Old Cambridge

The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the &quote;Three Literary Epochs&quote; of the second chapter - the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly - were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, and a part of which he was; the last three chapters he dedicated to the famous writers Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell.

Résumé
The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the "Three Literary Epochs" of the second chapter the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, and a part of which he was; the last three chapters he dedicated to the famous writers Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell.