Yesterdays with Authors
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The book is Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields. The contents list chapters headed Introductory, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens and Wordsworth. A preface to the edition says that Fields tells how he persuaded a jobless, despondent Nathaniel Hawthorne to let him print The Scarlet Letter.
The text says Thackeray's motto was Avoid performing to-day, if possible, what can be postponed till to-morrow. The text tells of a shabby, ungainly looking man who announced himself as proprietor of the Mammoth Rat and proposed to exchange season tickets. The text mentions a card sent by the pilot of a steamer, with the words Good by, Fields; good by, Mrs. Fields; God bless everybody, says W.M.T. The text describes rhododendrons that the hand of Art, conspiring with Nature, had planted as if in their native soil beneath the forest-trees.
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- James Thomas Fields
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- 305
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- English
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