THE
LIFE AND GENIUS
OF
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE



BY
FRANK PRESTON STEARNS

AUTHOR OF "THE REAL AND IDEAL IN LITERATURE," "LIFE OF
TINTORETTO," "LIFE OF BISMARCK," "TRUE REPUBLICANISM," "CAMBRIDGE
SKETCHES," ETC.



[Illustration: Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Frances Osborne Portrait: by
permission of the Essex Institute.]

INSCRIBED

TO
EMILIA MACIEL STEARNS

"In the elder days of art
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part,--
For the gods see everywhere."
--_Longfellow_