3. Reveries of a Bachelor, or A Book of the Heart, by Ik. Marvel, new and revised edition. New York, 1887.

4. Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons, by Ik. Marvel. New York, 1851.

5. Fudge Doings: being Tony Fudge's Record of the In 2 vols. New York, 1855.

same.

6. My Farm of Edgewood; A Country Book, by the author of a Bachelor. New York, 1863.

7. Wet Days at Edgewood; with Old Farmers, Old Gardeners, and Old Pastorals, by the author of "My Farm of Edgewood". New York, 1865.

8. Rural Studies, Hints for Country Places, by the author of My Farm of Edgewood. New York, 1867.

9. Bound Together: A Sheaf of Papers, by the author of Wet Days at Edgewood, Reveries of a Bachelor, etc. New York, 1884

10. English Lands, Letters, and Kings, by Donald G. Mitchell. Four Series. New York, 1889-1898. New York.

11. American Lands and Letters, The Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle, by Donald G. Mitchell, 1897.

12. About Old Story Tellers. When they lived and what stories they told. By Donald G. Mitchell. New York.

13. Fresh Gleanings, or a New Sheaf from the Old Field of Continental Europe. New York, 1847.

14. Seven Stories, with Basement and Attic. By the author of "My Farm of Edgeword". New York, 1864.

15. Dr. Johns, being the Narrative of a Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister in Connecticut, by the author of My Farm of Edgewood, in two volumes. New York 1866.

16. American Authorship. X Donald G. Mitchell. The New Monthly Magazine, quoted in Littell's Living Age, xl:319. 17. The Literary World, xxviii. 397.

18. The Critic, xxviii. 262.

19. The Bookman, v. 432.

20. Public Opinion, xxii. 631.

21. The New Englander, xxv. 679.

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William Hickling Prescott

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The life of Prescott is a remarkable contribution to the discussion of whether it is character or environment that predominates in life. There was almost every reason why he should not be a great historian. In the first place he lacked the impulse of necessity. He came of ancestry so distinguished. that Thackeray opens his "Virginians" by referring to it. His father was reckoned to have no superior at a bar where Sullivan, Parsons, Dexter, Otis, and Webster were his competitors, and on retiring from his profession after forty years of practice was considered by such a judge as Daniel Webster to have stood at the head of the bar of Massachusetts for legal learning and attainments7.