The sketches of authors at home in this book have as their special value the fact that the writer of each article was selected for the purpose by the author himself. The sketches appeared from time to time in The Critic, where they attracted particular attention by virtue of their authenticity, as well as for the names of the subjects and the writers.

The Canadian border has been crossed in the article on Prof. Goldwin Smith; but with this exception the series treats only of native American writers who make their home on this side of the Atlantic. Since these sketches were written, some of the most distinguished of the authors in the list have died, all of them meeting natural deaths, with one exception, Mr. Paul Leicester Ford.

J. L. G.

New York, June, 1902.

CONTENTS

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[Thomas Bailey Aldrich.] By William H. Bishop. [1]
[George Bancroft.] B. G. Lovejoy. [17]
[George H. Boker.] George P. Lathrop. [29]
[John Burroughs.] Roger Riordan. [39]
[George W. Cable.] J. K. Wetherill. [49]
[S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain).] Chas. Hopkins Clark. [61]
[George William Curtis.] George P. Lathrop. [73]
[Dr. Edward Eggleston.] O. C. Auringer. [83]
[Edward Everett Hale.] William Sloane Kennedy. [97]
[Joel Chandler Harris.] Erastus Brainerd. [111]
[Prof. J. A. Harrison. ] W. M. Baskervill. [125]
[Col. John Hay.] B. G. Lovejoy. [135]
[Col. T. W. Higginson.] George Willis Cooke. [147]
[Dr. O. W. Holmes.] Alice Wellington Rollins. [163]
[Julia Ward Howe.] Maude Howe. [181]
[William Dean Howells.] William H. Bishop. [193]
[Charles Godfrey Leland.] Elizabeth Robins Pennell. [211]
[James Russell Lowell.] George E. Woodberry. [227]
[Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel).] Henry H. Beers. [237]
[Francis Parkman.] Charles H. Farnham. [253]
[Prof. Goldwin Smith.] Charles G. D. Roberts. [263]
[Edmund Clarence Stedman.] Anna Bowman Dodd. [273]
[Richard Henry Stoddard.] Joseph B. Gilder. [291]
[Harriet Beecher Stowe.] Rev. Joseph H. Twichell. [313]
[Charles Dudley Warner.] Rev. Joseph H. Twichell. [323]
[Walt Whitman.] George Selwyn. [333]
[John Greenleaf Whittier.] Harriet Prescott Spofford. [343]
[Mrs. Margaret Deland.] Lucia Purdy. [355]
[F. Marion Crawford.] William Bond. [369]
[Paul Leicester Ford.] Lindsay Swift. [385]

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
ON BEACON HILL, AND ROUND IT.