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The Story of Hawthorne 
 
 Do you know that delightful book of myths and fairy 
 tales, The Tanglewood Tales ^ a wonder-book for girls 
 and boys? It is all about Pandora's wonderful box, 
 the Gorgon's head, the golden touch of King Midas, 
 Jason's marvelous search for the Golden Fleece, the 
 adventures of Hercules in quest of the Golden Apples, 
 and other delightful classical myths which are nobody 
 knows how old. They are told by Eustace Bright, a. 
 young man just home from college, and a very prince 
 of story tellers. His little cousins are never tired of 
 hearing his marvelous tales. 
 
 "His stories are good to hear at night," said little 
 Cowslip, ^'because we can- dream about them asleep; 
 and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream 
 about them awake. ' ' 
 
 So you see just how truly delightful they were. 
 
 But there was really no such person as Eustace Bright. 
 He was made by the pen of a very clever writer indeed, 
 Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was himself the clever 
 student just home from college, and he told stories for 
 his own amusement to a purely imaginary group of 
 cousins, whom he called by such odd names as Primrose, 
 Periwinkle, Sweet Fern, Dandelion, Blue Eye, Clover, 
 Huckleberry, Cowslip, Squash-Blossom, Milkweed.. 
 Plantain, and Buttercup. 
 
4 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 Mr. Hawthorne wrote many other delightful stories 
 for children, some of which were included in Twice 
 Told Tales. Among these was the legend of ''The 
 Snow Image. " It is often in school readers. Perhaps 
 you may have had it in yours. Then, too, there is the 
 dear little story of "Little Daffydowndilly, " who fled 
 from the hard master, Toil. Perhaps you know it. 
 
 But if we once begin to talk about Mr, Hawthorne's 
 stories, we shall not get to the man himself. And that 
 is what we set out to talk about. His life is as interest- 
 ing as one of his own tales, and people speak of him as 
 the greatest of American Eomancers. So let us begin 
 at the beginning and learn all that we can about him. 
 
 HIS CHILDHOOD 
 
 He was born in the historic old town of Salem, Mas- 
 sachusetts, July 4, 1804. His father was a sober, silent 
 man of the sea, ' ' of an athletic and rather slender build, ' * 
 aud warm-hearted and kindly and very fond of children. 
 His mother, Elizabeth Clarke Manning, was very beauti- 
 ful and gifted, with a pure refined mind. Her husband 
 was her world. When he died suddenly, in 1808, at 
 Surinam, of yellow fever, she withdrew entirely from 
 society, and shut herself up like a hermit for the re- 
 mainder of her long life. 
 
 Little Nathaniel was only four years old when the 
 family doors closed to the world. He had a sister Eliza- 
 beth, or Ebe as he called her, two years older than him- 
 self, and a wonderful new baby sister Louisa of but a 
 few months. So he did not lack for playmates. But 
 
THE STORY OF HAVv^THORNE 5 
 
 times were often very lonely for the children. They 
 loncred to have people visit them and to go about like oth- 
 er folks. They wondered why their mother was so sad 
 and sorrowful, why she always ate her meals alone, and 
 why she often shut herself away from them for hours at a 
 time. But they loved her with all their childish hearts. 
 
 Nathaniel, perhaps, had a rather better time than his 
 sisters. Being a boy, *'he could go out in the streets, 
 play with other boys, fight with them, make friends 
 with them." (I fancy I hear some little miss saying: 
 **Why did not the girls go too V" Because in those 
 days, my dear, etiquette was rather strict for girls. 
 Only the bravest, or the most negligent of mothers, dared 
 to raise a tomboy. ) 
 
 Nathaniel is said to have been a bright, handsome 
 little fellow with golden curls, very quick-witted and 
 always able to see the funny side of things. Most of 
 his playmates found him beyond them in knowledge — 
 and in wrestling skill. He knew how to hold his own, 
 and they respected him, curls and all. 
 
 Before he could speak plainly, we are told, he used to 
 go about the house repeating certain lines from Shakes- 
 peare's Richard III, which he had heard some one read. 
 He fitted his own gestures to these and got quite a stage 
 effect. One of the lines was extremely thrilling, espe 
 cially when fired off all unexpectedly in a dark, gloomy 
 room or passageway. It was : 
 
 * ' Stand back, my lord, and let the coffin pass. ' ' 
 
 At six years of age the Pilgrim's Progress was his 
 favorite book. He loved to go over to his Grandmother 
 
6 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 Ha-wthorne's, and would sit for hours at a time in a 
 
 corner of the room, by a big window, reading about the 
 
 fortunes and adventures of Christian, with his pack of 
 
 sins, his doubting giants, and his long struggle with 
 
 Apollyon. Greatheart, too, interested him, and the 
 
 effort of Christiana and her family to join Christian held 
 
 him breathless, as it has countless of other boys and 
 
 girls. 
 
 Did he understand what he read at such an early age ? 
 
 I do not know. Neither does any one else ; for it seems 
 
 no one thought to ask him. They let him browse about 
 
 among the books and think things out for himself. He 
 
 had the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Thomson. 
 
 Small wonder that he fashioned for himself a style of 
 
 pure simple quaintness and naturalness which won the 
 
 hearts of all ! 
 
 He was so much alone that he lived in a world of 
 
 imagination. It was his delight to invent long stories 
 
 of wild and fanciful adventures, all about where he was 
 
 going and what he should do when he grew up. No 
 
 matter how wild the tale, or how far the scene of its 
 
 struggles, he would always wind up solemnly with, "And 
 
 I'm never coming back again!" His sisters said that 
 
 it made them feel as though thej^ must love and cherish 
 
 him while he stayed with them. And this they did in 
 
 full measure. Indeed, the affection which the little 
 
 family had for each other is too tender to write about. 
 
 When Hawthorne's mother died, though he was then a 
 
 middle-aged man and she old and weary with years, his 
 
 grief was almost too great to be borne. 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 7 
 
 When about nine years of age little Nathaniel met 
 with an accident which affected all his after life. He 
 was playing ball and in some way lamed his foot. He 
 was put on crutches, and for a time it was thought the 
 trouble did not amount to much. But the foot did not 
 get well. Then his mother saw that it was not growing 
 like the other one. One doctor after another was called 
 in to see the little lame boy, but he was not made well 
 for nearly three years. 
 
