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READING COURSES 
 
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 PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND RHETORIC IN THE 
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PKEFACE 
 
 Frequent inquiries by members of reading circles, 
 by college students, and others, for a systematic course 
 of reading in the American Classics have led the author 
 to the publication of the following pages, originally 
 prepared for use with his elective courses. The value 
 of systematic reading need not be dwelt upon, and the 
 inability of the average reader to select his own path 
 needs no comment. 
 
 These courses, which cover only a small fraction of 
 the great mass of our literature, aim to present to the 
 reader only the very best products of American belles- 
 lettres. The endeavor has been to include nothing in 
 Course I which has not stood the test of time, and 
 which has not been admitted by the general consent 
 of critics to the select list of American Classics. With 
 six exceptions, those of Stoddard; Stedman, Aldrich, 
 Mitchell, Burroughs, and Warner, all of whom have 
 long since won for themselves secure places in the field 
 of American letters, no living author has been in- 
 cluded. The course as presented includes only those 
 works of which no well-read American can be igno- 
 rant. 
 
 A major and a minor amount of reading is offered in 
 each course. The former requires a reading of all the 
 works mentioned in the text, while the latter requires 
 only those printed in full-faced type. The list of refer- 
 
4 PREFACE. 
 
 ences to biographies and critical works which is given 
 with each author, has, in every case, aimed to be select 
 rather than exhaustive. The reader is earnestly urged 
 to read as widely as possible in these authorities. To 
 read all would be to gain a minute knowledge of the 
 entire field of American literature. 
 
 Course I has been reduced to the lowest possible 
 limits. The aim constantly has been toward com- 
 pression. It has not seemed sufficient simply to direct 
 the reader to the masters ; it has rather seemed best 
 to direct only to the choicest work of the masters. 
 There is nothing, however, to prevent one from mak- 
 ing wide excursions from the limits set by the manual, 
 and from acquiring an intimate acquaintance with the 
 entire field. 
 
 Course II, which has been prepared for those who 
 wish to bring system to their readings in fiction, has 
 been reduced to a somewhat different scale. While 
 in this the author has by no means aimed to be exhaust- 
 ive, he has tried to present all of the representative 
 novels and tales that have been produced during the 
 past quarter century, that most significant and prolific 
 period in the history of American prose fiction. The 
 course is at best only suggestive. 
 
 Course III is simply an appendix to Course II. 
 The author doe<s not insist upon his selections as being 
 positively the best that could be made. He has, how- 
 ever, tried constantly to select those writers that are in 
 a way representative, and to choose from the work of 
 each that only which is best and most typical, and has 
 fortified his opinions in each case by reference to the 
 judgment of standard critics. 
 
INDEX OF PUBLISHERS 
 
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 Abbreviation. Publisher. 
 
 Am. Book ...... American Book Company. 
 
 Appleton D. Appleton & Co. 
 
 Armstrong A. C. Armstrong & Son. 
 
 Benjamin AV. R. Benjamin. 
 
 Cassell Cassell Publishing Company. 
 
 - Centmy Century Company. 
 
 Coates Henry T. Coates & Co. 
 
 Crowell -. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 
 
 De Wolfe De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. 
 
 Dodd Dodd, Mead & Co. 
 
 Flood Flood & Vincent. 
 
 Harper Harper & Brothers. 
 
 Heath D. C. Heath & Co. 
 
 Holt Henry Holt & Co. 
 
 Houghton Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 
 
 International International Book Company. 
 
 Lee Lee & Shepard. 
 
 Lippincott* J. B. Lippincott Company. 
 
 Little Little, Brown & Co. 
 
 Lothrop Lothrop Publishing Co. 
 
 Macmillan The Macmillan Company. 
 
 McKay ....... David McKay. 
 
 Putnam G, P. Putnam's Sons. 
 
 Roberts Roberts Brothers. 
 
 Scribner Charles Scribner's Sons. 
 
 Silver Silver, Burdett & Co. 
 
 Stone Stone & Kimball. 
 
 Webster C. L. Webster & Co. 
 
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FIVE PERIODS. 
 
 The literary history of America may be divided into five 
 distinct periods : — 
 
 I. The Colonial Period, 1607-1765. From the set- 
 tlement at Jamestown to the Stamp Act Congress. 
 Page 7. 
 II. The Eevolutionary Period, 1765-1812. To the 
 second war with England. Page 8. 
 
 III. The First Creative Period, 1812-1837. To the 
 
 rise of Emerson and the New England School. 
 Page 10. 
 
