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THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE


By Frank Preston Stearns

Author Of "The Real And Ideal In Literature," "Life Of Tintoretto,"
"Life Of Bismarck," "True Republicanism," "Cambridge Sketches," Etc.



[Illustration: Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Frances Osborne Portrait: by
permission of the Essex Institute.]


INSCRIBED

TO

EMILIA MACIEL STEARNS

                       "In the elder days of art
                        Builders wrought with greatest care
                        Each minute and unseen part,--
                        For the gods see everywhere."
                                           --_Longfellow_

               "Oh, happy dreams of such a soul have I,
                And softly to myself of him I sing,
                Whose seraph pride all pride doth overwing;
                Who stoops to greatness, matches low with high,
                And as