Excerpt from The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 3: May 11, 1895 Only the good fairies visited Lowell's cradle, and they had all manner of good gifts to bestow, - a noble ancestry, a poetic temperament, a happy child hood, a congenial home, and a pure social life. Add to this his birthright as an American, the famous New England conscience, a ballast of common sense and a love of freedom, and we do not wonder that the product was an enlightened, nineteenth century Puritan. Lowell likewise put in a claim to the intellectual achievements of England, taking Shakespeare for his own, and insisting that New England had a much better right to Milton than England itself, thus adding much to his inheritance. Lowell's education aside from that he garnered like a bee from the wild flowers of sweet Auburn, and the dandelion on his lawn, to whom he said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.