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Search - James Russell Lowell: A Biography - Vol II

James Russell Lowell A Biography Vol II
Author: Horace Elisha Scudder

JABIES RUSSELL LOTVELL IN TWO VOLUAIES VOL. 11. - 1901 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER PAGE S. LOWEL A L X D THE WAR FOR TIIE ION 1 SIII. POLITICS . . . . 185 S V . THE ESGLISH IISSION . 259 A. The Lowell Ancestry . . 409 E. b List of Copies of the Co lversations to be , given away by the Doll . . 419 C. A List of the Writings of Jaines Russell Lowell, a... more »rraiige 1 as nearly as nlay be in orcler of Public n t ion . 421 D. The Lomell JIenlorial in TFTestminster Abbey 445 LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE JAJIES RUSSELL OTTEL L L T 1882 . Frontispiece Fro111 the painting by Nrs. Anua Lea Rlerritt. 31. L OWELL IN HIS STUDY . 18G F1. onl a pliotograpli. J11ts. FRASCE D S U XI, AP L OTVELL . . 315 Fro111 a clbayon by S. TV. 1Lowse. THE HALL A T EL ITF O . OD e . 39-1 From a photograph. JAA4ES RUSSELL LOWELL CHAPTER S LOWELL AND TIIE WAR FOR THE UNION I t T n E th e Atlantic Jlbnthly was fonnclecl, its coilcluctors clid not conceal their intentioii to inalte it a l olitical magazine. It bore as its sub-head a title it lias never relinquisl eel, 11 Alagazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. The coinbinatioil uilcler Lowells superintenclence clicl not de note that articles were to be gronped nncler tliese lieacls it intirnntecl that in tlie attitude taken by tlie i lagaziile both art ancl politics were to be cliscussed by inell baving the literary faculty, and tlmt ttppl-ehensioii of subjects which fiilcls its natural training not cxelnsively in practice and affairs but in acquaintance wit11 giBcat literature wliicll is, after a, ll, the express image of art ancl politics. Thus, tlie nlagazine clicl not becorne, as it might in lesser llailcls, a niere prol agandno f reform, or the organ of a political party, ncitller dicl it assume the air of l ilosophiacbasle nteeism. If one examines tlie early numbers he is struck wit11 the preponderance of imaginative literature ancl of that artistic clenlellt whicli fiiids expressioii in liistorieal narrative or in the essay. The space given to discussion of affairs is not coiisiclerable, but evidently the subjects are chosen wit11 delil eration, and they are treated if not wit11 distinction yet with a good cleal more tlian inercly newspaper care. Sucli articles are folli cl at tlie latter cud of the magazine, a place iiicleecl naturally adapted to them, siiiee i11 tlie praetiee of printing opportnnity vould tlius be give11 for tlie latest possible eonsideration of current events still, thougli tlie latest artieles in tlie successive iinmbers, they were written at least a nolith, a nd liiore liliely six veeltso r two inontl s even before tliey eonlcl collie into the 11ancls of readers, so that the acthors mere eoinpelled to see tlliiigs in tlie large far more than writers vlio niigllt elialige tlieir judgnleiits over night on the receipt of a telegrani. Tl esea rticles, correspoilding, as f xr as s nlolltlily could parallel a daily, to the leader of a jonrnal, were llsllally one to a iiunll cr. I11 the Noveniber, 1857, dtlutttic, the first to be issnecl, was Tlie Financial Flnri. y, by Mr. ParBe Goclwin, who Iiad been an inlportniit writer on tlie staff of P , I L C U Blb ztl ly. 111 Deceiiil er appeared IITliere will it End by Eclnlnnd Quincy, an enclniry into the ollteolile of slavery ill America, soii ewliat in the ilatllre of tliat gentlemans eontributiolis to tlie Alzti-Slclvoy Stn zcla cwl, h en he and Lo vellw ere associated there, tliollgli soniewl at more n oclerate in iiiaiiiier...

ISBN-13: 9781408627310
ISBN-10: 1408627310
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 504
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Publisher: Macnutt Press
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