[100] “A Few of Lowell’s Letters” in _The Old Rome and the New and other Studies_, p. 134. [101] The poem was not printed till April, 1858, when it appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_. [102] It was the custom when there was an unusual demand for tickets, for the lecturer, besides his Tuesday and Friday evening discourses, to repeat them on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. In those days also, applicants for tickets registered their names during a certain number of days in advance, and at the close of the registry notification was made that persons holding numbers divisible by two, three, four, or five, as the case might be (in the ratio of applicants to the number of seats in the hall), might call and receive tickets. [103] Probably the verses beginning,-- “Farewell, for the bark has her breast to the tide.” [104] “A Good Word for Winter,” in _Literary Essays_, iii. 267. [105] “Mr. Lowell as a Teacher:” _Scribner’s Magazine_, November, 1891. Included in his volume _Stelligeri_: Charles Scribner’s Sons. [106] “Address before the Modern Language Association of America.” [107] 21 August, 1857. [108] 31 August, 1857. [109] 31 December, 1857. [110] “A Few of Lowell’s Letters,” in _The Old Rome and the New, and Other Studies_, by W. J. Stillman. [111] _Literary Friends and Acquaintance_, p. 242. [112] See especially “The Subjective of It,” first printed in the _Atlantic Monthly_, and “The Philosophers’ Camp,” printed in _The Century_, and both included in _The Old Rome and the New, and Other Studies_. And more particularly see the first volume of _The Autobiography of a Journalist_. [113] It is worth noting that the year in which this sentence was written, the _Atlantic Monthly_ was, in a special contingency, edited by the Professor of English Literature at Princeton. [114] Mr. Phillips was by marriage connected with Mr. Emerson’s family. [115] Mr. J. Elliot Cabot. [116] E. E. Hale’s _James Russell Lowell and his Friends_. [117] “The New Portfolio,” January, 1885. [118] In publishing in book form _The Mortal Antipathy_, of which the first paper of “The New Portfolio” was made the Introduction, Dr. Holmes so far corrected his statement as to make it read: “I wondered somewhat when Mr. Lowell insisted upon my becoming a contributor.” [119] “He envied every daysman and drover in the tavern their manly speech.” In reprinting the paper in his volume _Society and Solitude_, Emerson corrected to “He envied every drover and lumberman.” [120] Most of this letter is given in Mr. Pickard’s _Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier_. [121] “The Origin of Didactic Poetry.” [122] I recall the sententious principle which another editor announced to me as the rule by which he was governed. “The only question I ask myself is, _must_ I take this?” [123] _Letters_, i. 288, 289. [124] There are three or four witty passages, to which this is applicable. [125] See _Letters_, i. 283, 284.