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Hiawatha, and also to recall the still more youthful verses which appeared in the Portland
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Gazette. He wrote in college not merely such verses, but some prose articles for the
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American Monthly Magazine, edited in Philadelphia, by Dr. James McHenry, who in his letters praised the taste and talent shown in the article upon
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Youth and Age. More important to the young poet, however, was his connection with a new semi-monthly periodical called the
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United States Literary Gazette. This was published in Boston and New York simultaneously, having been founded by the late Theophilus Parsons, but edited at that time by James G. Carter, of Boston, well known in connection with the history of public schools. Apparently Longfellow must have offered poems to the
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Gazette anonymously, for one of his classmates records that when he met Mr. Carter in Boston the editor asked with curiosity what young man sent him such fine poetry from Bowdoin College. A modest volume of
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Miscellaneous Poems, selected from the 'United States Literary Gazette,' appeared in 1826,--the year after Longfellow left college,--and it furnished by far the best exhibit of the national poetry up to that time. The authors represented were Bryant, Longfellow, Percival, Dawes, Mellen, and Jones; and it certainly offered a curious contrast to that equally characteristic volume of 1794, the
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Columbian Muse,