...EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our literary history,—Lowell, Wh... ...e at Pittsfield, Mr. Melville was induced to enter the lecture field. From 1857 to 1860 he filled many engagements in the lyceums, chiefly speaking of... ... the book is hardly worthy of the author of ‘Typee.’ ‘The Confidence Man’ (1857), his last serious effort in prose fiction, does not seem to require c... ...and in some places as yet uncorrupted by inter- course with Europeans, the births would appear not very little to outnumber the deaths; the population... ... twelve children under the age of six months, and only became aware of two births. It is to the looseness of the marriage tie that the late rapid decr... ...of the islands, while, from the same cause, the originally small number of births is proportionally de- creased. Thus the progress of the Hawiians and...

...s unmindful uncon-scious of another? For there is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring n... ... SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Other Works by George Eliot Scenes of Clerical Life 1857 Stories Adam Bede 1859 Novel The Mill on the Floss 1860 Novel Silas...