Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises

Name: Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises
Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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CARLYLE’S LAUGH

AND OTHER SURPRISES

                             CARLYLE’S LAUGH
                           AND OTHER SURPRISES

                                   BY
                       THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

                             [Illustration]

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             COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

                           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

                        _Published October 1909_

NOTE

The two papers in this volume which bear the titles “A Keats Manuscript”
and “A Shelley Manuscript” are reprinted by permission from a work
called “Book and Heart,” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897,
by Harper and Brothers, with whose consent the essay entitled “One of
Thackeray’s Women” also is published. Leave has been obtained to reprint
the papers on Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau, from Carpenter’s “American
Prose,” copyrighted by the Macmillan Company, 1898. My thanks are also
due to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for permission to
reprint the papers on Scudder, Atkinson, and Cabot; to the proprietors of
“Putnam’s Magazine” for the paper entitled “Emerson’s Foot-Note Person”;
to the proprietors of the New York “Evening Post” for the article
on George Bancroft from “The Nation”; to the editor of the “Harvard
Graduates’ Magazine” for the paper on “Göttingen and Harvard”; and to the
editors of the “Outlook” for the papers on Charles Eliot Norton, Julia
Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William J. Rolfe, and “Old Newport Days.”
Most of the remaining sketches appeared originally in the “Atlantic
Monthly.”

                                                                 T. W. H.

CONTENTS

        I. CARLYLE’S LAUGH                                 1

       II. A SHELLEY MANUSCRIPT                           13

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