"Complete in One Volume ""To this little book, we would say, 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man of genius.... [Hawthorne's writing] is characterized by a large proportion of feminine elements, depth and tenderness of feeling, exceeding purity of mind."" --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hawthorne's writings are ""a pure and living stream of manly thought and feeling, which characterizes always the true man, the Christian, the republican and the pat"