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and sixthly, because he wanted to. We think most of
these reasons will apply to the English Note-Books."
Of the same general purport is the following paragraph
from Putnam's Magazine: "His power of accurate

nature, his keen insight into the heart of life of all sorts, his fidelity to his own emotions, and the clear, lucid style in which he conveys what his eyes have seen, render his work about England ["Our Old Home"] perhaps the best we have. The Passages from English Note-Books,

HAWTHORNE'S ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS. These records of impressions and observations in England by Mr. Hawthorne have not merely a literary value, though in that regard they are exquisitely perfect, like all that Hawthorne wrote, but they are exceedingly interest-external, as well as internal, observation, his love of ing and important as revelations of the great author's character, his modes of thought, his profound insight. On this point an accomplished critic in the Richmond Whig remarks: "It would be worth while to read these books simply and only for the light they throw upon Hawthorne himself, apart from all interest in their subject-just published, is a continuation of the same work, or matter. We see the man in a thousand minute touches, portrayed as no other hand could do it. His shy sensitiveness, his exquisite fastidiousness, his tender, almost morbid pensiveness, his weird fancy that singles out for psychological dissection the abnormal everywhere, his beautiful, unspoiled simplicity, all appear unconsciously sketched on the pages of these Note-Books.

"As the work of our purest artist, who pursued his study of art in its fullest sense, for the alone sake of the love he bore it, these books are most valuable, and, of their class, quite unique, and possessed of a significance altogether beyond the fact of their being notes of travel. Yet, as mere tourists' sketches, they are superior to those of any tourist we know. Hawthorne's half-morbid tendencies towards the superstitious, the out of the way, found most abundant material to work upon among mossy, antique English villages, tottering ruins, and gray cathedrals. Take, for example, his description of the Rows' of Chester. After following him through them, out and in, under dripping arches and crumbling arcades, how familiar we feel with them! As much so, no doubt, as some English people who live only an evening's drive distant. So of Salisbury Cathedral and its 'cosey' closes. We had not thought it possible for us to learn anything more about the lake district; and yet through Hawthorne's eyes we saw Rydal Mount, and Ambleside, and Keswick, and Lodore, and Greta Hall, and the graves of the two poets, as we never had seen them before.

"Then, too, what charming 'bits' he gives us of English drawing-rooms! A stroke, the slightest word or incident, - -and how some celebrity stands before us! Browning's simple and honest gratification (for example) at Hawthorne's praise, Lord Houghton's dinner, - - Mr. Carlyle's old coat. "The extreme charm of Hawthorne's style is everywhere present, even in the mental undress of the daily note-book. It was not possible for him to handle the tools of his craft other than in a masterly manner, even where the work is the sketchy cartoon.

"Most heartily would we commend these books to the more cultured reader, premising, however, that even to the mere skimmer of surfaces there is abundant matter of interest.

"We believe it was Dean Stanley who said he had read Hawthorne's "Marble Faun" six times for the following respective reasons: Because it was by a celebrated author; because it was new; because it was interesting because it was so rich in art criticism; because on his visit to Rome it was the best hand-book attainable,

rather the same work in undress, where we have the impressions he received, fresh as they were set down at the time, and not as they were afterward elaborated for criticism and the public. They are, in a double sense, therefore, valuable, - as records of what he saw and heard, and as uncommon revelations of his own rare and weird spirit."

THE HOUSEHOLD DICKENS. -The issue of this new Illustrated edition of Dickens's Complete Works has just begun with the publication of Bleak House, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, and Nicholas Nickleby. These four volumes are uniform in size and style with the compact and popular Household Edition of Charles Reade, the Thackerays, and George Eliot, recently published by Fields, Osgood, & Co. Each volume contains sixteen full-page Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr., who is generally acknowledged to be one of the most successful of the numerous artists who have attempted to depict the characters of Dickens's Novels.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES SUMNER (published by Lee and Shepard, Boston). - When, a few months ago, it was announced that a complete edition of the works of Hon. Charles Sumner, revised and edited by himself, was to be published, there was a cordial indorsement of the plan by statesmen and scholars representing all departments of politics and literature. William Cullen Bryant, Francis Liebig, John G. Whittier, Caleb Cushing, George William Curtis, Henry Wilson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, James Russell Lowell, S. Austin Allibone, E. P. Whipple, and many others wrote letters in high praise of Mr. Sumner's services and the importance of an edition of his works such as was proposed. In regard to his addresses, they felt just what the Edinburgh Journal said years ago, that Mr. Sumner's efforts are "not ordinary addresses, they remind us rather of the Orations of Demosthenes, of times when men of note, endowed with the highest understanding, gave full vent to the feelings that possessed them, and stirred their country with a fervid eloquence which was all the more impressive because it related to the political circumstances in which their country was placed."

Or to quote from a letter by Edwin P. Whipple, the distinguished essayist: "Not to speak of the eminent literary merit of Mr. Sumner's speeches and addresses, they are specially valuable as having contributed in an important degree to 'make history' during the past

twenty-five years. Many of his senatorial efforts are not so much speeches as events. They have palpably advanced the cause of honesty, justice, freedom, and humanity. It is to the immense honor of Massachusetts that she has had for so long a time so noble a representative in Washington of her sentiments and ideas, -one whose abundant learning, richness, and reach of thought, and statesmanlike forethought are combined with a philanthropy so frank and a spirit so intrepid. A complete edition of the works of a statesmen so variously endowed, and who has treated so many subjects with such a masterly command of knowledge, reasoning, and eloquence, cannot fail to be widely circulated."