 He used to lie flat upon the carpet, day after day, and 
 read and study the long hours tiirough. He could not 
 go to school, but his schoolmaster, Joseph Worcester, 
 the liaan who wrote Worcester's Dictionary, was very 
 kind to him. He came to the house every day and heard 
 his lessons so that he might not fall behind in his 
 classes. 
 
 By and by Mrs. Hawthorne took her little flock to a 
 home beside Sebago Lake, in Maine, where the Manning 
 family owned a large tract of land. Here Nathaniel 
 fairly ran wild, fishing all day long, or hunting with an 
 old fowling-piece, as fancy jjleased him. Evenings and 
 rainy days were spent over Shakespeare, the Pilgrims 
 Progress, and such poetry and otlier reading as came 
 within his reach. The first book which he bought w4th 
 his own money was Spencer's Faerie Qneene. This poem 
 is an account of all the legendary kings of England down 
 to Uther, the father of King Arthur, and is filled with 
 knights and dragons and adventures of various kinds, 
 not the least of them being the tale of how St. George, 
 the Red Cross knight, s-ew the dragon. It is one of 
 
8 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 the greatest poems in the English language, but never- 
 theless it is ditMcult reading for a boy of ten years. 
 
 But Nathaniel Hawthorne was a rather unusual boy. 
 At the age of sixteen he amused himself by editing a 
 paper w^iich he called The Spectator. The first number 
 appeared August 21, 1820, neatly written in printed let- 
 ters by the editor's own hand. Five numbers more fol- 
 lowed. Here are some of the subjects which the young 
 author discussed in his paper : '*0n Solitude," ''The 
 End of the Year," "On Industry," ''On Benevolence," 
 "On Autumn," "On \Yealth," "On Hop'e, " "On 
 Courage. ' ' The last page always contained a poem from, 
 the editor's hand,^ excepting in one instance when "An 
 Address to the Sun' ' appeared, signed by one of his sis- 
 ters. In one number he apologizes that no deaths of 
 any importance have taken place in the town. Under 
 the head of Births, he gives the following news, "The 
 lady of Doctor Winthrop Brown, a son and heir. Mrs. 
 Hawthorne's cat, seven kittens. We hear that both of 
 the above ladies are in a state of convalescence. ' ' One 
 of the literary advertisements reads : — 
 
 "Blank Books made and for sale by N. Hawthorne. " 
 
 Another states that : — 
 
 "Nathaniel Hawthorne proposes to publish by sub- 
 scription a New Edition of the Miseries of Authors, to 
 which will be added a sequel, containing Facts and Ee- 
 marks drawn from his own experience. "* 
 
 *' 'Yesterdays with Authors," — Fields 
 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 COLLEGE DAYS 
 
 When Nathaniel Hawthorne was seventeen, his uncle, 
 Eobert Manning, wlio all along had kept a guardian's 
 eye on him, decided that he should go to college. So 
 he was sent to Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine. 
 
 He was a shy country youth, but he soon made his 
 classmates and the professors observe him with interest. 
 His work in Latin aroused Professor Packard to the pitch 
 of enthusiasm. He showed some of the papers to his 
 brother professors, and went about declaring that the 
 lad would one day make his mark in the world. Pro- 
 fessor Newman, of the English department was quick to 
 second him. No one could write a better composition 
 than Hawthorne. His style had a certain freshness and 
 finish which was very pleasing. The professor used to 
 carry each one home to read to his family. 
 
 On one of his vacations young Hawthorne made a 
 journey into New Hampshire with his uncle, Samuel 
 Manning. They traveled in a two-wheeled chaise and 
 met with a number of adventures, which the young man 
 faithfully set down in his letters home to his mother 
 and sisters. Some of them contained bits of powerful 
 description and spoke in themselves of the good use' to 
 which his eyes were put. Others were filled with little 
 flashes of th« quiet humor which was so much a part of 
 him. For instance, in writing about *' putting up'* at 
 Farmington over Sunday, he says : 
 
 "As we were wearied with rapid traveling, we found 
 it impossible to attend divine service, which was, of 
 
10 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 course, very grievous to us both. In the evening, how- 
 ever, I went to a Bible class, with a very polite and 
 agreeable gentleman, whora I afterwards discovered to be 
 a strolling tailor of very questionable habits. * ' * 
 
 A halt was made at the little Shaker village of Canter- 
 bury. Hawthorne was much pleased with the thrift and 
 peace of the settlement, and spoke to the Shakers about 
 becoming a member of the Society. He wrote home 
 that : " If it were not for the ridiculous ceremonies, a 
 man might do a worse thing than to join them. " Some 
 years afterward he wrote his beautiful story, * ' The Can- 
 terbury Pilgrims." You may read it in Tivice Told 
 Tales. 
 
 Hawthorne was graduated in the famous class of 1825. 
 Among his classmates were Longfellow, George B. 
 Cheever, and John S. C. Abbott. The two last named 
 studied for the clergy, and made themselves famous in 
 the pulpit and through the books and writings which 
 they published. Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne's dearest 
 friend, was also a schoolmate atBowdoin, and graduated 
 the year before him. 
 
 HAWTHORNE AND OLD SALEM 
 
 After leaving college Hawthorne buried himself for 
 years in the quiet of his mother's home, seeing no other 
 society than that of his mother and sisters for months 
 at a time. He spent the day reading all sorts of books 
 and writing wild tales, most of which he destroyed as 
 soon as he had written them. At twilight he would go 
 
 * "Yesterdays with Authors," — Fields 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 11 
 
 for a solitary ramble through the town or along the 
 seaside. 
 
 Old Salem was full of interest and mystery-, "with its 
 quaint buildings and quainter customs, with its sailors 
 and their strange superstitious stories, and with its 
 memorable 'Gallows Hill' where the witches were 
 hanged. ' ' Here and there were the gloomy mansions 
 of retired whalers and India merchants. Each sheltered 
 one or more ghosts entirely as a matter of course. 
 They pleased Hawthorne's fancy. In Mosses from an 
 Old Manse he tells us : 
 
 ** Houses of any antiquity in New England are so in- 
 variably possessed with spirits that the matter seems 
 hardly worth alluding to. Our ghost used to heave deep 
 sighs in a particular corner of the parlor, and sometimes 
 rustled paper, is if he were turning over a sermon, in 
 the long upper entry — where, nevertheless, he was in- 
 visible, in spite of the moonshine that fell through the 
 eastern window. Not improbably he wished me to edit 
 and publish a selection from a chest full of manuscript 
 discourses that stood in the garret. Once, while Hillard 
 and other friends sat talking with us in the twilight, 
 thertj came a rustling noise, as of a minister's silk gown, 
 sweeping through the very midst of the company, so 
 closely as almost to brush against the chairs. Still, 
 there was nothing visible. A yet stranger business was 
 that of a ghostly servant-maid who used to be heard in 
 the kitchen at deepest midnight grinding coffee, cooking, 
 ironing — performing, in short, all kinds of domestic 
 labor, although no traces of anything accomplished could 
 
12 
 
 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 be detected the next morniDg. Some neglected duty of 
 her servitude — some ill-starched ministerial band — dis- 
 turbed the poor damsel in her grave and kept her at 
 work without wages." 
 
