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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
raved books and more books, but the actual purchase of one was a luxury. With a little money sent him by his Aunt Nancy, he bought Mrs. Jameson's Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies, and told his aunt, I shall write very carefully in the beginning that it was a present, so that my parishioners and friends may not think it my own extravagance, in these hard times. Certain favorite books, such as Jane Austen's novels, Scott's Pirate, and Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Mr. Higginson usually read once a year. Four years of his ministry at the Free Church had gone by when the president of the organization wrote to the clergyman's mother, that, after listening to his preaching, common sermons appear weak and stale, and our people will not go to hear them. He added that something in her son's appearance and manner called out the masses. As a matter of course the newcomer interested himself in the schools, and was placed on the school committee. R