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Carlton & Porter. 16mo. 75 cts. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men. By Francis Arago, Member of the Institute. Translated by Admiral W.H. Smyth, D.C.L., F.R.S., etc:, Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., Robert Grant, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. $1.00. The Scouring of the White Horse; or the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk.
Spare Hours. By JOHN BROWN, M.D., Author of "Rab and his Friends." Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. It has not yet been satisfactorily explained why doctors are such shrewd and genial men, and, when they appear in the literary field, such charming writers.
Ticknor speaks of the Plymouth oration as impressing him as a series of eloquent fragments. The impression was perfectly correct. Mr. Webster touched on the historical event, on the character of the Pilgrims, on the growth and future of the country, on liberty and constitutional principles, on education, and on human slavery. This was entirely proper to such an address.
Trollope has lost her only remaining daughter; arrived in England only time enough to see her die. Adieu, dear Mr. Fields; say everything for me to Mr. and Mrs. Ticknor, and Mr. and Mrs. Norton. How much I should like to see you! Ever faithfully yours, M.R.M. You will have thought me either dead or dying, my dear Mr.
The Struggles of an Italian against Foreign Invaders and Foreign Protectors. By Massimo d'Azeglio. Boston. Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 16mo. pp. 356. $1.00. Idyls of the King. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 227. 75 cts. Lectures for the People. By the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, of Liverpool. First Series. With a Biographical Introduction, by Dr.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. Walton's Complete Angler. Edited by Sir Harris Nicolas. London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. The Stuart Restoration was a period of descent from poetry to prose, from passion and imagination to wit and the understanding. The serious, exalted mood of the civil war and Commonwealth had spent itself and issued in disillusion.
Dolby sat there at his desk in the Messrs. Ticknor and Fields' bookstore, literally doing nothing but sell tickets as fast as he could distribute them and take the money.
Tradition carries us back as far as the year 1831 or 1832, when cricket was first played on the ground of George Ticknor, Esq., west of the old bridge below Fairmount, by a few Englishmen, who shortly afterward organized themselves under the name of the Union Club.
She seems to be a very simple, pleasant person; chatty, but not too much so. She is much engrossed by the care of three of her brother's children, an old aunt, and a servant, who, having been long in the family, has become a dependant. Miss Southey spoke at once of the Americans whom she had known, Ticknor being one.
The most illustrious group, and the earliest, of American authors and scholars and literary men, the Boston and Cambridge group of the last generation Channing, the two Danas, Sparks, Everett, Bancroft, Ticknor, Prescott, Norton, Ripley, Palfrey, Emerson, Parker, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Agassiz, Lowell, Motley have been all sober and industrious citizens of whom Judge Sewall would have approved.
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