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The Adventures of Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. Library Edition. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. $1.25. The Household Edition of the Waverley Novels. Count Robert of Paris. 2 vols. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. $1.50. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849-1855.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 2 vols. 16mo. Thomas Hughes, the author of these volumes, does not, on a superficial examination, seem to deserve the wide reputation he has obtained. We hunt his books in vain for any of those obvious peculiarities of style, thought, and character which commonly distinguish a man from his fellows.
Like most of the quarters occupied by British officers, the house occupied by Major Roger Ticknor and his wife Mabel was "enemy property," and its only virtue consisted in its being rent free. Grim, Jeremy, little Ticknor and his smaller wife, and I sat facing across a small deal table with a stuttering oil-lamp between us.
Ticknor & Fields. 8vo. pp. xi., 464. $1.25. The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper. Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley. New York. Townsend & Co. 12mo. pp. x., 515. $1.50. The Union. Boston. Crocker & Brewster. 16mo. pp. 48. 50 cts. The Hidden Gem. A Drama in Two Acts. Composed for the College Jubilee of St. Cuthberts, Ushaw, 1858. By H.E. Cardinal Wiseman. Baltimore.
Ticknor, in his "History of Spanish Literature," had omitted to state, and that had not been fully discussed between these two distinguished men during an intercourse that had originated not only in the warmest personal friendship, but in the similarity of their studies and pursuits. On this, as on every other topic of which he treats, Mr.
Just as the wandering scholars from Italy had brought the New Learning, which was a revival of the old learning, into England in the sixteenth century, so now young New England college men like Edward Everett and George Ticknor brought home from the Continent the riches of German and French scholarship.
Ticknor found the society of Gifford and his friends more congenial than that of "persons" like Lamb and Hunt.
Time went on, the war broke out, and he had not the heart to go on with his new Romance. During the month of April, 1862, he made a visit to Washington with his friend Ticknor, to whom he was greatly attached. While on this visit to the capital he sat to Leutze for a portrait. He took a special fancy to the artist, and, while he was sitting to him, wrote a long letter to me.
Nor did he insinuate his consciousness that the dedication might seem to involve him as it did in certain citadels of stupidity in the views of the book. The story was sent to its publishers, Messrs. Ticknor and Fields, and leisurely awaited their verdict. As I had written somewhat for their magazines, "The Atlantic" and "Our Young Folks," I did not come as quite a stranger.
Over it hung a portrait of Sir Walter Scott, a copy, I think, of the one that represents him in Melrose Abbey. Mr. Ticknor was most kind in his alacrity to solve the point on which Mr. Certainly, he is a fine example of a generous-principled scholar, anxious to assist the human intellect in its efforts and researches.
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