THE HAWTHORNE CLASSICS AMERICAN ESSAYS EDITED BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR., PH.D. PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND LOGIC IN UNION COLLEGE GLOBE SCHOOL BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK AND CHICAGO PREFATORY NOTE THIS Volume follows a plan slightly different from that of its companion, "English Essays," for a reason noted in the Introduction. It gives something from our very best essayists, however. It will seem that Emerson cannot be wholly understood by a young reader. But it is well for any one to read something of Emerson, even if he do not understand it thoroughly. Lowell's essay is a good apology for offering Emerson to those who cannot grasp his whole thought. The notes are few. Emerson and Lowell would permit many, but we have here helps only in places that did not seem themselves to offer the clew to explanation. E. E. H., JR. 383735 ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE extracts from "Emerson the Lecturer" and "A Great Public Character," by James Russell Lowell, are used by special arrangement with and permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the authorized publishers of Lowell's works. |