John Greenleaf Whittier ; his life, genius, and writings . is a handsome writing-desk, litteredwith papers and letters. Upon the hearthof the Franklin stove, high andirons smile afireside welcome from their burnished brassknobs. Indeed, everything in the room isas neat and cosey as the wax cell of a honey-bee. And over all is shed the genial glowof the gentlest, tenderest nature in all theland. In the autumn of 1844 was written TheStranger in Lowell, a series of lightsketches suggested by personal style of these essays reminds one ofthat of Twice Told Tales, but it is notso pur
John Greenleaf Whittier ; his life, genius, and writings . is a handsome writing-desk, litteredwith papers and letters. Upon the hearthof the Franklin stove, high andirons smile afireside welcome from their burnished brassknobs. Indeed, everything in the room isas neat and cosey as the wax cell of a honey-bee. And over all is shed the genial glowof the gentlest, tenderest nature in all theland. In the autumn of 1844 was written TheStranger in Lowell, a series of lightsketches suggested by personal style of these essays reminds one ofthat of Twice Told Tales, but it is notso pure. The language is too florid andextravagant, and the thought is developedtoo rhetorically. The essays betray thelimitations attending the life of a is too much display of reading, andone feels pretty sure that the author hadrecently been Carlyle-bitten. In 1847 James G. Birneys anti-slaverypaper. The Philatithropist^ published inCincinnati, was merged with the NationalEra^ of Washington, D. C, with Dr. Gam- a» ow Hen § > > m CdC K. AMESBURY, 131 aliel Bailey as managing editor, and JohnG. Whittier as associate or correspondingeditor. Dr. Bailey had previously helpededit The Philanthropist. Both papers weretreated to mobocratic attacks. The £7^a be-came an important organ of the Abolitionparty in Washington. To it Mr. Whittiercontributed his Old Portraits and ModernSketches as well as other reform papers. In the same year (1847) our author pub-lished his Supernaturalism of New Eng-land. [New York and London; Wileyand Putnam.] This pleasant little volumeshows a marked advance upon Whittiersprevious prose work. In its nine chaptershe has preserved a number of oral legendsand interesting superstitions of the farmer-folk of the Merrimack region. Parts of thework have been quoted elsewhere in thisvolume. One of the chapters closes withthe following fine passage: — The witches of Father Baxter and ^theBlack Man of Cotton Mather have van-ished; belief in them
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