. American lands and letters. W. W. Story. Storys at Rome, and had hobnobbed over andagain with that full-brained poet, architect, sculp-tor, talker — who had graced so many arts twashard to tell in which he was master. GeneralPierce, too, taking his post-presidential range of HAWTHORNE IN ROME. 257. The Trevi Fountain, Rome. travel, had brought his home-like presence intothe rooms where fever brooded, and into the Eomanneighborhood where the beat and bubbling of thefountain of Trevi throbbed upon the air. Brown-ing also, with his world^s-man*s tact, had wonupon the heart of Hawthorne ; and so
. American lands and letters. W. W. Story. Storys at Rome, and had hobnobbed over andagain with that full-brained poet, architect, sculp-tor, talker — who had graced so many arts twashard to tell in which he was master. GeneralPierce, too, taking his post-presidential range of HAWTHORNE IN ROME. 257. The Trevi Fountain, Rome. travel, had brought his home-like presence intothe rooms where fever brooded, and into the Eomanneighborhood where the beat and bubbling of thefountain of Trevi throbbed upon the air. Brown-ing also, with his world^s-man*s tact, had wonupon the heart of Hawthorne ; and so had thatdelicate poetess — sharer of Brownings home —who has brightened the Casa-Guidi windows forall who love Italy, or liberty, or poesy. 258 AMERICAN LANDS fir- LETTERS. There are many pleasant hours with Motley thehistorian, on a balcony which overlooks the riotand joyousness of a Roman Carnival; and in thesucceeding spring (1859) he fares away from thegreat city, through the Ehone Valley, Switzer-land, and Paris, to England. Here he devoted himself for four months tothe re-writing of his Marble Faun *—mostly at alittle watering-place on the extreme north-easternshore of Yorkshire ; he has his stay, too, at Leam-ington and Bath, and a swift whirl of theseason in London. Under date
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