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...Cambridge Tribune has published an interesting sketch of the life of Longfellow, collated from various sources, and comprising all the more notable tributes to the poet's memory that have appeared since his death. His career as student and as professor is well portrayed; the interesting letter by Rev. E. E. Hale on the subject of his connection with Harvard is given; and many pleasant anecdotes of his life in Cambridge appear here for the first time. The book is very readable...
...biographical sketch of Prof. Lowell, by F. H. Underwood, is to be followed soon by one of Longfellow, by the same author. Both are published by J. R. Osgood & Co. The last twelve books of Hayman's edition of the Odyssey have been issued recently...
...Others," which Smith, Elder & Co. publish. This does not agree well with Mr. Arnold's determination, expressed in one of his latest books, to abandon, for the future, discussions in politics and theology and devote himself to literature. There is an interesting and appreciative, if not a brilliant, sketch of Mr. Arnold, in the April Century, by Andrew Lang, and the number has, as a frontispiece, an admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface...
...profoundest grief. Although the event was not altogether unexpected, yet it came with a suddenness that was a shock to many, as indeed all death must be. "Mr. Longfellow's connection with Harvard is part of his fame and that of the college," Mr. Howells says in his sketch of Longfellow, and any account of his life "can but very briefly remind the reader of facts in the life of a poet only less known than Shakespere." It is not for us to speak of his fame and his greatness. The rounded perfection and beauty of such a life...
...Julia Ward Howe contributes a sketch of our late Chinese professor to the Critic of March 11. She affects a slight change in the order of his triplicated name, giving it as Kun Hua Ko, instead of the usual...