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��Lowell, Longfellow, and many other of the foremost of American authors of the last fifty years. The personnel of the house was such that it drew to itself the most brilliant and successful writers of New England and New York, and of London as well. The publishers were the intimate personal friends of their authors : the authors gladly included in

��When an eminent British author came to Boston, the first place that he cared to visit was the store of Ticknor & Fields, where perchance he might meet a group of the poets and philosophers of the ^Vest, or stumble upon a Yankee Balzac or a New-England Coleridge. They might remember that this was the shop in which appeared the first Ameri-

��their coterie the publishers, whose swift can edition of De Quincey's " Opium

Eater ; " of Tennyson's Poems (away back before the Mexi- can War) ; of Barry Cornwall's delightful essays ; of the once- famous " Rejected Addresses." The magazine business con- nected with the Ticknor house in its various forms has been of great interest and impor- tance. It began in 1859, with the purchase of the "Atlantic Monthly," which has been ed- ited by James Russell Lowell, James T. Fields, F. H. Under- wood, Howard M. Ticknor, W. D. Howells, and T. B. Aldrich. Five years later, the venerable " North - American Review," which dates from 1815, came under the Ticknor control. And in 1865 " Our Young Folks " was founded under the editorship of Howard M. Tick- nor. " Every Saturday " was

appreciation and cultivated tastes gave a weekly publication of the house, at

���THE STORE AT 124 TREMONT STREET, CORNER OF HAMIL- TON PLACE.

��them such unusual chances for success in literature and finance. With keen in- sight the Ticknor house sought out, and introduced to the American people, the choicest products of contemporary Eu- ropean letters ; and their editions of Scott, Browning, Reade, Howitt, Kings- ley, Leigh Hunt, and Barry Cornwall were followed in later years by Thack- eray, Dickens, Hughes, Bailey, Arnold, Owen Meredith, and Miss Muloch.

��first eclectic, and later a costly illus- trated paper. In 1874 the two last- named and the "Atlantic" were sold; and the " North-American " followed not long afterwards, in 1876.

Space fails to tell of the coalition of James R. Osgood & Co. and H. O. Houghton & Co., under the title of Houghton, Osgood, & Co., in 1879; of the destruction of their vast stock of books in the burning of the Cathedral

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