Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Horatio Bridge, who has compiled this volume of reminiscences chiefly from Hawthorne''s correspondence with himself and wife, is a retired Paymaster-General in the United States Navy. Mr. Bridge does not strictly follow the rules of chronology in his pages, and makes no attempt at a biographical sketch or critical estimate of Hawthorne. He simply gives facts old and new with little regard to struc...