February 1881 Issue [Article] Literary and social Boston Download PDF Adjust Share by George Parsons Lathrop, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags 19th century American authors Boston Boston (Mass.) Charles Eliot Norton Edward Everett Hale Edwin Percy Whipple Intellectual life James Thomas Fields John Boyle O'Reilly Julia Ward Howe Massachusetts Ralph Waldo Emerson Thomas Bailey Aldrich William Dean Howells More from George Parsons Lathrop Our own exposed deformity The progress of art in New York Talks with Edison Adjust Share