 One of Hawthorne's forefathers, a certain Judge Haw- 
 
 Old Manse 
 
 thorne, in 1691, sentenced several witches to death. The 
 thought of this affected Hawthorne's imagination with 
 a pleasing horror, and he made use of it in The House 
 of Seven Gables, t He knew, too, of many families like 
 the Pyncheons who had dark blots and misfortunes in 
 their family history, which had so cursed them that they 
 had been driven into poverty and evil ways. Around 
 every corner almost was a story seeking and crying to 
 him to be told. He put many of these on paper, and 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 13 
 
 read them aloud for the entertainment of his mother and 
 sisters, as they gathered with their knitting, patchwork, 
 and crocheting about the evening lamp. 
 
 Imagine, if you please, the young man beginning in 
 a low modest tone the story of ''Edward Fane's Rose- 
 bud," or "The Seven Vagabonds, " or perchance, (O 
 tearful, happy evening !) that tender idyl of "The Gentle 
 Boy !' ' What a privilege to hear for the first time a 
 "Twice Told Tale," before it was even once told to the 
 public ! And I know with what rapture the delighted 
 little audience must have hailed the advent of every 
 fresh indication that genius, so seldom a visitant at any 
 fireside, had come down so noiselessly to bless their 
 quiet hearthstone in the sombre old town. * 
 
 So life went on for twelve years. Most men would 
 have found its slow, even course very tiresome indeed. 
 But Hawthorne enjoyed it. He was busy storing his 
 mind, training his imagination, forming his style, and, 
 in short, getting ready for his splendid literary fame of 
 later years. His first book, Fanshaive, a novel, was 
 issued at his own expense, three years after his gradua- 
 tion, in 1828, but it had little success, and copies of the 
 first edition are now very rare. From time to time dur- 
 ing his seclusion he sent a sketch or a story to the 
 Token amd the Knickerbocker Magazine; but he signed 
 various names to them, and so, though the articles at- 
 tracted some little attention, they won no fame for their 
 author, who was then, in his own words, "the obscurest 
 man of letters in America. ' ' 
 
 * "Yesterdays with Authors," — Fields 
 
14 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 Mr. Goodrich, the editor of the Token, pleased by 
 the character of the work which Hawthorne sent him 
 from time to time, asked the young man to become the 
 editor of the American 3Iagazi)ie of Useful and Enter- 
 taining Knowledge. He accepted with delight, and went 
 to Boston to begin at once. ''The magazine was printed 
 on coarse paper," says Fields, "and was illustrated by 
 engravings painful to look at. There were no contrib- 
 utors except the editor, and he wrote the whole of every 
 number. ' ' 
 
 A big undertaking ! But the work must have pleased 
 Hawthorne ; for we are told that when the firm broke 
 lip, as it soon did, and were unable to pay him the six 
 hundred dollars salary per year as agreed, he kept on 
 without pay. Moreover, he found time to write several 
 stories for the New England Magazine, the Knicherhocker, 
 and the Democratic Review. In 1837, when the Maga- 
 zine of Useful Knowledge had ceased to be, he gathered 
 iiis magazine stories and had them publisiied in book 
 form under the title of Twice Told Tales. People every- 
 where were delighted with them. The critics thought 
 that Hawthorne had a richer style, and a firmer grasp of 
 the art of fiction, than either Irving or Cooper, the prose- 
 masters of that time. Longfellow wrote him a warm 
 letter of praise, and did all that he could to bring the 
 work before the eye of the public. Edgar Allan Poe, 
 one of the best judges of literary merit of the times, 
 said that Hawthorne might easily take first rank in the 
 field of romance if he would drop allegory. 
 
 New, allegory is a style of writing in which one sub- 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 15 
 
 ject is described by another resemblicg it, the idea being 
 to teach a more or less wholesome truth by veiling it in 
 attractive dress. Short allegories are called fables or 
 parables. The Pilgrims Progress, Spencer's Faerie 
 Queene, and Swift's Tale of a Tub are examples of classic 
 allegory. These had always greatly pleased Hawthorne ; 
 hence it is not surprising that he himself should write 
 in allegory. But he used so much of it sometimes as to 
 confuse his reader, and., indeed, himself also. For fre- 
 quently when a manuscript had grown cold, he could not 
 remember why he had written as he had ; he was puzzled 
 to know his own meaning ! Thus, in a letter to his pub- 
 lisher, Fields, after revising Mosses from an Old Manse 
 for a new edition, he says : 
 
 "Upon my honor, I am not quite sure that I entirely 
 comprehend my own meaning in some of these blasted 
 allegories; but I remember that I always had a mean- 
 ing, or at least thought I had. I am a good deal 
 changed since those times ; and, to tell you the truth, 
 my past self is not very much to my taste, as I see my- 
 self in this book. Yet, certainly, there is more in it than 
 the public generally gave me credit for at the time it 
 was written."* 
 
 The words show, more than anything else, that Haw- 
 thorne understood his own fault and sought to guard 
 against it. But he could never quite follow Poe's ad- 
 vice ; he could not give up allegory altogether. 
 
 The praise which Hawthorne received for his Twice 
 Told Tales was very dear to him. It also induced him 
 * "Yesterdays with Authors," — Fields. 
 
16 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 to come shyly oufc among his fellowmen. His friend, 
 Mr. George Bancroft, the historian, then Collector of 
 the Port of Boston, appointed him weigher and guager 
 in the United States Custom House at Salem. Haw- 
 thorne received the office gratefully. To be sure, many 
 of the duties connected with it were distasteful to him, 
 but he knew this would be true of many of the bread- 
 and-butter positions, and he must have the bread and 
 butter. So he put his whole self into the work and 
 soon had the business down to a science. Certainly, no 
 public officer ever better discharged the duties of his 
 office, but it did not help him to keep his job. He was 
 a Democrat. When the Whigs swept everything before 
 them in 1849, they swept out Hawthorne. He then 
 joined Emerson and his followers at Brook Farm. But 
 he was not in sympathy with many of their plans for 
 higher living, and at last, ill and discouraged, he returned 
 to Salem. Here, his friend and publisher, Mr. Fields, 
 found him, one day, in a very desponding mood. 
 
