Excerpt from James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, With Unpublished Fragments This was quite as much as was wise or possible to say to students still under their master's super vision, but in his lecture on Fiction he reiter ates his faith ih the value Of literature of the imagination in forming the young mind. James Russell Lowell has lately given expres sion to this same truth, in his speech at the Lit crary Fund Dinner in London. Science, Mr. Lowell says, can never extinguish imagination, nor that thirst which human nature feels for some thing more piercing than facts are apt to be. I think that as long as the human race lasts wonder and delight in natural things, which, perhaps, are not useful, and which are certainly not scientific. 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.