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...sister and becomes in the end a kind of trellis for most of the blooms of the Yankee flowering. Emerson, Alcott, Channing, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau and most of the others pop up in this book with the naturalness of neighbors dropping in to borrow a copy of the Boston Transcript. Mrs. Tharp's greatest charm is "that she loves and respects her gallery of famous individualists but is never awed by them. What she has to say about them is closer to kitchen common sense than to scholarly penetration; in this portrait they are seen with their transcendentalism down...