Gifts of Genius - A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gifts of Genius, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors Author: Various Release Date: February 27, 2006 [EBook #17872] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIFTS OF GENIUS *** Produced by Curtis Weyant, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by the Wright American Fiction Project.) GIFTS OF GENIUS: A Miscellany OF PROSE AND POETRY, BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. NEW YORK: PRINTED FOR C.A. DAVENPORT. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by C.A. DAVENPORT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. [v]CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY, ix OUT AT ELBOWS.—THE STORY OF ST. GEORGE CLEAVE. By John Esten Cooke, 13 MY SECRET. (From the French.) By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 42 A LEAF FROM MY PARIS NOTE-BOOK.By H.T. Tuckerman, 44 THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS. By Bayard Taylor , 55 ON POPULAR KNOWLEDGE. By George S. Hillard, 57 ON RECEIVING A PRIVATELY PRINTED VOLUME OF POEMS FROM A FRIEND.