. Review of reviews and world's work . reader of the best bookshe could borrow, and had at length been thrilled Avitha new delight by making the acquaintance of Burnspoems. His muse had much in common v^dth that ofthe Scotch singer. At nineteen he wrote a poem thathe thrust, timidly and stealthily, under the door ofWilliam Lloyd Garrisons printing office. YoungGarrison was editing the Free Press at poem was printed, and the two young men be-came friends. WQiittiers literary talent now devel-oped rapidly, and his natural and family bias towardthe abolition movement was accentuat
. Review of reviews and world's work . reader of the best bookshe could borrow, and had at length been thrilled Avitha new delight by making the acquaintance of Burnspoems. His muse had much in common v^dth that ofthe Scotch singer. At nineteen he wrote a poem thathe thrust, timidly and stealthily, under the door ofWilliam Lloyd Garrisons printing office. YoungGarrison was editing the Free Press at poem was printed, and the two young men be-came friends. WQiittiers literary talent now devel-oped rapidly, and his natural and family bias towardthe abolition movement was accentuated by his asso- ciation vvitli the sticniious young reformer at New-1)aryi)()rt. Almost immediately he found himself launched intothe very thick of affairs as a journalist. He was notyet twenty-two years old when he wa,s called to Bos-ton to edit the Anwrican Manufacturer, a protection-ist organ which did not succeed particularly well;and in the following year, 1830, he accepted the placemade vacant in the editorship of the weekly New. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. England Review, at Hartford, Conn., when GeorgeD. Prentice went to Louisville. It was a period ofintense activity, and the young Quaker wrote poems,prose sketches, editorial arguments and all sorts ofmiscellany in a manner that made for him, forthwith,a place among the literary men of the day. But his fathers death called him back to the farmto care for the family. There he remained for severalyears, writing much, however, for various news-papers and periodicals, cultivating his poetical muse,and taking a part in local politics. He even served a 282 THE RE^/EIV OF REVIEWS. term in the State legislature. In 1836 he found itpossible to leave home, and accepted a secretaryshipof the American Anti-Slavery Society, which tookhim to Philadelphia, where he remained until 1840,and where also for some time he conducted the Penn-sylvania Freeman. WHITTIER AND THE ANTI-SLAVERY CAUSE. Strong as were his sympathies with the slaves and
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