Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises

[319] quoted as such by leading English and German editors. He was lately engaged in a thorough revision of this edition, doing this task after he had reached the age of seventy-five. He has also edited Scott's complete poems, as well as (separately) “The Lady of the Lake” and “The lay of the last Minstrel” ; an Edition de luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another, the Cambridge Edition, in one volume. He has edited volumes of selections from Milton, Gray, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and Browning, with Mrs. Browning's “Sonnets from the Portuguese.” He is also the author of “Shakespeare the boy,” with sketches of youthful life of that period; “The Satchel guide to Europe,” published anonymously for twenty-eight years; and a book on the “Elementary study of English.” With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in the University of Pennsylvania, he has edited Macaulay's “Lays of ancient Rome.” He has published a series of elementary English classics in six volumes. He has also supervised the publication of the “New century edition de luxe” of Shakespeare in twenty-four volumes, besides writing for it a “Life of Shakespeare” which fills a volume of five hundred and fifty pages, now published separately. It is safe to say that no other American, and probably no Englishman, has rivaled