Excerpt from A Scholar's Letters to a Young Lady: Passages From the Later Correspondence of Francis James Child When he died the world lost much more than one of its great scholars. So wrote Charles Eliot Norton soon after the death of his classmate, friend, colleague, and kinsman by marriage, Francis James Child, Professor of English in Harvard University; and, to confirm these words, he characterized the great scholar as follows Original, quaint, humor ous, sweet, sympathetic, tender - hearted, faithful, these are the terms which first come to mind in describing him; the traits that these terms imply pervaded all his intelligence, gave character to his work, and made his learning the least part of him. 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.