 "My dear Hawthorne," said Fields, eagerly, ''now 
 is the very time for you to get busy and publish a book. 
 I am sure you must have written something during your 
 spare time. " 
 
 "Nonsense," answered Hawthorne, with a gloomy 
 shake of his head, "what heart could I have for writing? 
 A large part of the first edition of Twice Told Tales re- 
 mains unsold. I fear it did not please the reading pub 
 lie so well as it did the critics. ' ' 
 
 "Bat you might do better next time, " argued Fields. 
 
 "No," replied Hawthorne, bitterly. "There is no 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 17 
 
 use. I am already steeped iu m}^ own folly. Besides, 
 who would risk publishing a book for me, the most un- 
 popular writer in America?" 
 
 * ' I would, ' ' exclaimed Fields, promptly. * ' I will bring 
 out an edition of two thousand copies of anything you 
 write." 
 
 *' What madness !" cried Hawthorne, surprised, yet 
 pleased. * ' Your friendship for me gets the better of 
 your judgment. But I will not listen. I ha\e no money 
 to repay a publisher for his losses." 
 
 Fields had little time to argue the matter. He wanted 
 to go back to Boston on the next train, and the hour was 
 at hand. But he begged Hawthorne at least to show 
 him what he had written. 
 
 ''I Jaave written nothing," muttered the discouraged 
 author, gloomily. 
 
 *'Now, see here, Hawthorne, " exclaimed Fields, se- 
 verely, determined to make him own up at all costs, ''you 
 know you have. Furthermore, it is over there in that 
 closet of drawers this minute !' ' 
 
 This was a mere guess. But Mr. Fields knew that 
 lie had hit the nail on the head, from Hawthorne's start 
 of surprise, and the anxious look which he cast toward 
 the desk. But he shook his head, and Mr. Fields, per- 
 force, took his leave, after assuring Hawthorne that he 
 did not intend to leave him in peace, and would come 
 again in a few days. 
 
 Before he was half-way down the stairs Hawthorne 
 called to him to wait a moment, and came out into the 
 entry with a roll of manuscript in his hands : ' ' How in 
 
18 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 Heaven's name did you know this thing was there? As 
 you have found me out, take what I have written, and 
 tell me, after you get home and have time to read it, if 
 it is good for anything. It is either very good or very 
 bad, — -I don't know which." 
 
 On his way to Boston the publisher read the germ of 
 The Scarlet Letter. The next day he went again to the 
 little house in such an amazing state of excitement that 
 Hawthorne would not believe him really in earnest, and 
 laughed sadly at his enthusiasm. Hawthorne had in mind 
 making The Scarlet Letter one of several short stories, 
 and including them under the title of Old Time Legends. 
 Fields persuaded him to make The Scarlet Letter a book 
 by itself, and left delighted in the thought that his 
 company was to be the agent whereby a masterpiece 
 was to be given to the world. '^ 
 
 Later events proved the publisher's judgment right. 
 The book came out in 1850. People found it a powerful 
 tale, as vivid in coloring as one would expect from its 
 title. There was a tragic power, a grasp of the passions 
 of human nature, and an insight into the inmost secrets 
 of the heart, which held all spellbound. It was a mas- 
 terijiece indeed, and carved for its author a place in the 
 foremost ranks of literature of all time. You must read 
 it some day. It has for its background the somber life 
 of the early settlers of New England. This was a 
 field which had always pleased Hawthorne's fancy, 
 and he had several times dipped into it successfully. 
 
 *" Yesterdays with Authors" is autiiority for the germ of this 
 storv. 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 19 
 
 You may satisfy yourself of this fact by reading **Endi- 
 cott and the Red Cross," ''Legends of the Province 
 House," and other selections from Tivice Told Tales, 
 The author got himself into a peck of trouble, and 
 made a host of enemies, by sketching in the preface to 
 The Scarlet Letter some of the government officials who 
 had been his comrades at the Custom House. Those not 
 gored by the ox were intensely amused by his fine quiet 
 humor, and said that it rivaled Irving' s in satiric quality 
 and richness. Hawthorne used it merely as a relief to 
 the shadows of the story — "an entrance hall to the 
 magnificent edifice which he threw open to his guests." 
 He expressed to Fields a feeling that : ' 'It would be 
 funny if, seeing the further passages so dark and dis- 
 mal, they should all choose to stop there!" 
 
 HAWTHORNE'S MARRIAGE 
 
 We have been so interested in telling j'OU of Haw- 
 thorne's rise to fame that we have found no place to 
 record the most important event of his life, — his mar- 
 riage to Miss Sophia Peabody, July 9, 1842. His 
 friend says that he never would have risen to the place 
 which he did without her help. His son Julian, in his 
 story of Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, says: '^To 
 explain and describe his career without taking his mar- 
 riage to Sophia Peabody into consideration would be 
 like trying to imagine a sun without heat, or a day with- 
 out sun. Nothing seems less likely than that he would 
 have accomplished his work in literature independently 
 of her sympathy and companionship. ' ' 
 
20 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 Did she aid him in tlie composition of his books and 
 stories? No. Such a thought never entered her dainty 
 head, wise and gifted though it was. She read Latin, 
 Greek and Hebrew ; she knew history, and could do 
 excellent work in drawing, painting and sculpture. She 
 was also ready with her pen, as all her letters prove. 
 But she had no idea of making a career for herself. She 
 lived only for her husband. To plan the day so that he 
 might be saved from trouble and interruption, to cheer 
 and encourage him so that his divine inspiration mieht 
 'have full sway, this was her work, and it was a labor 
 of love. "Her husband appreciated her, but she had 
 no appreciation of herself. She only felt what a privi 
 lege it was to love and minister to such a man, and to 
 be loved by him. * * * What she gave, he re- 
 turned ; she never touched him without a response ; she 
 never called to him without an echo. ♦ v * jjig 
 wife always remained to him a sort of m.vstery of good- 
 ness and helpfulness. 
 
