18. The society was formed four centuries and a half after the poet’s death.—Lowell.
19. The whites have too frequently set them an example of violence, by burning their villages and laying waste their slender means of subsistence, and yet they wonder that savages do not show moderation and magnanimity towards those who have left them nothing but mere existence and wretchedness.—Irving.
20. I arrived one winter morning about five o’clock, and was not so full of soul as I might have been in warmer weather.—Howells.
21. There is a gentleman with them, who somewhat resembles St. Nicholas as he appeared to the young Van Gleeks on the fifth of December.—Mrs. Dodge.
22. It took him twenty years to subdue these fierce warriors.—Lord.
23. One good, kind, story-telling, Bible-rehearsing aunt at home, with apples and gingerbread premiums, is worth all the schoolma’ams that ever stood by to see poor little fellows roast in those boy-traps called district schools.—Beecher.
24. The spectre started full jump with him.—Irving.
25. As in his tales he had endeavored to concentrate into a few strongly defined types the modern folk-life of the North, so in his dramas the same innate love of his nationality leads him to seek the typical features of his people, as they are revealed in the historic chieftains of the past.—Boyesen.
CHAPTER XXXI
INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS