Excerpt from Studies in LiteratureCatch the ear, his subjects are unexceptionable, and he has a little characteristic melody of his own which gives a gentle pleasure. But no body surely would rank Evangeline or Hiawatha among the great poems of the world. Some of the gentlemen who got up the recent movement in his favor, and whom the Dean of Westminster quaintly describes as not the least illustrious of living English men, have gone so far as to suggest to doubtful supporters that the American nation would be apt to take it badly, and make a mark against those literary names which did not appear in the Longfellow memorial list, a species of threat which of course would be much more effective if we had a copyright, but in present circumstances need not alarm anybody. These pretensions, which we can not help feeling exaggerated, are entirely out done, however, in an article which appeared in the November number of the Century, and which we suppose, as that is one of the most important of American magazines, repte sents the feeling of the educated classes in some respects at least. The subject of the article is England (a pretty big theme), which the writer discusses by no means unfairly or disrespectfully, and in very good English. He applauds, on the whole, the insignificant little island which has managed to appropriate so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.