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The Token (1833) the puzzle is yet greater, for though there are half a dozen stories without initials, or other clue to authorship, yet not one of them suggests Longfellow at all, or affords the slightest clue by which it can be connected with him, while on the other hand there is a poem occupying three pages and signed H. W. L., called
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An Evening in Autumn. This was never included by him among his works, nor does it appear in the list of his juvenile poems and translations in the Appendix to Mr. Scudder's edition of his
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Complete Poetical Works, yet the initials leave hardly a doubt that it was written by him. Why, then, was it not mentioned in this list sent to Mr. George W. Greene, or did he by a slip of the pen record it as a story and not as a poem? Perhaps no solution of this conundrum will ever be given, but it would form a valuable contribution to the record of his literary dawning. Judging from the evidence now given, the most probable hypothesis would seem to be that the two contributions which Longfellow meant to enumerate were the story called
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An Indian Summer in
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The Token for 1832, and a poem, not a story, in
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The Token for 1833. Even against this theory there is the objection to be made that the editor of
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The Token, Samuel G. Goodrich, in his
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Recollections of a Lifetime (New York, 1856), after mentioning Longfellow casually, at the very end of his list of writers, says of him,
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It is a curious fact that the latter, Longfellow, wrote prose, and at that period had shown neither a strong bias nor a particular talent for poetry.
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The Token, he was also engaged on an extended article for
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The North American Review, which was a great advance upon all that he had before published. His previous papers had all been scholarly, but essentially academic. They had all lain in the same general direction with Ticknor's
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History of Spanish Literature, and had shared its dryness. But when he wrote, at twenty-four, an article for
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The North American Review of January, 1832,{24} called
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The Defence of Poetry, taking for his theme Sir Philip Sidney's
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Defence of Poesy, just then republished in the
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Library of the Old English Prose Writers, at Cambridge, Mass., it was in a manner a prediction of Emerson's oration,
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The American Scholar,