Reviews and Literary Notices
A review by William Dean Howells of Herman Melville's "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War"
A review by William Dean Howells of Herman Melville's "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War"
The magazine was already established in its traditions when I came to it, and when I left it fifteen years later it seemed to me that if I had done any good it was little more than to fix it more firmly in them.
"I do not remember just what whim it was that led me to visit the police court ... perhaps it was because, in my revolt against unreality, I was in the humor to see life whose reality asserts itself every day in the newspapers with indisputable force"
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