 Some day you must read Hawthorne's beautiful love 
 letters. They are printed in the book Nalhaniel Haio- 
 tJwrne and His Wife. In one he tells Sophie: "Nothing: 
 like our story was ever written, or e^er will be; but if 
 it could be told, methinks it would be such as the angels 
 might take delight to hear. ' ' Again he writes : ' ' You 
 are a sort of sweet, simple, gay, pathetic ballad, which 
 Nature is singing, sometimes with tears, sometimes with 
 smiles, and sometimes with intermingled smiles and 
 tears." And in still another we read: "I have met 
 with an immense misfortune. Do you sympathize from 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 21 
 
 the bottom of your heart? Would you take it upon 
 yourself, if possible ? Yes, I know you would, even 
 -without asking the nature of it ; and, truth to tell, I 
 would be selfish enough to wish that you might share it 
 with me. Now art thou all in a fever of anxiety ? Shall 
 I tell thee? No — yes; I will. I have received an in- 
 Titation to a party at General McNiel's next Friday 
 evening. Why will not people let poor persecuted me 
 alone? What possible good can it do for me to thrust 
 my coal-begrimed visage and salt-befrosted locks into 
 good society? What claim have I to be there, — a 
 Immble measurer, a subordinate Custom House officer, 
 as I am ? I cannot go ; I will not go. I intend to pass 
 that evening with you, — that is, in musing and dream- 
 ing of you ; and, moreover, considering that we love each 
 other, methinks it is an exceeding breach of etiquette 
 that you were not invited ! How strange it is, tender 
 and fragile little Sophie, that your protection should 
 iiave become absolutely necessary to such a great, rough, 
 burly, broad-shouldered personage as I ! I need your 
 support as much as you need mine." 
 
 When Hawthorne first met Miss Peabody she was an 
 invalid, and there seemed no hope that she would ever 
 be strong enough to marry. But he had great faith in 
 Love as a physician. In one of his letters we read : 
 * ' Oh, my dearest, do let our love be powerful enough to 
 make you well. I have faith that it shall make you so 
 well at heart that you cannot possibly be ill in the body. 
 Partake of my health and strength, my beloved. Are 
 they not your own, as well as mine?'* 
 
22 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 Miss Peabody believed this also with all her souL 
 She had faith, too, in a higher power. * * If God intends 
 us to marry, " she told her handsome lover, "He will 
 let me be cured ; if not, it will be a sign that it is not 
 best." 
 
 But it was to be best. How could it be otherwise 
 when all of Hawthorne' s spirit called to his sweetheart ? 
 ' ' Whenever I return to Salem, I feel how dark my life 
 would be without the light that you shed upon it, — how 
 cold, without the warmth of your love. Sitting in this 
 chamber, where my youth wasted itself in vain, I can 
 partly estimate the change that has been wrought. It 
 seems as if the better part of me had been born since 
 then. I had walked those many years in darkness, and 
 ndght so have walked through life, with only a dreamy 
 notion that there was any light in the universe, if you 
 had not kissed my eyelids and given me to see. You, 
 dearest, have always been positively happy. Not so, 
 I — I have only been miserable. Then which of us had 
 gained the most ? I, assuredly ! When a beam of 
 heavenly sunshine incorporates itself with a dark cloud, 
 is not the cloud benefited more than the sunshine? 
 Nothing at all has happened to me since I left you. It 
 puzzles me to conceive how you meet with so many more 
 events than I. You will have a volume to tell me, when 
 we meet, and you will pour your beloved voice into my 
 ears in a long stream ; at length you will pause and say, 
 * But w4iat has your life been?' and then will stupid I 
 look back upon what I call my life, for three or four 
 days past, and behold a blank ! You live ten times as 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 23 
 
 much as I, because your spirit takes so much more note 
 of things. 
 
 "I am enduring my banishment here as best I may; 
 methinks all enormous sinners should be sent on a pil- 
 grimage to Salem, and compelled to spend a length of 
 time there, proportioned to the enormity of their offences. 
 Such punishment would be suited to crimes that do not 
 quite deserve hanging, yet are too aggravated for the 
 State's Prison. Oh, naughty I! If it be a punishment, 
 I deserve to suffer a life-long infliction of it, were it only 
 for slandering my native town so vilely ! But any place 
 is strange and lonesome to me where you are not; and 
 where you are, any place will be home. I ought to love 
 Salem better than I do ; for the people have always had 
 a pretty generous faith in me, ever since they knew me 
 at all. I fear I must be undeserving of their praise, else 
 I should never get it. What an ungrateful blockhead 
 ami!"- 
 
 Hawthorne was thirty-eight and his wife thirty-two 
 years old when they married. They began housekeeping 
 in the ' ' Old Manse' ' at Concord. They had the Emersons, 
 the Alcotts, Ellery Channing and his beautiful young 
 wife, Margaret Fuller, and David Thoreau as neighbors. 
 Here they spent three delightful years. We get glimpses 
 of them in Hawthorne's JVo^e Books, in Mosses from an 
 Old Manse, and in Julian Hawthorne's delightful record 
 of his father and mother. Both Mr. and Mrs. Haw- 
 thorne kept a journal in which they wrote the little hap- 
 penings of their daily life and such thoughts and fancies 
 as pleased them. 
 
 * "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife.' 
 
24 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 In Hawthorne's journal we read : ''Methinks my little 
 wife is twin sister to the spring ; so they should greet 
 one another tenderly^ — for they are both fresh and dewy, 
 both full of hope and cheerfulness ; both have bird- 
 voices, always singing out their hearts ; both are some- 
 times overcast with flitting mists, which only make the 
 flowers bloom brighter; and both have power to renew 
 and recreate the weary spirit. I have married the 
 Spring! I am husband to the month of May !" 
 
 Mrs. Hawthorne's letters to her mother also contain 
 many delightful glimpses of the life. Her son Julian 
 calls them "A History of Happiness." Here is a lovely 
 little picture from one written April 20, 1843o *' Sun- 
 day afternoon the birds were sweetly mad, and the lovely 
 rage of song drove them hither and thither, and swelled 
 their breasts amain. It was nothing less than a tornado 
 of fine music. I kept saying, 'Yes, yes, yes, I know, 
 dear little maniacs ! I know there never was such an 
 air, such a day, such a sky, such a God ! I know it, — 
 I know it !' But they would not be pacified. Their 
 throats must have been made of fine gold, or they would 
 have been rent by such rapture quakes. 
 
