ATLANTIC ESSAYS

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

NEW YORK
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

15 EAST SIXTEENTH STREET

1894

.A6

1894

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,

BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON & SON
CAMBRIDGE.

416-8

CONTENTS.

A PLEA FOR CULTURE (1867)

LITERATURE AS AN ART (1867)

AMERICANISM IN LITERATUre (1870)

A LETTER TO A YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR (1862)

OUGHT WOMEN TO LEARN THE ALPHABET? (1859)

A CHARGE WITH PRINCE RUPERT (1859)

MADEMOISELLE'S CAMPAIGNS (1858).

THE PURITAN MINISTER (1862)

FAYAL AND THE PORTUGUESE (1860)

THE GREEK GODDESSES (1869)

SAPPHO (1871)

ON AN OLD LATIN TEXT-BOOK (1871)