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��the masterly novels of Hovvelis, James, Craddock, Mrs. Burnett, Cable, Edgar Fawcett, Blanche Howard, "Uncle Re- mus," and other students of the new regime. The genius of Nathaniel Haw- thorne, descending to his son Julian, is still allied with the same house which

��confided its records to the old-time publishers for Thoreau and Emerson, who have brought out their " Genius and Character of Emerson," and have in press their great work on Goethe. George Willis Cooke's and Moncure D. Conway's books about Emerson

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��welcomed its dawning nearly forty years ago, and last year published the gifted son's admirable biography of the author of "The Scarlet Letter." The same house that in 1842 published the first American edition of Tennyson's poems now issues the most sumptuous edition of his greatest work, " The Princess."

The Anthology Club and the Radical Club have passed away ; but the still more important and interesting Concord School of Philosophy endures, and has

��come from the same house, and so do Underwood's illustrated biographies of Lowell, Whittier, and Longfellow ; and the great and exhaustive memoir of Longfellow, by his brother, is now on the eve of publication by them. Another precious Concord book from the same house is the two volumes of Emerson-Carlyle Correspondence, ed- ited by Charles Eliot Norton, and en- riched this year by a hundred pages of newly found letters.

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