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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
eparation and on that he was about to enter Thus tranquilly does this man of eighty-six plan his life from month to month. That year Dr. Kane and Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorers, claimed public attention. February, 1857 . .. Health is the first object, as the worthy Doctor used to say, so I take naps and gymnasium and read the fascinating Dr. Kane. I do believe Robinson Crusoe will have to give place hereafter, and that boys will keep some small edition of Dr. Kane instead of Baron Trench in their school desks. I seldom read of anything which I do not fancy I could have done myself, such is the weakness of our common nature; but here I confess myself distanced, even in fancy. On the other hand, what a dull and unprofitable book is the Letters of Daniel Webster ; no genius or power in it, or charm of any kind except the letters to his farmers, which are quite delightful. Perhaps his letters about and to his children, especially to the stareyed Julia, show more domestic