Mr. Sumner's works will be issued in ten elegant volumes under his direct personal supervision, and will be elegantly printed at the University Press (Welch, Bigelow, & Co.), on tinted paper, from new type, and with a beautiful portrait engraved from a photograph taken expressly for the purpose by J. W. Black. An autograph subscription edition of one thousand copies is to be first issued, and the list is rapidly being filled by the most noted men in the country. The first volume, which is now being delivered to subscribers, justifies all that has been said in praise of the enterprise, and is a model of typographical excellence and beauty. The speeches, addresses, literary contributions, and papers are arranged in chronological order, and an analytical and topical index will give completeness to the edition.

For almost a generation Mr. Sumner has been the acknowledged leader in the cause of human rights, and has been prominently identified with every important question relating to the nation's prosperity, honor, and existence; and Messrs. Lee and Shepard have a right to say, as they do, in their announcement, that "public sentiment demanded an edition like this now in press, and that longer delay in the publication would be a dereliction in duty to the country, and to the cause of human rights throughout the world."

Should any of our readers wish to have this summer a holiday from the tyranny of our commonplace lives and thoughts, and to be carried for a few royal days into the upper air of the best literature, we bid them, whether by sea, mountain, or prairie, to add to their most valued possessions by procuring and communing with the only two specimens we yet have of Lowell's prose, 'Among my Books' and Fireside Travels.'"

A writer in Putnam's Magazine remarks: "Good poets are always good critics. A great deal of knowledge of one sort or another, particularly critical knowledge, goes to the making of a poet. It is so in the case of Mr. Matthew Arnold, one of the best of living English poets; and it is so in the case of Mr. James Russell Lowell, one of the best of living American poets. Both are scholars, and both are critics, excellent in general criticism, and adWe are mirable in that which concerns their own art reminded of this last fact as regards Mr. Arnold, when we read his 'Essays in Criticism,' and we are reminded of it as regards Mr. Lowell, by his latest volume, Among my Books.'"'

HARTE'S LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, AND

OTHER SKETCHES.-The latest edition of this ex-
traordinary collection of stories contains one," Brown of
Calaveras," not included in the first edition. The volume
has attracted unusual attention from the press, for its un-
likeness and superiority to other American stories. The
Galaxy remarks: "The book is simply a series of illus-
trations of the life of the rough populations of the mines
and canvas towns and settlements of California, - a life
which is fortunate in having found so faithful a limner;
for it is surely destined to fade very soon before the inva-
Mr. Bret Harte ap-
sion of railways and civilization.
pears to have had the faculty of steeping his artistic nature
and senses in the atmosphere of this kind of life. He may

be said to have created for literature the California miner;
that is to say, he found the typical man in life, or he found
his characteristics scattered about among a variety of
men, and he created a complete artistic figure, and trans-
ferred it to literature. Very odd, original, impressive, re-
pulsive in the personage thus created, with his cool,
indomitable courage, his coarseness, his naïve indifference
to or ignorance of all laws of morality and religion, his
self-made code of honor and fair-dealing, his fitful gleams
of kindly feeling, of softness, and even of sentiment....
He has made his people, in their worst and in their best
moods, to seem lifelike and natural; and we are not dis-

LOWELL'S PROSE. - The recent publication of Professor Lowell's "Among My Books" has attracted the notice of critics to the rare and characteristic qualities of his prose. The Independent says: "To the reader of Lowell's prose we may say what Coleridge once said to a reader of the prose of Milton: 'He must be always on his duty; he is surrounded with sense.' Lowell has caught, from his deep study of the Elizabethan writers, a style of sentence long, involved, and rather cumbrous; but, like them, too, every clause, every syllable, is weight-posed to test too rigidly the composition of his artistic ed with meaning. It will not do to skip. That game of intellectual leap-frog which we learn to play in reading the newspapers, and, indeed, most modern books, we must lay aside here. There is everywhere a profusion of riches of the brain; there is constant astonishment from unexpected analogies, wide-sweeping philosophical conclusions, learned allusions, and intuitions flashing to the bottom of things.

"One of the great qualities of Lowell is, his power of putting a whole train of logical argumentation into a single image, and of carrying us to the result by the divine energy of poetic inspiration and insight. Thus, speaking of Lessing, he says: To the Germans, with their weak nerve of sentimentalism, his brave common sense is a far wholesomer tonic than the cynicism of Heine, which is, after all, only sentimentalism soured.' Into the last three words, which we have italicized, he has driven the conclusion of multitudinous debate over the mocking protagonist of the Sons of Light.

"Indeed, Mr. Lowell's power of giving us in brief phrase the results of wide studies is one which covers his pages with apothegms that are diamonds.

effects. Certain it is that he has interpreted the general life of the California mining settlements as no one else has done it that he has conquered a new region in literature; that he is a genuine humorist, with a deep suffusion of the poetic in him; and that he has given to the world a series of pictures which have as distinct and original a vitality as anything added during this generation to American art or letters."

The Morning Star says: "These sketches of life, as it was lived in California during those first years of mining, speculation, adventure, desperate struggle, and reckless conflict, are wonderfully racy, vigorous, daring, and yet they never violate good taste, even when they deal with matters that require delicate and wise treatment to escape the charge of vulgarity. They show a large acquaintance with practical life, and real appreciation of the qualities that are brought out from beneath the rough exterior that distinguishes the pioneers who lead our civ ilization westward. Mr. Harte's style is marked by qualities that render his sketches particularly attractive, and they serve to bring back with great vividness the experiences that were fading into dimness. They who know