Mosses from an Old Manse, Volume II

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As we turn over these volumes we feel that the pieces that spring most directly from his fancy, constitute, as I have said (putting his four novels aside), his most substantial claim to our attention. It would be a mistake to insist too much upon them; Hawthorne was himself the first to recognize that…the valuable element in these things was not what Hawthorne put into them consciously, but what passed into them without his being able to measure it – the element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. This is the real charm of Hawthorne’s writing – this purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy. – Henry James