3. Jouffroy, T. S., 86. Kansas and John Brown, 196-234. Kant, Immanuel, 105. Keats, John, 19, 67. Keene, Charles, 290. Kelley, Abby, 327. Kemp, Mr., 148, 151. Keppel, Augustus, 166.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
past manners. It is an interesting fact that Irving's first work of merit was done in precisely thominant. Everybody felt that in these stories Irving had come back to his own. The material was veriscellanies (1835) and Wolfert's Roost (1855), Irving's work was to be almost entirely in biography in the national memory, a mere great man, when Irving turned him from cold bronze to flesh and blood again. Irving's services to America in diplomacy were not small. In spite of his long absencestic then to be found in the English language. Irving did not create the legends of the Hudson, for as Mrs. Josiah Quincy tells us, writing when Irving was a little boy, the captains on the Hudson hadit of Irving hanging on one side and one of Mrs. Irving on the other. No opinion of Irving's wash over European criticism, though as stormy as Irving's was peaceful, was the career of James Fenimoon and the establishment of the new republic. Irving's first book appeared just twenty years afterw[19 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
on wisely pointed out, however, historical work is to be ranked rather with science than with literature, though it obtains, like scientific writing, additional influence when possessing also a charm of utterance. In his Life of Columbus Washington Irving had produced a narrative which has in the main stood the test of subse-Francis quent investigation, and which is Parkman. also, by virtue of his style, literature. But Irving was a literary man first, and his fame does not rest upon his wIrving was a literary man first, and his fame does not rest upon his work in history. America has, indeed, produced only one professional historian whose work is equally admirable for its accuracy and thoroughness and for its literary charm. Francis Parkman was the product of generations of New England character and cultivation. He was born in Boston, Sept. 16, 1823, and died there, Nov. 8, 1893. Before his graduation at Harvard (1844) his mind had turned toward the long conflict between the French and the English in America; and thereafter for half a century
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
In 1835, some years after his return to America, appeared Outre Mer, a book of sketches which did for the Continent what Irving, somewhat too obviously his model, had done for England. In the mean time he had been appointed to the chair of Modern Lhe period, found his themes among the American Indians and in the scenes of the yellow fever in Philadelphia. It was not Irving who invested the Hudson with romance, but the Hudson that inspired Irving. Longfellow's first book of original verse, Irving. Longfellow's first book of original verse, Voices of the night, containing such wellknown poems as the Hymn to the night, the Beleaguered City, and The Skeleton in armor, gave him immediate popularity as a poet. It was in later work, however, especially in Hiawatha, Evangeline, and The Courthat to some yearning young persons, he made the taste of knowledge sweeter, almost, than it was ever to be again. Like Irving and Longfellow and Holmes, he first turned to the law for support, and went so far as to be admitted to the bar; but he h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
charm to the Western wilds and rivers. In The pioneers Cooper made us already conscious citizens of a great nation, and took our imagination as far as the Mississippi. Lewis and Clark carried us beyond the Mississippi (1814). About 1835 Oregon expeditions were forming, and I remember when boys in New England used to peep through barn doors to admire the great wagons in which the emigrants were to travel. Then came Mrs. Kirkland's A New home, Who'll follow? （1839). Besides this we had Irving's Tour of the prairies (1835) and his Astoria the following year. The West was still a word for vast expeditions, for the picturesqueness and the uncertainty of Indian life, and not for the amenities of a civilized condition. Aspirants for literary fame were not long lacking, to be sure, but as most of their work was based upon reading rather than experience, it had nothing characteristically Western about it. Most of them turned instinctively, ere long, to the Atlantic coast for sympathy
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
o issued Urania, poem (1846); Astrcea, poem (1850); Songs in many keys (1862); Soundings from the Atlantic, essays (1863); Mechanism in thought and morals (1871); Songs of many seasons (1875); The schoolboy (1878); John Lothrop Motley, a memoir (1878); The iron gate, and other poems (1880); Pages from an old volume of life (1883); Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884); Our hundred days in Europe (1887); and Before the Curfew, and other poems (1888). Died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1894. Irving, Washington Born in New York City, April 3, 1783. At the age of sixteen he studied law, but never practiced. His first literary work, which took the form of letters, was published under the pen-name of Jonathan Oldstyle. In 1807, he issued, with others, a periodical called Salmagundi, or the whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. A history of New York, . . . By Diedrich Knickerbocker, appeared in 1809; and during the war of 1812 he wrote for the Analectic magazine. The Sketch-
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