THE OPTIMIST.

THE

OPTIMIST:

A Series of Essays.

1852

BY

HENRY T. TUCKERMAN,

Author of "Characteristics of Literature," "Thoughts on the Poets,"
"Artist Life," &c.

A New Edition.

"That I may show the whole world that we ought to value little joys more than great ones; the
night gown more than the dress-coat; that Plutus' heaps are worth less than his handfuls, and not
great, but little good-haps, can make us happy. You perceive my drift is, that man may become a
little tailor-bird, which, not amid the crashing boughs of the storm-tossed, roaring, immeasurable tree
of life, but upon one of its leaves, sews itself a nest together, and there lies snug."-Jean Paul
Frederic Richter.

NEW

YORK:

GEORGE P. PUTNAM,

155 BROADWAY,

1852.

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