INTRODUCTORY NOTE ΤΟ GREAT WRITERS." HIS series of little monographs has been designed ΤΗ to furnish the public with interesting and accurate accounts of the men and women notable in Modern Literature. Each monthly volume of "Great Writers" will be the work of an experienced biographer. It will be a chronicle of the chief events in a famous author's life; it will give a critical history of that author's works; it will also contain a full bibliography of these works; and it will be prefaced by an analytical Table of Contents, that will summarize the biography on a new plan. The Publisher ventures to express his opinion that original and valuable works such as these have never before been produced in any part of the world at a price so low as a shilling a volume. CONTENTS: CHAPTER I. Puritans land at Cape Cod; John Alden and Priscilla Mullens; their descendants; General Peleg Wadsworth; his daughter Zilpah who married Stephen Longfellow, and became mother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Longfellow, founder of the American Longfellow family; Longfellow genealogy; the city of Portland; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born at Portland, February 27, 1807; early days described in "My Lost Youth"; school- PAGE Longfellow goes to Bowdoin College (1822); fellow students; Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Longfellow graduates (1825), and delivers the "English Oration"; becomes Professor Elect of Modern Languages at Bowdoin; proceeds to Europe (1826); has already contributed to American Monthly Magazine, and United States Literary Gazette; home |