Hawthorne And His Publisher

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They could not do otherwise. I never thought of blaming them. It was not for such an Eng- lishman as one of these to get beyond the idea that an assault was meditated on England's greatest poet.
" From the scholars and critics of her own country, indeed. Miss Bacon might have looked for a worthier appreciation, because many of the best of them have higher cultivation and finer and deeper sensibilities 202 Hawthorne and His Publisher than all but the very profoundest and brightest of Englishmen.
... But they are not a courageous body of men; they dare not think a truth that has an odor of absurdity, lest they should feel themselves bound to speak it out. If any American ever wrote a word in her behalf, Miss Bacon never knew it, nor did I.
Our journalists at once republished some of the most brutal vituperations of the English press, thus pelt- ing their poor countrywoman with stolen mud, with- out even waiting to know whether the ignominy was deserved. And they never have known it, to this day, nor ever will." Had Hawthorne lived a few years longer he would have had the satisfaction of seeing his proteg6e's pro- duction viewed in a manner more gratifying to his de- sire for literary justice, although he would no doubt have stood aghast at the body of converts destined to uphold this theory, which he had launched out of sympathy for the eccentric author, while disavowing his belief in her Baconian gospel.


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