. American lands and letters. College was counted an excellent one inthose days, and a good Northeastern guardian ofthe orthodoxy, which Avas threatened at William Allen,f maker of the first good Amer-ican Biographic Dictionary, and a kindly, pious, * J. Hawthornes Biography, page 99, vol. i. t Dr. William Allen, b. 1784; d. 1868 First edition ofBiographical Dtciionary, published in 1809, while he wasAssistant Librarian at Harvard ; 2d edition, 1832 ; 3d edition(greatly enlarged), 1857. 212 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. unctuous, but not over-strong man, had gone thereas president (18
. American lands and letters. College was counted an excellent one inthose days, and a good Northeastern guardian ofthe orthodoxy, which Avas threatened at William Allen,f maker of the first good Amer-ican Biographic Dictionary, and a kindly, pious, * J. Hawthornes Biography, page 99, vol. i. t Dr. William Allen, b. 1784; d. 1868 First edition ofBiographical Dtciionary, published in 1809, while he wasAssistant Librarian at Harvard ; 2d edition, 1832 ; 3d edition(greatly enlarged), 1857. 212 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. unctuous, but not over-strong man, had gone thereas president (1830) only the year before the entryof Hawthorne. Jacob Abbott * had graduated thence in 18 2 0-— the man whoafterward openeda Way to doGood for manya zealous YoungChristian, a n dw h o brightenedhundreds of NewEngland firesideswith his beguilingchild stories aboutRollo andJonas. An-other Abbott brother f — a chiss-mate of Haw-thornes, was afterward well known for his piquantlittle histories of Kings and Queens, and for. Jacob Abbott. ?Jacob Abbott, b. 1803; d. 1879. His books counted bythe hundred; and he left sons who liave won distinction inconnection with the liar, the pulpit, and journalism. t John S. C. Abbott, b. 1805; d. 1877. HORATIO BRIDGE. 213 his very roseate-colored, but entertaining story ofNapoleon. A ruddy-cheeked young fellow from Portland— Henry Longfellow by name — was anotherclassmate of our romancer whom Ave shall againencounter; nor must we forget that bundle oftemperance, anti-slavery, and orthodox enthusi-asms, known as the Rev. George B. Cheever,*who wrote pungently of Deacon Giless Distil-lery, of a Pilgrims Wanderings, under MontBlanc, and for many a year lifted up his stridentvoice in that church of the truncated steeple,which once stood on Union Square, where nowTiffany & Co. dispense jewels of a differentorder. Yet another member of Hawthornes class wasHoratio Bridge \ — later, Commodore Bridge ofthe United States Navy — whom our romancer
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