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LITTLE PILGRIMAGES AMONG THE MEN WHO HAVE WRITTEN FAMOUS BOOKS


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_Book Lovers' Series_

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_Little Pilgrimages Among the Men
Who Have Written Famous Books_

_Little Pilgrimages Among the Women
Who Have Written Famous Books_

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_L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
200 Summer Street
Boston, Mass._

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[Illustration: Reproduced, by permission, from "A Pair of Patient
Lovers."--Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.]


LITTLE PILGRIMAGES AMONG THE MEN WHO HAVE WRITTEN FAMOUS BOOKS

by

E. F. Harkins

Illustrated







[Illustration]

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCII

Copyright, 1901, by
L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated)

All rights reserved

Typography by
The Heintzemann Press Boston

Presswork by The Colonial Press
C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston




PREFACE


_The aim of this book is to present to the reading public sketches of
some of its American literary heroes. There are heroes young and old;
but in literature, especially, age has little to do with favorites. At
the same time, it will be noted that the subjects of these sketches
occupy places in or near the centre of the literary stage. The lately
dead, like Maurice Thompson; the hero of the last generation, like
Edward Everett Hale; the young man who has made his first successful
flight--these do not come within the scope of the present work. So, if
some reader miss his favorite, let him understand that at least there
was no malice in the exclusion._

_A part of the aim has been to present the social or personal as
well as the professional side of the authors. Many of the anecdotes
commonly told of well-known novelists are apocryphal or imaginary.
Care, therefore