Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches

The various prose sketches here reprinted were first published by Melville, some in Harper''s and some in Putnam''s magazines, during the years from 1850 to 1856. "Hawthorne and His Mosses," the only piece of criticism in this collection, is particularly interesting viewed in the light of Melville''s friendship with Hawthorne while they were neighbors at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The other sketch...