Longfellow on the Study of Language.

"By every language you learn, a new world is opened before you. It is like being born again."

Income from His Pen.

Tennyson is said to have realized more money from poetry than any other English-writing poet; Longfellow and Whittier stood not far behind him.

His Autograph.

Probably no famous man was ever more besieged by autograph hunters. His patience was inexhaustible. Only the week before his death he received a call from four Boston schoolboys, and wrote in their albums.

He kept a store of autographs at hand with which to meet requests.

An Idealized Puritan.

"Child of New England, and trained by her best influences; of a temperament singularly sweet and serene, and with the sturdy rectitude of his race, refined and softened by wide contact with other lands and many men; born in prosperity, accomplished in all literatures, and himself a literary artist of consummate elegance, he was the fine flower of the Puritan stock under its changed modern conditions. Out of strength had come forth sweetness. The grim iconoclast, humming a surly hymn,' had issued in the Christian gentleman. Captain Miles Standish had risen into Sir Philip Sidney." — GEORGE W. CURTIS. Longfellow's Mission.

"He helped to utter the emotions of the universal human heart. It is when a writer speaks for us what were else unspoken-setting our minds free, and giving us strength to meet the cares of life and the hour of death - that he first becomes of real value.. Longfellow has done this for thousands of human beings, and done it in the language of perfect simplicity, — never bald, never insipid, never failing to exalt the subject, which is at once the most beautiful and the most difficult of all the elements of literature."-WILLIAM WINTER.

Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Poe.

"Like Whittier, Longfellow is beloved; like Emerson, he is honored for his poetic evangel; and, like Poe, he is studied as an artist in words and metrical effects."

"Longfellow -less brilliant than Lowell, whether as a poet or a student, but his superior in patient industry and evenness of taste." STEDMAN.

Some Studies in Longfellow.

The countries and times to which he turned for his poetic themes. The secret of his popularity. Evangeline and Priscilla. His metrical expertness. His poems of friendship.

See W. C. Gannett's Studies in Longfellow. (Riverside Literature Series.)

Illustrated Editions of Longfellow. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

Complete Works. Subscription Edition. Three quarto volumes. Poems. Four one-volumed editions.

Individual Works.

Christus. Hiawatha. Evangeline. The Building of the Ship.
The Hanging of the Crane. Michael Angelo.

Twenty Poems. Birthday Book. Prose Birthday Book.

Annotated Editions. (By the same firm.)

Complete Works. New Riverside Edition. Eleven volumes.
Individual and Selected Works.

a. In "Riverside Literature" form. Evangeline. The Court-
ship of Miles Standish. Lyrics and Ballads (twenty-one
in number). Hiawatha. The Golden Legend. Tales

of a Wayside Inn.

b. In "American Poems." Evangeline. The Courtship of Miles Standish. The Building of the Ship.

c. In "Masterpieces of American Literature." Evangeline. d. Translation of the Divina Commedia of Dante.

Anthologies by American Authors.

Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song. Emerson's Parnassus. Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe. Whittier's Songs of Three Centuries. Charles A. Dana's Household Book of Poetry.

A Group of Writers on the Indian.

James F. Cooper.
Henry W. Longfellow.
Francis Parkman.
Helen Hunt Jackson.

The Romancer of the Indian.
The Poet of the Indian.

The Historian of the Indian.
The Novelist of the Indian.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.