The complete online text of Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

HOW TO EXPLAIN the perennial fascination of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes? Other judges, it could be argued, have decided more law. Benjamin Cardozo, while a state court judge, had occasion to write more abiding opinions on basic questions of modern common law. Other...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 A Glossary Of Literary Terms Abstract. A word or a sentence is said to be abstract when it refers to a general class of things or persons, or when it makes a statement about a quality or a state of being,...

Today is Thursday, March 8, the 67th day of 2007. There are 298 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 8, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and inflicted heavy damage...

Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2007. There are 300 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 6, 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave,...