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investigations of his critics. Of his Discovery of North America (1892), a comprehensive view of the whole field of his labour made when he had advanced far in his own development, Professor Edward Gaylord Bourne said that it was the greatest contribution to the history of American geography since Humboldt's Examen. Harrisse gave a large portion of his thought to three great figures in the period of discovery, Columbus, Cabot, and Vespuccius, planning an exhaustive book on each. On the first he produced his Jean et Sebastien Cabot (1882), besides several smaller pieces; and on the second he wrote his Christophe Colombe (2 vols., 1884-85). On the third he collected a great mass of material, discussing some of the points in monographs, but death intervened before a final and exhaustive work was actually written. Like a true explorer he was ever seeking new knowledge, correcting in one voyage errors made in another. He did not hesitate to alter his views when newly discovered fac
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tt, Thomas Nelson Page, Elizabeth Akers, H. C. Bunner, Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson, Charles Edwin Markham, Edith Thomas, Percival Lowell, A. S. Hill, and Thomas A. Janvier; and it has since kept up the high quality and the diversity of material suggested by these names. Like its chief rivals it maintains an English edition. It i and two Cherokee songs of friendship, which were sung at his house in Washington, translated into French by an interpreter and rendered into English immediately, January I, 1806. American Antiquarian Society, Transactions, I, 313 (1820). From the Latin Mitchill also translated into sober English verse the third and the fifth oFolio as generally authentic. In the matter of emendations he is exceedingly cautious—too cautious to suit Lowell. Lowell's anonymous review (Atlantic monthly, Jan.-Feb., 1857) deserves to be reprinted. White's notes and commentary in general endeavour simply to put the reader face to face with Shakespeare, and his edition as
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f support from some English writers. Later a number of manuscript offerings from these men were entrusted to Charles Eliot Norton, who was returning from Europe, and were mysteriously lost en route. New Englanders afterward felt a pious thankfulness for this accident, since it helped to make more certain that the Atlantic should be distinctly American. See Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson's The early history of the Saturday Club, 1918, Chap. II. The first issue of the magazine, that for November, 1857, contained contributions from Emerson, Whittier, Lowell, C. E. Norton, J. T. Trowbridge, and others. The most notable feature was The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table, which ran as a serial in the first twelve numbers, and was followed in successive years by The Professor at the Breakfast-table and The Professor's story [Elsie Venner]. With the failure of the publishers in 1859 the Atlantic passed to Ticknor and Fields, and a little later James T. Fields, the junior member of this firm,
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ithsonian printed his Physical Observations in the Arctic Seas (Volume 15). One of the most devoted and interesting of all Arctic explorers was Charles Francis Hall. His heart was so thoroughly in the work, at first a search for Franklin, that he made three fruitful expeditions and would have continued had he not mysteriously died in full health on the last journey. The first expedition was on an ordinary whaling ship to the Eskimos, with whom he lived for two years in 1860-62. On the second trip he again lived with Eskimos in 1864-69, and on the third voyagein 1871 in the Polaris he got to 82° 11', at the Polar ocean via Smith Sound. His Narrative of the [third or Polaris] North Polar expedition (1876) was edited by C. H. Davis: the Narrative of the second Arctic expedition to Repulse Bay (1879) was edited by Prof. J. E. Nourse. That of Hall's first journey was published in 1864, the year in which he started on his second, with the title Arctic researches and life among the E
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her to explain or to express it. Long afterward, in one of his most remarkable fragments, the reality of his faith, along with the futility of his religious thinking, is wonderfully preserved. It was written in September, 1862. The previous February the death of one of his children had produced an emotional crisis. For a time he was scarcely able to discharge his official duties. This was followed by renewed interest in religion, expressing itself chiefly by constant reading of Scripture. Mackintosh, Richard Heber, Hookham Frere, Lord John Russell, and Sydney Smith. He visited the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House and the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey; again touched classical studies in a sojourn at Cambridge; and before February reached Edinburgh. Picking out, as was usual with him, a specialist to help him in his studies, he read Scotch poetry. Here he frequented the Tory circle of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, and made the acquaintance of Scott, whom he visited at Abbotsfor
