Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises / by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Language:English
Published: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
Subjects:
Authors, American.
American literature > History and criticism.
Physical Description:viii, 388 pages, 1. leaves ; 20 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Carlyle's laugh
  • A Shelley manuscript
  • A Keats manuscript
  • Massasolt, Indian chief
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Charles Brockden Brown
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Emerson's "foot-note person."--Alcott
  • George Bancroft
  • Charles Eliot Norton
  • Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Edward Everett Hale
  • A Massachusetts general, Rufus Saxton
  • One of Thackeray's women
  • John Bartlett
  • Horace Elisha Scudder
  • Edward Atkinson
  • James Elliot Cabot
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Julia Ward Howe
  • William James Rolfe
  • Göttingen and Harvard a century ago
  • Old Newport days
  • A half-century of American literature.