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ville and a Bibliography, by Mr. Meade Minnigerode

(1922).

I hope America will pardon the inclusion of an American writer among English men of letters.

J. F.

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English Men of Letters

HERMAN MELVILLE

"It is for the nation's sake, and not for her authors' sake, that I would have America be heedful of the increasing greatness among her writers. For how great the shame, if other nations should be before her, in crowning her heroes of the pen!"-Melville on "Hawthorne and his Mosses."

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