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to shape a drama for Laura Keene as to re-fashion Charles Burke's version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle for presentation by Jefferson (London, Adelphi, 4 September, 1865). One would say of Boucicault, as one would claim of John Brougham, that his local influence was due to local popularity rather than to any impetus he gave to native drama. While Brougham's Po-ca-hon-tas; or, the gentle savage (Burton's Lyceum, 24 December, 1855) and his Columbus et Filibustero (Burton's Lyceum, December, 1857) exhibited the good-nature of his irony; while his dramatizations of Dickens's David Copperfield and Dombey and son were in accord with the popular taste that hailed W. E. Burton's Cap'n Cuttle —these dramatic products were exotic to the American drama, while reflecting the fashion of the American stage. Yet nothing Boucicault enjoyed better than to descant on the future of the American stage. Like Palmer, like Daly, he was continually writing about the reasons for its poverty and th
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onal standing. He found time also to work hard for the Boston Public Library, of which he was a trustee; doing for it what his friends Buckminster and Cogswell had done respectively for the Athenaeum and the Astor. Upon the third and last of his European tours, undertaken in 1856-57 for the sake of the library, he had little time for his own studies, but he was lionized—being now the author of a famous book— as never before, and moved in the most brilliant society. At home again from September, 1857, Ticknor took up once more his life of study and business, serving the library until 1866, revising the History of Spanish literature for its third and its fourth editions, maintaining a voluminous correspondence, and, after the death of Prescott in 1859, writing his Life (1864). At this time, too, Ticknor resumed his active interest in Harvard. He died in 1871. Ticknor's life, as recorded in his Life, letters and journals, is that of a great man of business, a great social talent,
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the genial depths of a flexible workman, who could find it as easy to shape a drama for Laura Keene as to re-fashion Charles Burke's version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle for presentation by Jefferson (London, Adelphi, 4 September, 1865). One would say of Boucicault, as one would claim of John Brougham, that his local influence was due to local popularity rather than to any impetus he gave to native drama. While Brougham's Po-ca-hon-tas; or, the gentle savage (Burton's Lyceum, 24 December, 1855) and his Columbus et Filibustero (Burton's Lyceum, December, 1857) exhibited the good-nature of his irony; while his dramatizations of Dickens's David Copperfield and Dombey and son were in accord with the popular taste that hailed W. E. Burton's Cap'n Cuttle —these dramatic products were exotic to the American drama, while reflecting the fashion of the American stage. Yet nothing Boucicault enjoyed better than to descant on the future of the American stage. Like Palmer, like Daly,
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and Cressida is Shakespeare's own mouthpiece. On the other hand, he anticipates the later non-idealistic school in regarding Shakespeare as intent simply on writing plays that will pay, and as having no system of dramatic art. White's text is based upon a careful examination of the Folios and Quartos, accepting the first Folio as generally authentic. In the matter of emendations he is exceedingly cautious—too cautious to suit Lowell. Lowell's anonymous review (Atlantic monthly, Jan.-Feb., 1857) deserves to be reprinted. White's notes and commentary in general endeavour simply to put the reader face to face with Shakespeare, and his edition as a whole is justly recognized as combining scholarship with attention to the needs of the general reader. The New variorum Shakespeare, edited by Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912), began appearing in 1871. Furness was a member of the Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia (established 1851 and the oldest Shakespeare society in existence);
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try. In 1738 Christopher Saur or Sower established at Germantown what is the oldest extant publishing firm in the United States. Sower won his place in publishing annals by his three editions of the Bible, in 1743, 1762, and 1776. Not until 1782 was our first Bible in English published, by Robert Aitken at Philadelphia. But even more remarkable than Sower's editions of the Bible was the issue of Van Bragt's Martyr Book by the Ephrata brethren in 1748 and 749, which, in an edition of about 1300 copies of a massive folio of 1512 pages on thick paper, was the largest book until after the Revolution. Up to 1830 German printing was carried on in some 47 places, and of these at least 31 were in Pennsylvania, while in actual output and in intellectual stirring the balance was even greater in favour of that colony than these figures would indicate. Moreover, Germantown was the first place to gain wide recognition for itself as a paper manufacturing centre. Of book publication in other
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