This compilation offers Hawthorne's tales, sketches and other papers that were not included in any other publication. The first group of short pieces embraced in this volume belongs to Hawthorne s earlier period; excepting " Browne s Folly," which was addressed to the author's cousin, Mr. Richard Manning, of Salem, after the return from Europe. The "Biographical Sketches," that follow next in the order of contents, appear here as the result of a gleaning from old magazines, which was made after Hawthorne s death.

Contents:

Tales and Sketches

Sketches From Memory

Fragments From The Journal Of A Solitary Man

My Visit to Niagara

The Antique Ring

The Legend.

Graves and Goblins

Dr. Bullivant

A Book Of Autographs

An Old Woman's Tale

Time's Portraiture

Browne's Folly

Biographical Stories

Benjamin West

Sir Isaac Newton.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Oliver Cromwell

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Queen Christina

Biographical Studies

Mrs. Hutchinson.

Sir William Phips.

Sir William Pepperell.

Thomas Green Fessenden.

Jonathan Cilley.

Alice Doane's Appeal

Chiefly About War Matters

The Life of Franklin Pierce