The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . hey brought out rival edi-tions, and its issue proved the favorable literary andfinancial turning-point in the career of its , Mr. James T. Fields, of the Boston f
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . hey brought out rival edi-tions, and its issue proved the favorable literary andfinancial turning-point in the career of its , Mr. James T. Fields, of the Boston firmof Ticknor & Co., its publisher, who had counseledHawthorne to complete and issue it, had so little fore-cast of its popularity that the type was distributedas soon as 5,000 copies had been printed. But en-thusiasm over it on both sides of the water was suchthat it was at once reset and stereotyped. This book,perhaps more than any others of those coming fromhis pen, made Hawthorne one of the great authorsof his country, and of the English-speaking race. Theremoval (1850) of his family from Salem to Lenox,Mass., came about in consequence of his being oustedfrom the custom-house at Salem by a manoeuvre notinfrequently met with in political life. The two orthree years next following were his period of great-est literary activity. In them he produced five books,four of which are pronounced masterpieces in. their several ways. These are: The House of theSeven Gables, The Wonder Book (for chil-dren), The Snow Image, and Other Twice-toldTales, and the Blithedale Romance, the latterbeing published after the next family migration—this change being to West Newton, Mass., near Bos-ton. In June, 1852, he made his final transfer ofresidence in America to Concord, Mass., where hebought Mr. Bronson Alcotts house, and abouttwenty acres of land, and named his place TheWayside. Tanglewood Tales, a second volume ofWonder Stories (1853), appeared after the Lifeof Franklin Pierce (1852)—the
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