Word: complement
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Dates: during 1902-1902
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...from the various points of view of author, editor, professor and diplomatic ambassador. Recognizing the excellence of Professor Norton's "Letters of James Russell Lowell," the author, as he says in his preface, has deemed it advisable "not so much to supplement the 'Letters' with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a more formal biography." Keeping this aim in view, the author has quoted from letters only as they throw light on his subject, and does not use them as the foundation of his work. Thus though we find numerous quotations, we read a connected narrative instead...