The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866

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Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866

THE HARMONISTS

ABRAHAM DAVENPORT

LAST DAYS OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

PART II

TO-MORROW

DOCTOR JOHNS

LVIII

LIX

LX

LXI

LXII

PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS

V

THE FENIAN "IDEA."

THE CHIMNEY-CORNER FOR 1866

V

WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF BEAUTY IN DRESS

"WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF BEAUTY IN DRESS

EDWIN BOOTH

AMONG THE LAURELS

GRIFFITH GAUNT; OR, JEALOUSY

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

WHAT WILL IT COST US?

RESUMPTION

TAXES ON PRODUCTION

SPIRITS

INCOME TAX

TAXES ON GROSS RECEIPTS

PROVINCIAL COMMERCE

REVENUE LIST OF COMMISSIONERS, EXCLUDING TAXES ON INCOME AND TRANSPORTATION

MEPHISTOPHELEAN

MR. HOSEA BIGLOW'S SPEECH IN MARCH MEETING

THE ARGYMUNT

QUESTION OF MONUMENTS

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS

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It is too general an opinion, confirmed by tradition, (and quite as untrue as many traditions,) that Landor, seated securely upon his high literary pedestal, never condescended to say a good word of writers of less degree, and that the praise of greater lights was rarely on his lips. They who persist in such assertions can have read but few of his works, for none of his profession has given so much public approbation to literary men. The form of his writings enabled him to show himself more fully than is possible to most authors, and in all his many literary discussions he gave expression to honest criticism, awarding full praise in the numerous cases where it was due. Even at an age when prejudice and petulancy are apt to get the better of a man's judgment, Landor was most generous in his estimate of many young writers. I remember to have once remarked, that on one page he had praised (and not passingly) Cowper, Byron, Southey, Wordsworth, Burns, Campbell, Hemans, and Scott. In the conversation between Archdeacon Hare and Landor, the latter says: "I believe there are few, if any, who enjoy more heartily than I do the best poetry of my contemporaries, or who have commended them both in private and in public with less parsimony and reserve."

Hare. "Are you quite satisfied that you never have sought a pleasure in detecting and exposing the faults of authors, even good ones?"

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Equally important is Landor's correction of the lines

"Truly this would be a very odd species of delight. But Shakespeare never wrote such nonsense; he wrote belighted (whence our blighted), struck by lightning; a fit preparation for such bathing."

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