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Title: Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902
Subjects: Authors, American
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, in the journalwhich he kept and in which he set down his reflections. Living in the seclusion of Concord, unaided by theweight of any organization, he was a power that worked asnoiselessly as light. An address, now and then, like thaton The American Scholar, given before the Phi Beta Kappasociety of Harvard College in 1837, or that given to thesenior class of the Divinity School in Cambridge in 1838,worked revolutions in the minds of men, and Emersonsthought on religious subjects was awaited by many in thehope that it would solve all their doubts. He watched many movements in politics, religion, andsociety, and spoke his word with more or less directness,but identified himself with no organization. He was oneof the first to hail Carlyle, and the life-long correspondenceof the two men was published after their death. He hasbeen the subject of much writing by men of thought, and,besides Mr. Cabots memoir, a briefer study by Dr. Holmeshas appeared in the American Men of Letters series.
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JOHN FISKE. JoHX FiSKE was l)orn in Hartford, Connecticut, March30, 1842. His name was originally Edmund Fiske Green,but on the marriage of his widowed mother to Edwin W.Stoughton, at one time the American Minister to Russia,he took the name of a gTeat-grandfather, John Fiske. Be-fore he was a year old he was taken to his grandmothershome in Middletown, and remained there until he enteredHarvard College in 1800. His actual scholastic preparationfor college may be said to have begun when he was six yearsold. At seven he was reading Caesar, and had read Rollin,Joseplms, and Goldsmiths Greece. Before he was eighthe had read the whole of Shakesjjeare. and a good deal ofMilton, Bunyan, and Pope. He began Greek at nine. Byeleven he had read Gil)bon, Robertson, and Prescott, andmost of Froissart, and at the same age wrote from memorya chronological table from B. c. 1000 to A. D. 1820, fillinga quarto blank book of sixty pages. At twelve he had readmost of the Collectanea Grceca Major a, by t

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