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Excerpt from Half Hour Lessons on American Authors, for Social Literary Circles
Many circles have been formed, and the work has prospered through summersscorching 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 Washington 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.
We have been mystified. Edified. And almost defied at times by Ralph \valdo Emerson's deep philosophizing, but ever encouraged by a wise men tor we did not consign him to oblivion. But rather sheltered him in a Cleft in the Rock. From whence his memory shall be taken from time to time, ever growing more beautiful to us as we are able to grasp his idealities and his spiritualities.
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