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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.) 54 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 33 3 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 30 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 22 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.) 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 19 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 14 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 8 4 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 7 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 15: the cant of cosmopolitanism (search)
advantage that proceeds, on the whole, from those changes which make travel easier and cause the world to seem smaller. But it is well to remember how much may be done by staying at home. Hawthorne's fame still rests on his Scarlet Letter. Mr. Henry James derides Thoreau as not merely provincial, but parochial; yet that parochial life has found already three biographers in England, which is possibly two more than the lifelong transplantation of Mr. James may win for him. On the other hand, whMr. James may win for him. On the other hand, what place in the world is less truly cosmopolitan than Paris, where no native feels called upon to learn a modern language or visit a foreign country, but each Frenchman remains at home for other people to visit him and learn the language he speaks? Paul Bourget, it is to be noticed, had to place his Cosmopolis elsewhere than in Paris. And what a commentary it is upon the qualities which make for permanence that the genius of Edgar Allan Poe has so impressed itself on French literature as sti
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Harper's American Essayists (search)
uiney. 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.