... the Hudson, for as Mrs. Josiah Quincy tells us, writing when Irving was a little boy, the captains on the Hudson had even then a tradition for every hillside; but he immortalized them. Longfellow, Hawthorne , and even Poe, in their short stories, often showed glimpses of his influence, and we see in the Dingley Dell scenes in how much Dickens owed to them. The style is a little too deliberate and meas...