Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forthcoming number of the Monthly contains three scrupulously written criticisms: "Harrison G. O. Blake '35, and Thoreau," by D. G. Mason 1 G.; "Macaulay as a Literary Critic," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, and "Coventry Patmore's Conception of Genius" by J. La Farge, Jr., 1901, These criticisms are all interesting and full of care and precision in composition and in style. But in this respect they suffer from a fault which mars many a Monthly contribution. They are more careful than anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting...
Noticeable in the number is a scholarly essay entitled "The Idealistic Basis of Thoreau's Genius," by Daniel Gregory Mason 1G.; "Making it Easy for Martha," a somewhat gloomy but clearly drawn story by Arthur Stanwood Pier, and "As Runs the Glass," a rather weird sketch by R. P. Bellows...
...Haskins, a well-known Boston merchant, and his wife, Rebecca-daughter of David Greene. He was graduated at Harvard in 1837, in the same class with Charles Theodore Rusell, Judge Nathaniel Holmes, Rev. John Weiss, Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Horatio Hale, Surgeon General William J. Dale and David H. Thoreau. He studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and served as preceptor of Portland Academy, Portland, Mc., in 1841-44. In 1847 he was ordained to the Episcopal ministry. He established churches in Medford, Brighton and Arlington. From 1853 to 1863 he was principal of a young ladies' school in Boston...
...Copeland went rapidly on from this point to the time when Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and less well known members of the celebrated literary group, inhabited Concord and wrote their books there. Emerson was spoken of both as the Delphic man, through whom the gods spoke to men; as the unpractical person intensely interested in practical affairs, and delighting in "people who can do things," and as the good neighbor, caring for his friends and fellow citizens, and standing up - in the words of an old woman of the village - "just as if he thought other people were as good...
...Copeland dwelt briefly on Hawthorne and Thoreau, and then gave an account of a visit to Concord a year ago. The old Manse is, to his thinking, the most impressive object in Concord, and among many things which every American would care to see, the speaker described French's bronze statue of the Minute Man, and the simply commemorated graves of Emerson and Hawthorne...