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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 21 (search)
lost favor with a strange guest, in those days, by the very quickness which gave her no time for second thought. Yet, after all, of what quickness of wit may not this be said? Time, practice, the habit of speaking in public meetings or presiding over them, these helped to array all her quickwittedness on the side of tact and courtesy. Mrs. Howe was one of the earliest contributors to the Atlantic Monthly. Her poem Hamlet at the Boston appeared in the second year of the magazine, in February, 1859, and her Trip to Cuba appeared in six successive numbers in that and the following volume. Her poem The last Bird also appeared in one of these volumes, after which there was an interval of two and a half years during which her contributions were suspended. Several more of her poems came out in volume VIII (1861), and the Battle hymn of the Republic in the number for February, 1862 (ix, 145). During the next two years there appeared six numbers of a striking series called Lyrics of the