 Another letter shows that Mr. Hawthorne was not to 
 be won entirely from his hermit habits, and that his 
 wise little wife was more than content that it should be 
 so: "Mr. Hawthorne's abomination of visiting still 
 holds strong, be it to see no matter what angel. But 
 he is very hospitable, and receives strangers with great 
 loveliness and graciousness. Mr. Emerson says his 
 way is regal, like a prince or general, even when at 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 25 
 
 table he hands the bread. Elizabeth Hoar remarked 
 that though his shyness was very evident, yet she liked 
 his manner, because he always faced the occasion like a 
 man, when it came to the jjoint. Of what moment will 
 it be, a thousand years hence, whether he saw this or 
 that person ? If he had the gift of speech like some 
 others — Mr. Emerson, for instance — it would be dif- 
 ferent, but he was not born to mix in general 
 society. '^' '^'' ''' 
 
 "He loves power as little as any mortal I ever knew ; 
 and it is nev(r a question of private will between us, 
 but of absolute right. '•' '" * His will is strong, but 
 not to govern others. He is so simple, so just, so tender, 
 that my highest instinct could only correspond with his 
 will. I never knew such delicacy of nature. '^' '^ * 
 Was ever such a union of power and gentleness, softness 
 and spirit, X)assion and reason? I think it must be 
 partly smiles of angels that make the air and light so 
 pledsant here. My dearest Love waits upon God like a 
 child. "^ 
 
 Hawthorne's first child, Una, was born in the "Old 
 Manse," March 1, 1844. She was a lovely little baby, 
 and you will like to read some time the dear little things 
 which Mamma Sophia wrote to her own adored mother. 
 Here is a sample: "She smiles and smiles and smiles, 
 and makes grave remarks in a dovelike voice. Her 
 lashes are longer every morning, and bid fair to be, as 
 Cornelia said Mr. Hawthorne's were, *a mile long and 
 curled up at the end. ' Her mouth is sweetly curved, 
 
 ♦"Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife.'* 
 
26 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 and, as Mary the cook prettily says, 'it lias so many 
 lovely stirs in it. ' 
 
 When Una was two years old baby Julian was added 
 to the household. He was born in Boston, v/here the 
 family spent the summer and autumn. They returned 
 finally to Salem and the house in Mall Street where Tlte 
 Scarlet Letter, The Snoiu Lnage, The Great Stone Face, 
 etc., were written. Hawthorne's journal at this time is 
 filled with the sayings and doings of little Julian and 
 Una. For their nursery was his study these days and 
 he was the nurse-maid, while his wife stayed most of 
 the time in an upstairs room, looking after his mother, 
 Madame Hawthorne, who was ill unto death and suffer- 
 ing greatly. It was a time of great stress and poverty. 
 Hawthorne had lost his work at the Custom House, and 
 the family were dependent entirely upon his pen — a 
 poor staff in those days of poorly paid authors, brilliant 
 and flowing with ready grace though it was. 
 
 But ''behind the clouds is the sun still shining." 
 Grandma went "home to God," and perhaps she made 
 special pleading for Nathaniel and his dear wife. At 
 any rate the affairs of the Hawthornes began to mend. 
 A check for one hundred dollars came from the pub- 
 lishers of a certain magazine who had used a number of 
 Hawthorne's stories; his friend, George Hillard, know- 
 ing something of his struggles, circulated a subscription 
 in his behalf and collected quite a sum of money which 
 he sent to him wifh a warm letter entreating him not to 
 give up heart ; and Fields, the publisher, came down 
 upon him to get a book manuscript. John Greenleaf 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 27 
 
 Whittier, too, wrote him a hearty letter from Amesbury, 
 and enclosed a check for *4hy admirable story in the 
 Era,''' a magazine with which he (Whittier) was 
 connected. 
 
 With the appearance of The Scarlet Letter and fame, 
 poverty lost its firm hold upon the little family. They 
 slipped away to Lennox, in the Berkshire Hills, to re- 
 cover. Their home here was a little old red house, 
 more roomy than one would have supposed who saw 
 only the outside, and it commanded a fine view of moun- 
 tain, lake, and valley, which made up for everything. 
 *' Attached to it, moreover," says Julian Hawthorne, 
 *Svas a large two-storied hencoop, populous with hens — 
 an inexhaustible resource to the children. The hens all 
 had their proper names, and were tamer than the pig 
 in an Irish cabin. There were cows in the neighboring 
 farmyard ; and a barn with a hay-loft, which trenched 
 very closely upon the delights of Paradise. Then, there 
 was the long declivity toward Tanglewood and the lake ; 
 and in winter Hawthorne and the children used to seat 
 themselves one behind another upon the big sled, and 
 go down in headlong career through the snow-drifts, — 
 as is related, in the Wonder Boole, of Eustace Bright 
 and his little people. Even the incident of the stump 
 hidden beneath the snow actually happened, precisely 
 as set down in the book, as well as many other humorous 
 and delightful episodes. ' ' 
 
 Here Hawthorne wrote The House oj Seven Gables. 
 And here, too, Eose, the third and last child was born. 
 Concerning her, the father wrote to his sister Louisa : 
 
28 
 
 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 * ' The baby flourishes, and seems to be the brightest and 
 strongest baby we have had. She grows prettier, but 
 cannot be called absolutely beautiful. Her hair, I think, 
 is a more decided red than Una's." 
 
 Then Mr. Hawthorne bought ' 'The V/ayside, ' ' the old 
 home of the Alcotts. It was a lovely place, on the edge 
 
 The Wayside 
 
 of Sleepy Hollow, about two miles from the old ' 'Manse' ' 
 where the Hawthornes had been so happy, and here 
 they settled down to enjoy life in a neighborhood al- 
 ready hallowed by pleasant association. In the midst 
 of their joy came the terrible news of the loss of Mr. 
 Hawthorne's sister Louisa, in the burning of the ship 
 ** Henry Clay," on the Hudson. She jumped into the 
 water, preferring to be drowned rather than to be burned. 
 Her body was washed ashore some days later. It was, 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 29 
 
 a cruel blow to the Hawthornes ; all the more so be- 
 cause they had made great plans for her to give them 
 a long visit, and perhaps to make her home with them 
 henceforward. 
 
 Hawthorne roused from his sorrow to write his de- 
 lightful book Tangleivood Tales, containing the six 
 myths, the Minotaur, the Golden Fleece, the Pygmies, 
 the Dragon's Teeth, Circe's Palace, and the Pomegran- 
 ate Seed. I hope you have read them all. 
 
