Randall Stewart

Two Uncollected Reviews by Hawthorne

A Lions Whelp was put on board a Guinea Ship bound to America as a Present to a Friend in that Country: It was tame and harmless as a Kitten, and therefore not confined, but suffered to walk about the Ship at Pleasure. A stately, full-grown English Mastiff, belonging to the Captain, despising the Weakness of the young Lion, frequently took its Food by Force, and often turned it out of its Lodging Box, when he had a Mind to repose therein himself. The young Lion nevertheless grew daily in Size and Strength, and the Voyage being long, he became at last a more equal Match for the Mastiff; who continuing his Insults, received a stunning Blow from the Lions Paw that fetched his Skin over his Ears, and deterred him from any future Contest with such growing Strength; regretting that he had not rather secured its Friendship than provoked its Enmity.

Hawthorne in England: The Patriotic Motive in the Note-Books

published in 1870, or printed in a modified form, with a view to making the work less offensive to English readers. A study of the complete original text of the note-books 1 serves to throw into strong relief the intensely patriotic Americanism of the writer an attitude of mind which was accentuated rather than softened by the years in England. First, in the descriptions of nature, Hawthorne, while recognizing over and over again the beauty of the English landscape, lost no opportunity of insisting upon items of American