Half Hour Lessons on American Authors, for Social Literary Circles (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Half Hour Lessons on American Authors, for Social Literary Circles A little seed dropped in a fertile soil a vear and a half ago has budded and brought forth fruit. Many circles have been formed, and the work has prospered through summer's scorching heat, through the lovely-tinted autumnal hours, and through hoary winter's fiercest blasts. We have taken old-time peeps of New York City through Diedrich Knickerbocker's eyes, we have eaten of Geoffrey Crayon's Salmagundi, we have climbed the mountain side with Rip Van Winkle, and almost slept in Sleepy Hollow by the side of \vashington Irving, we have wandered through the pathless forest with Natty Bumps, the Leather Stocking hero of Cooper's fancy, then rigged him up in his tarpaulin and called him Long Tom Coffin as we sailed with him over the Bounding Billows we lingered a long time among the cool, quiet, poetic fancies of Bryant, the Father of American poetry we have made the acquaintance of Irving's ladv friends, and many of the Society Queens of a century ago, and also of the literary ladies who first gave Europe to know that the young country's daughters were akin in intellect to their own fair dames. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.