, 1876-06-17
A Shakespeare Manual---The
Orient and Its People.
d Morse Love.Story.-.R Rudolph Virohow
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LITERATURE.

Tie remark which tho sister Of Hawthorne
once nlntle uf llIni, that no mnn ever nrcdId
less biography" Is perfectly true. From hts
works written with view Ia their publication,
and from Ills coptous Journals issi1c.l alter Ills
deceasc, the np,,recative render gains khowl-
ttigu Ut the intellectual and moral lnntl that Is
suillcing. Whoever requires other help to nil
understanding Of the AUTHORS 1d!osyuernsics, 1t
Inny be safely Hafl, IL incapable Of clcnr
md correct perception OF them. 1t Is
plum why Hawthorne desired tllnt no extended
memorial Of his life should lie written. He
was wisely confident that Ills books werc Ills
best interpreters; nt1, to whom these failed to
reveal tho essence OF lila spirit It was futilo to
attempt further explanations. While living, hc
earei,,l]y slaroulct his private history In veil
Of reserve; and lie could not t'car the thought
lint, when dcn,l, ta should t,o lifted to gfatlfy
Icurious public His wiah llas l>cen respected
The charming little sketch which his friend, Mr.
Fields, lovingly dedicated to Ills memory, md
the present very acceptable "Study." neither
OF them aspiring to the method aud complete
ncss Of rcgular biography.
Mr.. Latllrup elites ns d fnvorlng circumstance
In the task he has undertaken, Of throwing new
light OH tho gcnlus Ut Hawthorne, the fact that
be never saw tic author His intuition, aided
by research, has Lcrn his sole guide III tho
analyses OF tho works OF Hawthorne, and Of the
personality visible behind them. And II has
admirably answered, ,-truc In sight avatllng
Tor more in the conception Ut character than
any n,no,nt OF external detail. The essay will
be cordially greeted by all In sympathy with It's
subject; and from It viii be gained some fresh
communications concerning the lifu Of tho
novelist, and much genial ard competent critt-
cis,n Of his writings.
-
study Of the quaint old city Of Sa1em,-the
birthplace Of Hawthorne, aud his home for
considerable portion Of his 1ife; to a
study Of his boy,ooa and colIcge-days, Of
lis cx rcricnce ut Drouk Farm, at thr Old Mnnsc,
Ut Leno1 and Concord, and iii England md tn
ly, and In their proper sequence, Of tile tales.
essays and ronances Which wcrc produced suc-
cess!vcly during Ills litcrary career. Tie final
chapters cunsder tho personality Ut Hawthorne,
Tue likeness Of hts mental organization, to TINT
nent nj T. Of tic balance between tho loss a1Nl the
ealu which our literature lus sustained III the
devotion OF ten Of the best years OF Il1wthornc's
Ete to o1llclal duties, mud IN the solution sur
n'u,iding more than as many Years of Ills curly
it ia commonly known TINT, when Hawthorne
finished Ills course Mt Bowdoin College, l.e RI
prot1uvtea tern, led tue iio Of literary recl,,se
bhy, reserved, and pcnslye, the young nutEor
struggled IN solitude with tic hopcs and fears
that beset tho asplrant ~ 1or fune IN tho profess
tton OF letters "ihn natae!vss weeks
slipped by-each day disgusting itself
in the exnet scmblanco Gf It's fellows
llkc dle OF n!!schicyous Maskers. Hawthorne
sat tl Ills little room under clio caves, reading,
Studying, yoteelcseiy co,r'nar'ng with himself
through his own jonrnnl, or-masterctl by solnc
Wild suggestion Or mysterious specMlatlun-.
feeling Ills way through tho twilight Of
a1can's into the a9aty eia1nDsrs o.
that house. OF thought Wliose haunted
Interior mono but hilsclt ever visited.
liz had littlo communication with even thu
members of bis family. Frequently TITS n'eals
Tcrc brought ind left nt his locked door, md It
xas not often that the four in1latc. OF tho old
!Irrbcrt-strcet mnns!on met ,in falntly-elre1c.
ncncver read his stories niout' to his mothes
md sisters, as might be Imagined from the
picture which Mr.. Fields draws of tlc young
luthor rccit'ng his new productions to his
listening family; though, when they met, h.
toIetinIrs rend older literature To them 1t
Vas the crstt,i,l III this household for the
srYcsal members to relnaln very lnucIi
ks 1n,F(.