The history and progress of the world . h-craft associations had a peculiar force for him; for oneof his forefathers, Judge Hathorne (so the name wasthen spelled), had sentenced several of the himself was a graduate of Bowdoin Collegein the same class with Longfellow. He was shy and toolacking in self-assertion. As a collegian he served theusual apprenticeship to the Muse and after graduationin 1825 he became a recluse and book-worm, writing byday and night. In 1826 he published anonymously andat his own expense a novel entitled Fanshawe in whichwe can see to-day the real Haw
The history and progress of the world . h-craft associations had a peculiar force for him; for oneof his forefathers, Judge Hathorne (so the name wasthen spelled), had sentenced several of the himself was a graduate of Bowdoin Collegein the same class with Longfellow. He was shy and toolacking in self-assertion. As a collegian he served theusual apprenticeship to the Muse and after graduationin 1825 he became a recluse and book-worm, writing byday and night. In 1826 he published anonymously andat his own expense a novel entitled Fanshawe in whichwe can see to-day the real Hawthorne but in which hiscontemporaries saw nothing. I passed the day, heafterward said of this time, in writing stories, and thenight in burning them. But some manuscripts, includ-ing several of the Twicetold Tales, were sent to SamuelGoodrich, who published them in The Token. PeterParley introduced Hawthorne to literary hack-work aswell. The first series of Twicetold Tales appeared in1837 and was reviewed in the North American by Long-. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEFrom an old daguerreotype. AMERICAN ^35 fellow with enthusiasm. These half weird but felici-tously told tales marked an epoch in American were followed by his delightful tales for childrenfrom Grandfathers Chair, in which he first treatedNew England history. Meanwhile Bancroft, the histo-rian, then collector of customs at Boston, appointed hima weigher and gauger, a place which the Whigs permittedhim to retain but two years. He also embarked in theArcadian Brook Farm experiment. T went to live inArcadia, he said, and found myself up to my chin ina barnyard. Deserting Brook Farm he married and tookthe historic gambrel-roofed home at Concord, from whenceissued the tales collected in the Mosses from an OldManse. His second series of Twicetold Tales withtheir Legends of the Province House, added a freshromantic interest to Revolutionary Boston. Almostnoiselessly his shy genius had made itself recognized asa new lit
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