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Article: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- June 22, 1991
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The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Chief Editor, Vol. 1 ed. Susan Sutton Smith (U of Missouri P, 1990), xiv + 3442pp., $37.50 cloth.
In his 1880 Concord Lyceum lecture, "Historic Notes of the Life and Letters of New England," Ralph Waldo Emerson fitfully praised the genius of Edward Everett, the man he credited for his special influence on several generations of Harvard scholars: "The smallest anecdote of his behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated, and every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from his sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice." The special sort of idolatry that Everett inspired in his ...