 His next work was a labor of love. It was the writ- 
 ing of the Life of Franklin Fierce. The two had been 
 the warmest friends since their college days. Pierce 
 was now about to enter the race for the presidency, and 
 Hawthorne was glad to do what he could to help him. 
 He knew, of course, that people would say that he did 
 it for the reward of an office later. But he did not care 
 what T^eople thought so long as he knew that his own 
 motives were pure. He wrote the book very carefully 
 and painstakingly, putting in not a word, according to 
 his wife, "which he did not know to be true in spirit 
 and in letter." Pierce's enemies called the work Haw- 
 thorne's "New Komance, " and were loud in "I told 
 you sos!" when President Pierce appointed him 
 United States Consul to Liverpool. 
 
 The Hawthornes sailed for England in the latter part 
 of June, 1853. They had longed for a tour abroad for 
 years, and the trip promised vistas of delight. The 
 four years in Liverpool, with little journeys here and 
 there over the kingdom, were joyous and happy, and 
 Mr. Hawthorne made an ideal consul. But we have 
 
30 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 not space to tell about it here. Then followed three 
 years on the continent, most of which were spent in 
 Italy. During this time Hawthorne was gathering ma- 
 terial for his great allegory. The Marble Faun, It was 
 published in 1860, and the Hawthornes returned to * 'The 
 Wayside. ' ' Here Mr. Hawthorne busied himself in im- 
 proving the place, and in writing essays and stories for 
 the magazines, and two or three book manuscripts. 
 
 His health was much broken, and he was not able to 
 confine himself to anything long. He died suddenly, at 
 Plymouth, New Hampshire, May 18, 1864, while travel- 
 ing with his friend. Ex-president Pierce. He was buried 
 in the Concord cemetery, near where Emerson and- 
 Thoreau now rest. Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, 
 and Lowell attended the funeral. His publisher, Mr. 
 Fields, also was present, and wrote : ' ' We carried him 
 through the blossoming orchards of Concord, and laid 
 him down in a group of piues on the hillside, the un- 
 finished romance which had cost him such anxiety laid 
 upon his coffin. ' ' Longfellow was much touched by the 
 funeral service and the sight of the unfinished manuscript 
 upon which his friend had spent so much time. On 
 his return home he wrote an exquisite poem describing 
 the scene, and referring in the closing lines to the 
 uncompleted romance: 
 
 Ah, who shall lift that wand of magic power. 
 
 And the lost clue regain ? 
 The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower 
 
 Unfinished must remain. 
 
THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 31 
 
 Mrs. HAvvfchorna died seven years later in London. 
 She sleeps in the Kensal Green cemetery. By her side 
 lies Una, the dearly loved daughter, who followed her 
 within six years. Eose married the publisher, G. P. 
 Lathrop and, like her brother Julian, is a well-known 
 writer. The Hawthorne lot in the Sleepy Hollow ceme- 
 tery is outlined by a hedge of arbor vitae. A simple 
 headstone with the one word '* Hawthorne" marks his 
 grave. Beside him rest his two grandchildren, Gladys 
 Hawthorne and Francis Hawthorne Lathrop. 
 
 The story is told that when Hawthorne was a young 
 man in college, an old gypsy chanced one day to meet 
 him in the lane. She put her hand above her eyes and 
 queried hastily, "Are you a man or an angel?" All his 
 life Hawthorne was singularly handsome. He had a 
 strong physical frame and a tall stature. He had broad 
 shoulders, a deep chest, and a massive head. His gray- 
 blue eyes were large and lustrous. His hair was dark 
 brown, and of remarkable fineness ; his skin delicate, 
 giving unusual softness to his complexion. 
 
 His son Julian tells us that: ''He was a tireless 
 walker, and of great bodily activity ; up to the time he 
 was forty years old, he could clear a height of five feet 
 at a standing jump. His voice, which- was low and deep 
 in ordinary conversation, had astounding volume when 
 he chose to give full. vent to it; with such a voice, and 
 such eyes and presence, he might have quelled a crew 
 of mutinous privateersmen at least as effectively as Bold 
 Daniel, his grandfather : it was not a bellow, but had 
 the searching and electrifying quality of the blast of a 
 
32 THE STORY OF HAWTHORNE 
 
 trumpet." Hawthorne had a rather roving disposition. 
 He never liked to stop long in one place. He laughingly 
 said that it was a heritage from this same Bold Daniel, 
 who was a peer among seamen. 
 
 WHAT OTHEKS THOUGHT OF HAWTHOENE 
 
 "His style is as clear as the running waters are." 
 
 — Longfelloio 
 
 ' ' There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare 
 That you hardly at first see the strength that is "there ; 
 A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, 
 So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet. 
 Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet." 
 
 — Lowell: "A Fable for Critics'" 
 
 "In Hawthorne's books, to be sure, are the pro- 
 foundest sin, the deepest vail of misery and mystery, 
 the infinite gloom of which Mrs. Hawthorne wrote ; but 
 always above them the tremendous truth written with 
 characters of fire, and yet 'with divine touches of beauty, ' 
 with many a picture of artlessly lovely nature and life, 
 and with the tender spirit of a child pervading the 
 whole. ' ' — Richardson 
 
INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES - Continued. 
 
 History and Biography 
 
 5 Story of J^inco\n—/?eiier 
 56 Indian Children Tales— Bush 
 '79 Alyittle New England Yi'king— Baker 
 
 81 Story of jyeSoto- Ha t_fie Id 
 
 82 Story of Daniel Boone — Reiter 
 
 83 Story of Printing-— i1/cCa^^ 
 
 84 Story of David Crockett— /?^27<?r 
 
 85 Story of Patrick Henry— Li ttlejield 
 
 86 American Inventors— I (Whitney and 
 
 Fulton) — Farjs 
 
 87 American Inventors- II (Morse and Edi- 
 
 son)— i^ar/j 
 
 88 American Naval Heroes (Jones, Perry, 
 
 Farragitt) — Bush 
 
 89 Fremont and Kit Carson— J 71 dd 
 
 178 Story of Lexington and Bunker Hill. 
 
 182 Story of Joan of Arc — McFee 
 Literature 
 
 90 Selections from Longfellow — I 
 
 91 Story of Eugene Field — McCabe 
 
 195 Night befoi-e Christmas and Other 
 Christmas Poems and Stories. 
 
 201 Alice's First Adventures in Wonder- 
 
 land — Carroll 
 
 202 Alice's Further Adventures in Wonder- 
 
 land — Carroll 
 207 Famous Artists II— Reynolds— Murillo 
 III Water Babies (Abridged) — Kingslcy 
 35 Goody Two-Shoes 
 103 Stories from the Old Testament— il/c/v'*^ 
 
 FIFTH YEAR 
 Nature 
 
 92 Animal Life in the Sea — McFee 
 
 93 Story of Silk — Brown 
 
 94 Story of Sugar — Reiter 
 
 96 What We.Drink (Tea, Coffee and Cocoa) 
 139 Peeps into Bird Nooks, W— McFee 
 
 210 Snowdrops and Crocuses — Mann 
 
 History and Biography 
 16 Explorations of the Northwest 
 80 Story of the Cabots— .1/<:7?r/<:/<? 
 
