Invaluable and delightful.

Edmund Clarence Stedman: _Poets of America_.

W.C. Brownell: _James Russell Lowell_. (Scribner's Magazine, February,
1907.) The most recent critical estimate.

George William Curtis: _James Russell Lowell: An Address_.

John Churton Collins. _Studies in Poetry and Criticism_, "Poetry and
Poets of America." Excellent as an English estimate.

Barrett Wendell: _Literary History of America_ and _Stelligeri_, "Mr.
Lowell as a Teacher."

Henry James: _Essays in London and Library of the World's Best
Literature_.

George E. Woodberry: _Makers of Literature_.

William Watson: _Excursions in Criticism_.

W.D. Howells: _Literary Friends and Acquaintance_.

Charles E. Richardson: _American Literature_.

M.A. DeWolfe Howe: _American Bookmen_.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson: _Old Cambridge_.