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Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism Authors, American
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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youthful heart,And waked fond longings after fame. AVe part.The weary pilgrim to his home returns;For Freedoms air, for Western elimes he burns;Where dwell the brave, the generous and tlie free,O ! there is Home; no other Rome for me ! Yet Bancroft was not long cnamonred of themnse, and tlie little volume was presently with-drawn from circulation. A copy in the possessionof the Lenox Library shows numerous interlinea-tions and emendations in the script of the author— as if he had once intended a revised imprint;his engrossment, however, in those years with hisfriend Dr. Cogswell—with educational schemes,ctilminating in the establishment of the liound llillSchool—gave other direction to his industries andambitions. Round Hill School. Dr. Cogswell * was an older man than Bancroft,but their common trails of Euroj^ean travel had * Joseph Green Cogswell, b. 178G; d. 1871. Life of JosephG. Cogswell^ as sketched in his Letters: privately printed;Cambridge, 1874; edited by Anna Tickuor.
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3 s O ^ NORTHAMPTON. 39 brought them into lively mental contact; bothhad pursued studies of au omnivorous sort; theelder was familiar with the English school of Har-row, and Bancroft had glowing memories of avisit at Ilofwyl ; and out of their interfused ex-periences grew ujJ the plan for a boys school uponthe banks of the Connecticut which should f)utthe academies of Exeter and of Andover into theshade. The site chosen was a charming one ; EoundHill, with its century-old pines and chestnuts —many of their giant boles still braving the weath-ers— dominated the pretty river town of North-ampton, where arching elms shaded the sleejiyhighways and where the venerable homesteadsof the Dwights, and the Lymans, and the Strongsdiffused an aroma of respectability. From thehill on which stood the early and later buildingsof this school, one could look eastward athwartand over the embowered town to the heights ofMount Holyoke ; somewhat more to the left, butstill eastward and northward and b

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