[20] “James Russell Lowell,” in the _Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1892. [21] “Shakespeare Once More,” iii. 33. [22] “Chaucer,” iii. 292. [23] “Thoreau,” i. 361. [24] This was no doubt Cranch’s _Kobboltozo_. [25] “To J. B. on sending me a seven-pound trout,” _Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1866. [26] The lost copy of Donne turned up, and after Lowell’s death his daughter and Mr. Norton used it for the production of a special edition by the Grolier Club in 1895. [27] See _supra_, i. 300-302. [28] What Lowell thought of the impeachment business may be inferred from a passage in a letter written to Mr. Godkin, 20 December, 1867: “I was sorry to see you [in the _Nation_] relaxing a little about impeachment. For myself, I have seen no sufficient reason to change my old opinion of its folly. They remind me of the boy’s playing at hanging, who finds he has done it all right,--only forgotten to cut himself down. We _might_ be able to stand it, we are a wonderful people, of course, but the other lesson of standing A. J. to the end of his tether is worth ten of this. The South is as mad now as it ever will be.” [29] With a single exception, for which see _infra_, p. 122. [30] _Letters_, i. 349. [31] “Rousseau,” in _Literary Essays_, ii. 256. [32] _Letters_, i. 408. [33] After all Whittier changed his mind and gave his book the title “Among the Hills.” [34] The bookbinder who wanted the lettering for the volume. [35] Originally designed to make part of _The Nooning_. [36] George Eliot’s _The Spanish Gipsy_. [37] It was Gobright’s _Recollections_. [38] Lowell amplified this thought in his paper on Chaucer, _Literary Essays_, iii. 299, 300. [39] _Letters_, ii. 5. There was a reciprocity of feeling, if we may judge from the striking fact that on the right, within the gate which leads to the impressive common tomb of the Army of Tennessee, in New Orleans, is an inscription taken from Lowell’s poem, “On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington.” “Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.” [40] Perhaps it was on this journey that she told Mrs. Fields she never thought of her father as a poet, but just her father. [41] _Letters_, ii. 52. [42] _Letters_, ii. 35. [43] _Letters_, ii. 38. [44] See _Letters_, ii. 64-67. Also the Cambridge edition of Lowell’s poems, p. 479. [45] On Goodwin’s _Plutarch’s Morals_. [46] _Yesterdays with Authors_, published first in the _Atlantic_, where Lowell also read it, as “Our Whispering Gallery.” [47] The first volume of Forster’s _Dickens_ was published in advance of the others. [48] _Letters_, ii. pp. 81-128. [49] Mr. Norton with his family was at St. Germain, near Paris. [50] The difficulty has since been obviated by the system of sabbatical years at Harvard, with half salary.