Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 71
n powers, turn to prose. We are as glad Byronbeat him at poetry as we are that lameness hin- called him The Great Unknown or The Wiz-ard of the North. He never accounted for hisdisguise except by saying it was his humor. Nodoubt he felt more confident in his Coat ofDarkness; for, while he was sure… … THE GARDEN FRONT, ABBOTSFORD. dered him from being a soldier. Step by step,through handicaps and failures, the buried geniusof the man is found. In his warm admiration forMaria Edgeworths Irish tales he had once mod-estly thought that he might write stories of Scot-land. For the number of those…
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