 IV. The Second Creative Period, 1837-1861. To the 
 
 Civil War. Page 18. 
 V. The Present, 1861 . Page 32. 
 
 I 
 
READING COURSES IN AMERICAN 
 LITERATURE. 
 
 oo><Ko° 
 
 COURSE I. 
 
 A Chronological Survey of the Masterpieces of 
 American Literature. 
 
 I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD. 
 
 [Required readings of the minor amount printed in full-faced type.] 
 
 Authorities. — Fisher's The Colonial Era (Scrib- 
 ner's); Tyler's American Literature^ Vols, i and ii 
 (Putnam). 
 
 Characteristics. — Very little real literature pro- 
 duced. Subjects largely religious and polemic. A few 
 journals, like those of Bradford and Winthrop, exceed- 
 ingly valuable as sources of history, and not without 
 literary merit. Two poets of considerable contempo- 
 rary fame, Anne Bradstreet and Michael Wigglesworth, 
 produced much verse, — all, however, of a didactic and 
 labored nature. No spontaneous and poetic verse writ- 
 ten during the period. 
 
 Until after the Revolution, the leading figures in 
 American literature were Cotton Mather, — pedan- 
 
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8 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 tic, voluminous, more profitably read about than read 
 (see Tyler, ii, 64 ; Richardson's American Literature^ i, 
 130. Putnam); Jonathan Edwards, — metaphysical, 
 profound, writings not of a literary nature (see Holmes' 
 Pages from an Old Volume of Life^ 367) ; and Benjamin 
 Franklin (see Life by McMaster. Houghton ; Rich- 
 ardson, Vol. i). 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Poor RicharcVs Almanac. (Ford's Ed'n. Putnam.) 
 The Autobiography. (Bigelow's Ed'n. Lippincott.) 
 
 n. THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. 
 
 Authorities. — Fiske's The American Revolution 
 (Houghton); Tyler's Literary History of the Ameri- 
 can Revolutio7i (Putnam). 
 
 Chahacteristics. — Writings few, mostly political. 
 The orations of a few earnest patriots, like Adams, 
 Otis, and Henry, represent the literature of the first 
 half of the period. During the Reconstruction Period 
 that followed the winning of independence, a large 
 amount of political literature appeared. The repre- 
 sentative writers were Washington, John Adams, 
 Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jay, and other promi- 
 nent statesmen of the time. The writings of these 
 men, however, belong less to literature than to his- 
 tory and politics. 
 
 The poetry of the Revolutionary Era, although 
 voluminous, was imitative and dreary. Trumbull's 
 MPingal is bright and readable in parts ; Barlow's 
 
THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, 9 
 
 Columhiad is ponderous and dull (see Tjder's Three 
 Men of Letters. Putnam); and Dwight's Conquest of 
 Canaan is unnatural and monotonous in the extreme. 
 The first American poetry worthy of unqualified praise 
 was w^ritten by Philip Freneau, who left, amid a great 
 mass of inferior material, a few true lyrics. 
 
 The beginnings of American fiction were made in 
 this period by Charles Brockden Brown, whose ro- 
 mances are morbid and inartistic, yet vivid and fasci- 
 nating. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Patrick Henry. (Life by "William Wirt. . Coates ; Life by 
 H. T. Beers. Houghton.) 
 Oration of March 28, 1775. 
 
 Oration of June 4, 1788. (Johnston's American Orations. 
 Holt.) 
 TJiomas Jeffersoyi. (Life by John T. Morse, Jr. Houghton.) 
 
 The Declaration of Independence. ^ 
 Thomas Paine. (Life by Moncure D. Conway. Scribner.) 
 Selections from Common Sense and The Crisis. (Library 
 of American Literature. Benjamin.) 
 Songs of the Revolution. (G. C. Eggleston's American War 
 Ballads and Lyrics. Putnam.) 
 '^ The Taxation of America." 
 " The Ballad of Nathan Hale.'' 
 '' Bold Hawthorne." 
 " The Battle of the Kegs." 
 '' Han Columbia." 
 '* Adams and Liberty." 
 Alexander Hamilton. (Life by H. C. Lodge. Houghton.) 
 Selections from the Federalist Papers. (Old South Leaf- 
 lets. Heath.) 
 Speech before ISTew York Convention. (Johnston. Holt.) 
 
10 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 John Trumbull. (Tyler's Three Men of Letters. Putnam.) 
 
