...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...anything but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,'—in a town and a society, which had and could have nothing— or almost nothing—of those...

...come even in his clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. No author [he says] can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiqiuty, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,...

...the banks of the Nile. It is just this kind of sorrow and 1 Hawthorne {Marble Faun, Preface) speaks " of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong," and Motley, after reading the romance, says, " I like those shadowy, weird, fantastic, Hawthornesque...

...the Pyncheon family of Hawthorne's romance. In the preface to "The Marble Faun " Hawthorne wrote : " No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosper- romance? ° f ity in broad and simple daylight." And yet it may be ^^"i| a in doubted whether...

...writers continue to go abroad when with Hawthorne, their genius "rebels at the difficulty of writing romance about a country where there is no shadow,...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with our native land." Let them show the sanity and patriotism of the wish which immediately succeeds these...

...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,...as is happily the case with my dear native land." In each of Hawthorne's great romances the dramatis personae, are few — s.ome four or five. In character-drawing...

...tradition and legend. Of this Hawthorne complained as late as 1859, in the preface to "The Marble Faun": No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart...

...even in his clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. "No author," he says, "can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily" (it must and shall be happily !) "the case with my dear native land. It will be very...

...old Salem institution (1850). Hawthorne afterwards observed that " no author without a trial can see the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight." Yet in " The Scarlet Letter " he had touched even the gloom of Puritanism with the glamour of romance,...

...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear native land." Mr. Henry James seems to accept Hawthorne's view that his limitations were objective, and that he might...