The Early Years of the Saturday Club 1855 to 1870
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781417959655
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; Essays; American - General; Sociology - Urban
First sentence: IN the middle of the last century a constellation, which - as separate stars of differing magnitude, but all bright - had for twenty years been visible, at first dimly, in the New England heavens, ascending, was seen as a group, gave increasing light and cheer here and to the westward-journeying sons and daughters; reached our zenith; even began to be reported by star-gazers beyond the ocean.