 Selection from M^Fingal. (Lib. Am. Lit.) 
 Joel Barlow. (Tyler's Three Men of Letters. Putnam.) 
 
 Hasty Pudding. (Lib. Am. Lit.) 
 Timothy Dwight. 
 
 Selections from Travels in Neio England. (Lib. Am. Lit.) 
 
 " I love Thy Kingdom, Lord." (Hymnal.) 
 
 " Columbia." (Lib. Am. Lit.) 
 Philip Frenean. (Life by E. A. Duyckinck. Crowell.) 
 
 " On the Memorable Victory." 
 
 ^'Eutaw Springs." 
 
 ^' Barney's Invitation." 
 
 " Captain Barney's Invitation." 
 
 " The Northern Soldier." 
 
 ^^ Arnold's Departure." (All from Poems Relating to the 
 American Revolution. Crowell.) 
 
 ^^The Indian Burying Ground." 
 
 '' The Wild Honeysuckle." 
 
 " The Parting Glass." 
 
 " To a Honey Bee." (Lib. Am. Lit.) 
 Charles BrocJcden Brown. (Prescott's Miscellanies. Lippin- 
 cott.) 
 
 Wieland. 
 
 Edgar Huntley. (McKay.) 
 
 in. THE FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD. 
 
 Authorities. — Warner's Washington Irving (\io\\g\\- 
 ton); Pattee's American Literature., ch. vii (Silver). 
 
 Chakacteristics. — This was in reality the first 
 period in our literary history. Before 1820 little had 
 been produced that was not imitative and inferior. 
 With the appearance of Irving and Cooper and Bry- 
 
THE FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD. 11 
 
 ant, there came for the first time books of high and 
 acknowledged merit that were peculiarly and distinc- 
 tively American. Until the rise of Emerson and the 
 New England group of writers, New York was the 
 center of literary production ; and the '-'- Knicker- 
 bockers," that little group that gathered about Irving, 
 were the chief producers of prose and verse. 
 
 The Knickerbockers. 
 I. Washington Irving. 
 
 AuTHORixrES. — Standard complete life of Irving 
 by Pierre M. Irving (Putnam); best shorter life by 
 Charles Dudley Warner (Houghton) ; best single 
 critical estimate by George William Curtis in Liter- 
 ary and Social Essays (Harper). Irving's works 
 are published by Putnam. 
 
 The works of Irving fall naturally into four groups, 
 corresponding to four distinct periods in his life. 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Sketches. 
 
 Dutch-American 
 Sketches. 
 
 BMckerbocker's History of New York. *" 
 " Rip Van Winkle T and '- The Legend of 
 Sleepy Hollow'^' in The Sketch Book. 
 " Dolph Heyliger " in Bracehridge Hall. 
 Tales of a Traveler, part iv. 
 Wolferfs Boost. 
 The Sketch Book, v 
 English and j Bracebridge HaU. 
 
 Tales of a Traveler. 
 . The Crayon Miscellany. 
 
 Random Sketches. 
 
12 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 B. Spanish History and Romance. 
 
 [To be read in the order indicated.] 
 
 Mahomet and his Successors. 
 
 Legends of the Conquest of Spain. 
 
 Moorish Chronicles. 
 
 The Conquest of Granada. 
 
 The Alhambra. 
 
 The Life and Voyages of Columbus. ^ 
 
 Spanish Voyages of Discovery. 
 
 C Travel and Adventure in Western America. 
 
 A Tour of the Prairies. 
 
 Astoria. 
 
 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. 
 
 D. Biography. 
 
 Life of Oliver Goldsmith. 
 Life of Washington. 
 
 2. James Fenimore Cooper. 
 
 Authorities. — Lounsbury's James Fenimore Cooper 
 (Houghton) is almost the only authority on Cooper's 
 life and literary accomplishments. Best critical esti- 
 mate aside from Lounsbury's, Richardson, ii, p. 297. 
 Cooper's works are published by several houses, includ- 
 ing Appleton, Houghton, and Putnam. The Houghton 
 Edition has introductions to many of the volumes by 
 the author's daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper. 
 
 Of Cooper's thirty-two novels, only fifteen, at the very 
 most, should be read. 
 
THE FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD. 13 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A. Leather-Stocking Tales. 
 
 The Deerslayer. 
 
 The Last of the Mohicans. ^ 
 
 The Pathfinder. ^ 
 
 The Pioneers. 
 The Prairie. 
 
