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The literary epochs of
New England may be said to have been three: the first issue of the
North American Review (1815), that of the
Dial (1840), and that of the
Atlantic Monthly (1857). During each of these epochs a peculiarly important part was taken by
Cambridge men.
1.
the north American Review
The
North American Review, though preceded in
Boston by the short-lived
Massachusetts Magazine and the
Monthly Anthology, yet achieved an influence and a prominence which these did not reach, and is still issued, though in
another city
and in another form.
Of the Anthology Club of
Boston,
Josiah Quincy saidknowing intimately most of the members:--
Its labors may be considered as a true revival of polite learning in this country, after that
