always
that which
enabled
him best
to discern
qualities.I
doubt if
he had any
theory of
criticism
except to
find out
what was
good in an
author and
praise
it;and he
rather
blamed
what was
ethically
bad than
what was
aesthetically
bad.In
this he
was
strictly
of New
England,and
he was of
New
England in
a certain
general
intelligence,which
constantly
grew with
an
interrogative
habit of
mind. He
liked to
talk to
you of
what he
had found
characteristic
in your
work,to