 B. Sea Tales. 
 
 The Pilot. 
 The Red Rover. 
 The Water Witch. 
 The Tivo Admirals. 
 Wing and Wing. 
 
 C. Early American History. 
 
 The Spy. 
 
 Lionel Lincoln. 
 Miles Wallingford. 
 Afloat and Ashore. 
 Satanstoe. 
 
 3. William CuUen Bryant. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Bryant is 
 Parke Godwin's (Appleton); best shorter life, Bige- 
 low's (Houghton); best critical estimate, by Stedman 
 in Poets of America (Houghton). 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Poems in Blank Verse. 
 
 ^^Thanatopsis."- 
 
 " Inscription for the Entrance of a "Wood."» " 
 
14 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 '' A Winter Piece." 
 
 ''The Prairies. '\ 
 
 " The Fountain.'' 
 
 " A Hymn to the Sea.'' 
 
 " The Night Journey of a River." 
 
 ''The Flood of Years.". 
 
 B. Nature Lyrics. 
 
 " To a Waterfowl.". 
 
 " Green River.". 
 
 " The Yellow Violet.'! 
 
 " The Painted Cup." 
 
 " The Planting of the Apple Tree.", 
 
 " Robert of Lincoln." 
 
 C. SOXGS OF THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 " Song of Marion's Men." ^ 
 
 " Seventy-Six." 
 
 *' The Green Mountain Boys." 
 
 D, Poems of Autumn. 
 
 "Autumn Woods." 
 
 "November.". 
 
 "The Death of the Flowers.'^ >». 
 
 " October." 
 
 "To the Fringed Gentian."^ 
 
 " The Voice of Autumn." 
 
 " My Autumn Walk." 
 
 " October 1866." 
 
 E. Translations. 
 " The Fifth Book of Homer's Odyssey."^ 
 
THE FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD. 16 
 
 4. Joseph Rodman Drake. 
 
 Authorities. — No life of Drake has yet been 
 written. See Wilson's Bryant and his Friends and 
 Life of Halleck (Appleton). For critical estimate, see 
 Stedman's Poets of America^ and Richardson, ii, 24. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 '' The American Flag.'' (Lib. Am. Lit.) 
 
 The Culprit Fay. (Knickerbocker ISTugget Ed'n. Putnam.) 
 
 5. Fitz-Greene Halleck. 
 
 Authorities. — Wilson's Life of Halleck (Apple- 
 ton). For critical estimate, see Bryant's Orations^ 
 p. 155 (Appleton). Halleck's works published by 
 Appleton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 " Marco Bozzaris." 
 
 " On the Death of Drake." 
 
 ^^ Burns." 
 
 " Eed Jacket." 
 
 " Alnwick Castle." 
 
 " The Field of the Grounded Arms." 
 
 6. Nathaniel Parker Willis. 
 
 Authorities. — Life by Henry A. Beers (Hough- 
 ton) ; best criticism, aside from that by Beers, in Low- 
 ell's A Fable for Critics, Willis' poems published by 
 Crowell; prose works published by Scribner. 
 
16 BEADING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A. Pkose. 
 
 Pencilings by the Way, 
 
 B. Poetry. 
 
 " Absalom." 
 '' The Widow of Nain.'' 
 '' The Dying Alchemist.'' 
 ^^ Unseen Spirits.'' 
 ^^The Belfry Pigeon." 
 
 Other Writers. 
 
 I. Daniel Webster. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Webster is 
 that by George T. Curtis (Appleton); the best shorter 
 life is that by H. C. Lodge (Houghton); best criti- 
 cism on Webster as a master of literary style, by 
 Whipple, in American Literature and Essays and Re- 
 views (Houghton). Best edition of Webster's great 
 speeches published by Little. See also Johnston's 
 American Orations (Holt). 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 The Bimker Hill Orations. 
 The Reply to Hayne. 
 
 The Landing at Plymouth. 
 
 2. Edgar Allan Poe. 
 
 Authorities. — The only absolutely reliable life of 
 Poe is Woodberry's (Houghton) ; the best single criti- 
 
THE FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD, IT 
 
 cism is Stedman's in Poets of America. The best 
 edition of Poe's works is that published by Stone in 
 ten volumes. 
 
 READINGS, 
 
 A. Poetry. 
 
 ^^The Raven." h 
 
 " The BeUs." >- 
 
 '' Annabel Lee." ^ 
 
 ^^To Helen." 
 
 " The City in the Sea." 
 
 " The Valley of Unrest." 
 
