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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 36 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 32 4 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 20 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 18 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 14 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 14 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 0 Browse Search
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.) 10 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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 10 0 Browse Search
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and composition all give place at need, that grand blows may be struck. The mind must be kept in a continual state of expectation and surprise. From hence research, the research which engenders pretension, the pretension which leads to charlatanism. Eccentricity has become a means of attracting customers. The most eloquent, the most profound even, are not exempt from this calculation. There is intention in the procedure — there is a side taken in the so learnedly balanced antithesis of Macaulay; so there is in the artistic paradoxes of Ruskin; so there is in the insupportable jargon of Carlyle; so there is above all, in the novel." This is hard hitting, and let us confess, that the nail is often hit on the head. The critic proceeds: "The English novelists, in spite of their great talents give me always the effect of Californian miners in search of a productive vein. They do not obey a vocation, they are in search of a manner and a success. All is fall to arrive at this. We hav