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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
1901 American Orators and Oratory: Being a Report of Lectures delivered at Western Reserve University. The edition is limited to 500 copies. (With William J. Rolfe.) Cambridge Public Library Report. Pph. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. (In Poet-Lore, April-June.) Articles. (In Boston Evening Transcript, Insh Letters, March 29; Browning and Tennyson, April 5. Letters of Mark. (In Atlantic Monthly, April.) Wordsworthshire. (In Atlantic Monthly, July.) William James Rolfe. (In Outlook, July 22.) Literature as a Pursuit; An Address before the Harvard Ethical Society, Cambridge, Mass. (In Critic, Aug.) History in Easy Leton Evening Transcript.) 1910 (With others.) In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life. Introduction. (In Austin's Peter Rugg, the Missing Man.) William J. Rolfe. (In Emerson College Magazine, Nov.) (Ed.) Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson. (Genealogy.) Articles. (In Congregationalist and Christia
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, Note (search)
ork called Book and heart, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897, by Harper and Brothers, with whose consent the essay entitled One of Thackeray's women also is published. Leave has been obtained to reprint the papers on Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau, from Carpenter's American prose, copyrighted by the Macmillan Company, 1898. My thanks are also due to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for permission to reprint the papers on Scudder, Atkinson, and Cabot; to the proprietors of Putnam's magazine for the paper entitled Emerson's foot-note person ; to the proprietors of the New York Evening post for the article on George Bancroft from The nation ; to the editor of the Harvard graduates' magazine for the paper on Gottingen and Harvard ; and to the editors of the Outlook for the papers on Charles Eliot Norton, Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William J. Rolfe, and Old Newport days. Most of the remaining sketches appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly. T. W. H.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 22 (search)
XXI. William James Rolfe The man of one book (homo unius libri) whom St. Thomas Aquinas praised has now pretty nearly vanished from thFrancis Parkman was the most conspicuous representative, and William James Rolfe is perhaps the most noticeable successor,--a man who, upon a our public schools, and thus indirectly in our colleges. William James Rolfe, son of John and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, was born on DeRolfe, was born on December 1, 1827, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a rural city which has been the home at different times of a number of literary and public men chief avenue and ocean outlook, found attractive by all visitors. Rolfe's boyhood, however, was passed mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, whedded to the original departments of Latin, Greek, and mathematics. Rolfe's boys enjoyed the studies in English literature, but feared lest tr on Shakespeare, was one of these boys. In the summer of 1857 Mr. Rolfe was invited to take charge of the high school at Lawrence, Massac