7. What are Holmes's views concerning the literary talent of the United States?

8. If the works of an author portray his character, how would you classify Oliver Wendell Holmes as a man?

FOR REFERENCE

"Holmes: The Autocrat and his Fellow Boarders."—Crothers.

"Authors and Friends."—Fields.

"Old Cambridge" ("National Studies in American Letters").—Higginson.

"The Poet Among the Hills."—Smith.

HOMER

(1000 B.C.)