The world: historical and actual . n admirablestory, and his Autocrat ofthe Breakfast Table is awell of wit untainted byany coarseness. Holmeshas the greatest versatil-ity of genius of any Amer-ican author. This princeof magazinists was bornin 1809. What Goetheand Schiller and theircompeers were to the courtof Weimar, are Longfel-low, Whittier, Lowell andHolmes to the literarycapital of America, Bos-ton, and its immediatevicinity. There are bril-liant and somewhat illustrious representatives ofthe younger and more active school, or set of mag-azinists, but their glory fades and pales in compar
The world: historical and actual . n admirablestory, and his Autocrat ofthe Breakfast Table is awell of wit untainted byany coarseness. Holmeshas the greatest versatil-ity of genius of any Amer-ican author. This princeof magazinists was bornin 1809. What Goetheand Schiller and theircompeers were to the courtof Weimar, are Longfel-low, Whittier, Lowell andHolmes to the literarycapital of America, Bos-ton, and its immediatevicinity. There are bril-liant and somewhat illustrious representatives ofthe younger and more active school, or set of mag-azinists, but their glory fades and pales in compar-ison with thepoets who havelifted Americanliterature fromthe dust of con-tempt and madethis country thecompanion inliterary renownof Greece, En-gland, Germanyand France. On a recentoccasion an En-glish lecturer inthis country in-quired, Whydoall American journalists try to be humorists? Ascompared with any other country American writerswith reputations to make are especially given tohumor. Some attempts in this line have met with.
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