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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 187 | 13 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 74 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays | 58 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 | 48 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life | 30 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations | 6 | 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.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Contents. (search)
Contents.
The close of the war13
Francis J. Child40
Longfellow55
Lowell83
C. P. Cranch113
T. G. Appleton132
Doctor Holmes142
Frank Bird and the Bird Club162
Sumner180
Chevalier Howe218
The War Governor242
The Colored Regiments262
Emerson's tribute to George L. Stearns279
Elizur W. Right286
Dr. W . T. G. Morton309
Leaves from a Roman Diary332
Centennial Contributions355
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The War Governor. (search)
The War Governor.
Sebago is one of the most beautiful of the New England lakes, and has been celebrated in Longfellow's verse for its curiously winding river between the upper and the lower portion, as well as for the Indian traditions connected with it. John A. Andrew's grandfather, like Hawthorne's father, lived in Salem and both families emigrated to Sebago, the former locating himself in the small town of Windham.
At the time when Hawthorne was sailing his little boat on the lake, at the age of fourteen, John Andrew was in his nurse's arms,--born May 31, 1818.
Like Hawthorne and Longfellow he went to Bowdoin College, but did not distinguish himself there as a scholar,--had no honors at commencement.
We are still in ignorance concerning his college life, what his interests were, and how he spent his time; but Andrew never cared much for anything which had not an immediate and practical value.
Greek and Latin, merely for their own sake as ancient languages, did not appeal t