Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) FOUR AMERICANS * * * * * REPRINTS FROM THE YALE REVIEW [Illustration: Separator] _A Book of Yale Review Verse_ 1917 _War Poems from The Yale Review_ 1918 _War Poems from The Yale Review_ (_Second Edition_) 1919 _Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman_ 1919 * * * * * FOUR AMERICANS ROOSEVELT HAWTHORNE EMERSON WHITMAN BY HENRY A. BEERS AUTHOR OF STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE A HISTORY OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM [Illustration: Shield, scroll: LUX ET VERITAS] NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT PUBLISHED FOR THE YALE REVIEW BY THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXX COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS First published, 1919 Second printing, 1920 CONTENTS PAGE I. Roosevelt as Man of Letters 7 II. Fifty Years of Hawthorne 33 III. A Pilgrim in Concord 59 IV. A Wordlet about Whitman 85 ROOSEVELT AS MAN OF LETTERS In a club corner, just after Roosevelt's death, the question was asked whether his memory would not fade away, when the living man, with his vivid personality, had gone. But no: that personality had stamped itself too deeply on the mind of his generation to be forgotten. Too many observers have recorded their impressions; and already a dozen biographies and memoirs have appeared. Besides, he is his own recorder. He published twenty-six books, a catalogue of which any professional author might be proud; and a really wonderful feat when it is remembered that he wrote them in the intervals of an active public career as Civil Service Commissioner, Police Commissioner, member of his state legislature, Governor of New York, delegate to the National Republican Convention, Colonel of Rough Riders, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Vice-President and President of the United States.