Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . d inThe Token, one ofthe many annual.^of which there wasa prolific growtlin the fore-part ofthe nineteenth cen-tury. But Good-rich, the publisherof The Token,better known as Peter Parley, was for ten years so friendly toHawthorne that he deserved better thanks thanHawthorne gave him when at length they partedcompany. Yet Hawthorne might well feel himselfill-used when he received Sioo for Peter Parleys
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . d inThe Token, one ofthe many annual.^of which there wasa prolific growtlin the fore-part ofthe nineteenth cen-tury. But Good-rich, the publisherof The Token,better known as Peter Parley, was for ten years so friendly toHawthorne that he deserved better thanks thanHawthorne gave him when at length they partedcompany. Yet Hawthorne might well feel himselfill-used when he received Sioo for Peter ParleysUniversal History, and nothing additional when100,000 copies had been sold. In 1834 he foundanother vehicle for his stories, the New EnglatidMagazine, and further on the KnickerbockcrMagazine, the Democratic Revieiv, and otheronce-flourishing periodicals. If he was for agood many years the obscurest man of letters inAmerica, as he wrote in 1851, it was partly hisown fault. Written under several pseudonyms,his sketches made a slighter impression than ifthey had all gone to the credit of an acknow-ledged author. The habit of anonymity was sostrong with him that he often lapsed into it after. NATHANIEL After a Drawi a friendly hand had gently snatched away hismask. The depth of his discouragement at thistime was so great that Bridge, his best-lovedcollege mate, made a bold push to publish at hisown risk a volume of his pieces, and the firstvolume of Twice-Told Tales appeared in response was not eager, but some of thereviews were favourable, Longfellows the one mostprized. The twenty sketches, selected from a muchlarger number, represented sufiiciently the breadth of Hawthornesnarrow than threetimes as manywere added in sub-sequent volumes,a second series ofTwice- Told Talesin 1842, Mossesfrom an Old Mansein 1846, and TheSnow Image andother Tales in this time TheScarlet Letter waspublished, and theminor tales ac-quired from this asympathetic sh
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