 97 Story of the Norsemen — Hanson 
 
 98 Story of Nathan YLaXe— McCabe 
 
 99 Story of Jefferson — McCabe 
 100 Story of B j'ant — McFee 
 
 loi Story of Robert E. 'Lee—McKane 
 
 105 Story of Canada— Z'o^.e^/a^ 
 
 106 Story of Mexico — McCabe 
 
 107 Story of Robert LoiiisStevenson — Bush 
 141 Story of Grant — McKane 
 
 144 Story of Steam — McCabe 
 
 145 Story of McKinley — McBride 
 
 179 Story of the Flag — Baker 
 
 190 Story of Father Hennepin— il/c^/trf^? 
 
 191 Story of LaSalle — McBride 
 
 185 Story of the First Crusade— 71/^arf 
 
 217 Story of Florence Nightingale — McFee 
 
 218 Story of Peter Q.oo-per— McFee 
 lie Story of Hawthorne— il/c-F^^ 
 232 Story of Shakespeare 
 
 Literature 
 
 8 King of the Golden River — Ruskin 
 
 9 The Golden Touch — Hawthorne 
 
 108 History in Verse (Sheridan's Ride, In- 
 
 dependence Bell, etc.) 
 
 180 Storyof Aladdin and of Ali Baba — Lewis 
 
 183 A Dog of Flanders— Z>^ la Raviee 
 
 184 The Nuruberg Stoxe—De la Ramce 
 1S6 Heroes from King Arthur — Grames 
 194 Whittier's Poems. Selected. 
 
 199 Jackanapes — Eiving 
 
 200 The Child of Urbino — De la Ramee 
 
 208 Heroes of Asgard — Selections — Keary 
 212 Stories from Robin Hood — Bush 
 
 234 Poems Worth Knowing — Book II— Inter- 
 mediate 
 
 SIXTH YEAR 
 Nature 
 109 Gifts of the Forest (Rubber, Cinchona, 
 
 Resin, eX.c.)—McFce 
 Geography 
 
 114 Great European Cities— I (London and 
 
 Paris) — Bush 
 
 115 Great European Cities— II (Rome and 
 
 Berlin)— ^z/jA 
 
 168 Great European Cities— III (St. Peters- 
 burg and Constauiiuople) — Bush 
 
 History and Biography 
 
 116 Old English Heroes (Alfred, Richard the 
 
 Lion-Heaited, The Black Prince) 
 
 117 Later English Heroes (Cromwell, Well- 
 
 ington, Gladstone) — Bush 
 
 160 Heroes of the Revolution — Tristram 
 163 Stories of Courage — Bush 
 
 187 Lives of Webster and Q.\ay — Tiistram 
 
 188 Story of Napoleon- ^«5A 
 
 189 Stories of Heroism — Bush 
 
 197 Story of Lafayette — Bush 
 
 198 Story of Roger Williams — Leightou 
 
 209 Lewis and Clark Expedition— //^^wrfow 
 219 Story of Iowa — McFee 
 
 224 Story of William Tell — Hallock 
 Literature 
 
 10 The Snow Image — Hawthorne 
 
 11 Rip Van Winkle— y/z^zV/^ 
 
 12 Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Irving 
 22 Rab and His Friends — Brojvn 
 
 24 Three Golden Apples — Hawthorne 
 
 25 The Miraculous Viicher— Hawthorne 
 
 26 The Minotaur — Hawthorne 
 
 119 Bryant's Thanatopsis and Other Poems 
 
 120 Selections from Longfellow— II 
 
 121 Selections from Holmes 
 
 122 The Pied Piper of YLavaeWn— Browning 
 
 161 The Great Carbuncle, Mr. Higgin- 
 
 botham's Catastrophe, Suowflakes — 
 Hawthorne 
 
 162 The V\^\\\\e^— Hawthorne 
 
 222 Kings'ley's Greek Heroes— Part I. The 
 
 Story of Perseus 
 
 223 Kingsley's Greek Heroes— Part II. The 
 
 Story of Theseus 
 
 225 Tennyson's Poems — For various grades 
 229 Responsive Bible Readings — Zellcr 
 
 SEVENTH YEAR 
 Literature 
 
 13 Courtship of Miles Standish 
 
 14 Evangeline — Longfellow 
 
 15 Snow Bound— IVhittier 
 
 20 The Great Stone 'Pace^Hawthorne 
 
 123 Selections from Wordsworth 
 
 124 Selections from Shelley and Keats 
 
 125 Selections from Merchant of Venice 
 147 Story of King Arthur as told by Tenny- 
 
 son— Hallock 
 
 Continued on next page 
 
INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SEKIES-Continued 
 
 149 Man Without a Country, The — Hale 
 
 192 Story of Jean Valjean. 
 
 193 Selections from the Sketch Book. 
 196 The Gray Champion — Hawthorne 
 213 Poems of Thomas Moore— Selected 
 
 216 I^amb's Tales from Shakespeare— Select- 
 ed 
 
 231 The Oregon Trail(Condensed from Park- 
 man) 
 
 238 lyamb's Adventures of Ulysses — Part I 
 
 239 lyamb's Adventures of Ulysses — Part II 
 
 EIGHTH YEAR 
 Literature 
 
 17 Enoch Arden — Tennyson 
 
 18 Vision of Sir Launfal — Lowell 
 
 19 Cotter's Saturday Night— ^«»-n* 
 23 The Deserted Village— G"o/rfj»«/7A 
 
 126 Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
 
 127 Gray's Elegy and Other Poems 
 
 128 Speeches of Lincoln 
 
 129 Selections from Julius Caesar 
 
 130 Selections from Henry the Eighth 
 
 142 Scott's Lady of the Lake— Canto I 
 
 154 Scott's Lady of the Lake— Canto II 
 
 143 Building of the Ship and Other Poems- 
 Longfellow 
 
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