The world: historical and actual . th continue to be in considerabledemand, especially the former. Mr. Ileadley met apopular demand very creditably. His youngerbrother, P. C. Headley, is the author of severalhardly less well received publications. George William Curtis (1824) is a rare combina-tion of high talent. During the first half of thefifth decade of this century, ho published severalbooks which excited high hojies of a brilliant best of these was his Potiphar Papers. But heabandoned the field of book-making and devotedhimself to the writing ol brief essays on currentsubjects
The world: historical and actual . th continue to be in considerabledemand, especially the former. Mr. Ileadley met apopular demand very creditably. His youngerbrother, P. C. Headley, is the author of severalhardly less well received publications. George William Curtis (1824) is a rare combina-tion of high talent. During the first half of thefifth decade of this century, ho published severalbooks which excited high hojies of a brilliant best of these was his Potiphar Papers. But heabandoned the field of book-making and devotedhimself to the writing ol brief essays on currentsubjects and to lecturing. lie is a fascinatingspeaker and a charmiug writer. Through theEasy Chair of Harpers Monthly and the Editorialdepartment of Harpers Weekly he has wrought agreat work in educating the public mind on polit-ical, social and other subjects. Mr. Curtis has beenand is a great lever for the elevation of public sen-timent. J. G. Holland, whose sudden death in the fall ofissi was felt to be a national calamity, was one of. HOLLAND. the few writers who steadily grew in power and in 1819,he first wonrenown asthe author ofthe immense-ly popularTimothy Tit-comb few yearslater the mor-alizer devel-oped into n-poet (BitterSweet). Stilla few yearslater, and entered the list as a novelist, and won dis-tinction. His Arthur Bonmcastle was well receivedby the most critical readers and very popular withthe many. Walt Whitman is one of Americas most remark-able men of letters. The Edinburgh Review anda very considerable class of British critics, pro-nounce him our greatest poet. Many fail to see anypoetry and much indecency in his Leaves of is as defiant of rules as Carlyle. Many of hisleaves should have been left out, while some of themare very tender and will always be green. Whitmanwas born in 181J. The most widely read book ever pioduced inAmerica is Uncle Toms Cabin, by Mrs. HarrietBeecher Stowe. It was accepted as a faithful penpictur
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