weighing-process

Updated: May 7, 2025

There was but little literary criticism in the United States at the time Hawthorne's earlier works were published; but among the reviewers Edgar Poe perhaps held the scales the highest. He at any rate rattled them loudest, and pretended, more than any one else, to conduct the weighing-process on scientific principles.

Henry James - Hawthorne: (English Men of Letters Series)