...America" and to deprecate the writings Fields was reissuing. These early tales and sketches, he wrote, "have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade." "The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere...

...Twiie-Told Talrs (1837), Nathaniel Hawthorne endorses rather than dispels the notion of tedium: his tales "have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade,—the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation...

...bemusement. The tales this "not very forcible man" produced appear now as slight and transitory, possessing the "pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade." Further, these tales have been retrospectively cleansed of any potentially subversive or contagious...

...send off this time." The traitor produced a sheaf of papers and Mao tremblingly read a passage aloud: They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade — the cooIness of meditative habit, which diffuses itself through feeling and observation of every sketch....

...TWICE-TOLD TALES should have gained what vogue they did, than that it was so little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed...habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and obsenation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be...

...and compared by him to pale-tinted flowers that have blossomed in too retired a shade — marked by the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, he observes, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory,...

...apart in point of view as Longfellow and Poe. Hawthorne himself regarded the tales modestly enough. "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade. * * * Instead of passion there is sentiment; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life...

...OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. IN a notable passage, Hawthorne has said of his own Twice-Told Tales that " they have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade. . . . Instead of passion there 'is sentiment. . . . Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable...

...criticism upon these stories, written many years afterward, he accounted for their negative character — "the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade " — by his way of life while composing them. It had been a hermit life, a life of shadows, yet now...