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...sketch of Jeremiah Curtin, linguist and ethnologist, best known to the public as the translator of "Quo Vadis"; a brief article by Rev. E. E. Hale '39, consisting mainly of personal reminiscenses of Longfellow as a professor at Harvard; a discussion of the future of music at Harvard by E. B. Hill '94, and a review of two notable books by Harvard men. Professor Bliss Perry's "Walt Whitman" and the volume of Dean Shaler's posthumous poems entitled. "From Old Fields"--complete the list of special articles. As usual, about half the number is devoted to the various departments...
Atlantic--"Longfellow, 1807-1907," by T. B. Aldrich h.'96; "The Melodrama," by H. J. Smith p.'04; "Modern Spanish Fiction," by W. W. Comfort...
...obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary...
...editor of one of the great London weeklies said to an American traveller a few years ago: 'A stranger can hardly have an idea of how familiar many of our working people, especially women, are with Longfellow. Thousands can repeat some of his poems who have never read a line of Tennyson and probably never heard of Browning...
...count in our Harvard College Library, as I have myself done, with the aid of the most varied linguist there employed, the titles of at least 100 versions from Longfellow scattered through