ranslation, but undertook to condense some passages and omit others.
Her preface is certainly modest enough, and underrates instead of overstating the value of lier own work.
She made a delightful book of it, and one which, with Sarah Austin's Characteristics of Goethe, helped to make the poet a familiar personality to English-speaking readers.
For one, I can say that it brought him nearer to me than any other book, before or since, has ever done.
This volume was published at Boston, by Hilliard, Gray & Co., in 1839,--her preface being dated at Jamaica Plain on May 23 of that year,--and I suspect that she never had any compensation for it beyond the good practice for herself and the gratitude of others.
Her preface contains some excellent things, giving a view of Goethe more moderate than that which Carlyle had just brought into vogue, though she still was ardent and admiring enough.
But she points out very well — though perhaps emphasizing them too much — some of the limitation
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Havre, 46, 158.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7, 18, 44, 53, 64, 68, 133, 134, 193, 198, 209, 272, 285, 294; his Twice-Told Tales, mentioned, 72, 130; on Voices of the Night, 141; married, 162; suggests Evangeline to Longfellow, 194,195; on Kavanagh, 199.
Healy, George P. A., 223.
Heard, Tom, 131.
Heath, Mr., Book of Beauty, mentioned, 121.
Heidelberg, 111, 113, 128.
Herwegh, Georg, 161.
Hiawatha, 187, 221, 258; commenced, 208; newspapers on, 209.
Hillard, George S., 168, 284.
Hilliard, Gray & Co., 69.
Hingham, Mass., 61.
Hirm, Me., 12.
Holm, Saxe, 122.
Holmes, Dr., Oliver Wendell, 1, 6, 57, 68, 146, 197, 273, 285, 294; on Evangeline, 194; on Longfellow, 287.
Home Circle, the, quoted, 279.
Homer, 5, 235.
Hook, Theodore, 10.
Horace, 19, 45.
Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 284.
Howe family, 214.
Howells, William D., 126, 198; on Kavanagh, 200.
Hudson River, 132, 248.
Hughes, Mr., 96.
Hugo, Victor, 3, 5,
Humphreys, David, 23.
Hunt, Helen, 122.
Huron, La