![]() ![]() Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ![]() The story was published in the "Atlantic Monthly," in 18.įorgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. As I learned almost everything I know through his care and love and help, directly or indirectly, it is a pleasure to say this here. ![]() The account of the first plan of the moon is a sketch, as accurate as was needed, of the old chat and dreams, plans and jokes, of our college days, before he left Cambridge in 1838. The story of The Brick Moon was begun in my dear brother Nathan's working-room in Union College, Schenectady, in the year 1870, when he was professor of the English language there. But I have to make sure that they are intelligible to readers of a generation later than that for which they were written. To read these stories again, thirty and more years after they were written, is to recall many memories, sad or glad, with which this reader need not be interrupted. Excerpt from The Brick Moon: And Other Stories ![]()
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