Contents: A Plea for Culture, Literature as an Art, Americanism in Literature, A Letter to a Young Contributor, Ought Women to learn the Alphabet? A Charge with Prince Rupert, Mademoiselle’s Campaigns, The Puritan Minister, Fayal and the Portuguese, The Greek Goddesses, Sappho, On an Old Latin Text-book.
“All the writings of Mr. Higginson show the thorough culture of his mind, and are distinguished by a remarkably correct, clear, and finished style. Radical as he may be in the domain of speculative thought, he has a conservative veneration for the English language wholly incompatible with that looseness of expression to which the much-speaking and much-printing of these modern days have given currency, if indeed they have not cultivated a vicious taste for it. For this reason his essays have a charm beyond that which attaches to a vigorous and honest consideration of the subject in hand. He is one of the few but increasing number of Americans who are pursuing literature as an art, and one whose influence, shining through example, perhaps not less than through achievement, is doing much to strengthen hope in the future of letters in our land.”—Boston Advertiser.
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Edwin P. Whipple.
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“Mr. Whipple is widely known as a literary critic of unquestionable originality and power, lucid and exact in his perceptions, of rare acuteness and subtlety of discrimination, humanely blending justice and mercy in his decisions, with a certain catholic comprehensiveness of taste, and a racy force of expression that cannot always be accepted, as in the present case, as a sign of vigorous thought.”—New York Tribune.
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