" Complete in One Volume ""To this little book, we would say, 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man of genius.... [Hawthorne's writing] is characterized by a large proportion of feminine elements, depth and tenderness of feeling, exceeding purity of mind."" ?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hawthorne's writings are ""a pure and living stream of manly thought and feeling, which characterizes always the true man, the Christian, the republican and the pat"