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...otherwise, about him are bound to multiply with great rapidity. In the November Century, the death of Mr. Lowell is further commemorated by a paper of literary criticism by Mr. George E. Woodbury, the newly appointed professor of English poetry at Columbia College. Mr. Woodbury was an intimate friend of Mr. Lowell's in recent years and is therefore well fitted to write of the dead poet. Mr. Woodbury dwells especially on the simplicity of his nature, as shown in his works, beneath the diversity of his interests and the subtle refinements of his intellectual part, the unity...
...unusually valuable since an extremely interesting article on "James Russell Lowell," by Edward Everett Hale forms the principal feature of the number. Mr. Hale is eminently fitted to write of the dead poet, being, as he was, a fellow-student of Mr. Lowell in 1836-38, and an intimate friend ever since, and to one who is not familiar with Mr. Lowell's life, this article will serve as a delightful introduction. Several pages of the sketch are devoted to an account of Mr. Lowell's life at Harvard, his connections with the college papers and college societies, with lioeral...
Browsseau, W G, 184 Friend...
...Experience," "A Side Light,"- for such bright and original descriptions as "Youth," "In the Crowd," "A Face," "Broken Butterfly"- for such an able biographical paper as that on "Newman and Kingsley,"- and many other pieces delicate in fancy and execution, of which only lack of space (that never-failing friend of the newspaper critic) prevents mention...
...best piece of prose in the number is "A Study of William Morris," by P. M. Lovett. To those who are at all familiar with Mr. Morris' life and work, this paper will be of interest as a vivid and picturesque account of the friend of Swinburne and Rossetti; and to those who do not know William Morris, we would recommend a careful perusal of this excellent sketch of Mr. Lovett...