Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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CARLYLE’S LAUGH
AND OTHER SURPRISES
CARLYLE’S LAUGH
AND OTHER SURPRISES
BY
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
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COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1909
The two papers in this volume which bear thetitles “A Keats Manuscript” and “A ShelleyManuscript” are reprinted by permission froma work called “Book and Heart,” by ThomasWentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897, byHarper and Brothers, with whose consent theessay entitled “One of Thackeray’s Women”also is published. Leave has been obtainedto reprint the papers on Brown, Cooper, andThoreau, from Carpenter’s “American Prose,”copyrighted by the Macmillan Company, 1898.My thanks are also due to the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences for permissionto reprint the papers on Scudder, Atkinson,and Cabot; to the proprietors of “Putnam’sMagazine” for the paper entitled “Emerson’sFoot-Note Person