Writings
His publications include:
- memoirs of James Brown and Jeremiah Mason (privately printed)
- a life of Captain John Smith for Sparks's “American Biography”
- The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, with a critical introduction (5 vols., Boston, 1839)
- a translation of François Guizot's “Essay on the Character and Influence of George Washington” (1840)
- memoir of Henry Russell Cleveland with a selection from his writings (privately printed, 1845)
- Memorial of Daniel Webster (1853)
- Six Months in Italy (2 vols., 1853)
- Selections from the Works of Walter Savage Landor (1856)
- Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan (Philadelphia, 1864)
- “Political Duties of the Educated Classes,” a pamphlet (Boston, 1866)
- Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, with Mrs. Ticknor (1876)
- a series of school Readers
and many articles in periodicals and encyclopedias.
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