 '^ The Haunted Palace." 
 
 "To One in Paradise." 
 
 " Ulalume." 
 
 "Israfel." 
 
 "The Sleeper." 
 
 B. Imaginative Tales. 
 
 "The FaU of the House of Usher." » 
 
 " The Manuscript Found in a Bottle." 
 " Ligeia." . 
 
 C. Analytical Tales. 
 
 " The Gold Bug."* (Knickerbocker Nugget Ed'n, Putnam.) 
 " The Mystery of Marie Eogert." 
 "The Murders in the Eue Morgue." 
 
 D. Literary Criticism. 
 
 "The Poetic Principle." 
 
 " The Philosophy of Composition." 
 
 " The Eationale of Verse." 
 
18 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 IV. THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD. 
 
 Authorities. — Emerson's '-'- New England Reform- 
 ers," '-'- The Transcendentalist," and " Life and Letters 
 in New England " ; Frothingham's New England Tran- 
 scendentalism (Houghton); and Beers' Initial Studies in 
 American Letters (Flood). See also Pattee's American 
 Literature^ ch. xiii (Silver). 
 
 Characteristics. — This period, which is often 
 called the New England Period, was the golden age of 
 American literature. It arose from well-defined con- 
 ditions ; it had a philosophical basis ; its limits as to 
 time are very sharply defined. The literary leaders 
 of the period fall in a general way into three groups • 
 
 I. The Concord Group. 
 
 Authorities. — Richardson, i, 340 ; Beers' Initial 
 Studies, 
 
 I. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
 Authorities. — Standard life of Emerson by Cabot; 
 best shorter life by Holmes. Among the very many 
 studies of Emerson, the best are " Emerson as a Lec- 
 turer " in Lowell's My Study Windows ; the chapter on 
 Emerson in Stedman's Poets of America; Whipple's 
 Recollections of Eminent Men (all the above published, 
 Houghton) ; Curtis' Literary and Social Essays (Har- 
 per); and Alcott's Genius and Character of Emerson 
 and Concord Days (Roberts). The Riverside Edition 
 
THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD. 19 
 
 of Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne (Houghton) is 
 by far the most satisfactory one yet issued. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A. Essays. 
 Nature, 
 
 Essays. First and second series. 
 Representative Men. 
 
 B. Addresses. 
 
 '^ The Fortune of the Republic.'' 
 " The Young American.'' 
 ^•The American Scholar." 
 
 ^^ American Civilization." 
 
 C. Biographical Studies. 
 
 " Margaret FuUer." 
 
 " Henry David Thoreau." 
 
 "Abraham Lincoln." 
 
 D. Letters. 
 The Carlyle-Emerson Correspondence. 
 
 E. Poems. 
 
 " The Concord Hymn." 
 "• The Snowstorm." 
 "TheRhodora." 
 "The Humble Bee." 
 "Woodnotes." 
 "Each and All." 
 " The Problem." 
 " Threnody." 
 " The Oversoul." 
 "Hamatreya." 
 
20 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 
 
 "Brahma.'^ (See interpretation, by Eichardson, ii, 163.) 
 '' The World Soul/' 
 '^ Terminus.'' 
 
 2. Henry David Thoreau. 
 Authorities. — Standard life of Thoreau by San- 
 born ; see also Page's Life and Aims of H. D, Thoreau, 
 Best studies of Thoreau by Emerson ; by Lowell in My 
 Study Windows; by Burroughs in Indoor Studies, (All, 
 Houghton.) 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 
 
 Walden. v 
 
 The Maine Woods. , 
 
 Early Spring in Massachusetts. 
 
 ^^The Succession of Forest Trees." 
 
 " Wild Apples." 
 
 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Hawthorne is 
 that by his son, Julian Hawthorne (Houghton). See 
 also biographies by Conway (Scribner), James (Harper), 
 and the sketch by Fields in Yesterdays with Authors 
 (Houghton). Among the best criticisms are those by 
 Curtis in Literary and Social Essays ; by Richardson in 
 his History of American Literature ; and by R. H. Hut- 
 ton in Essays in Literary Criticism (Coates). 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Autobiographical. 
 
 Introduction to The Scarlet Letter, v 
 "The Old Manse." ^ 
 
 American Note Books. 
 
THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD. 21 
 
 B. Sketches and Studies. 
 
 " Sunday at Home.V 
 
 " Little Annie's Ramble.'^ 
 
 " A Rill from the Town Pump.'\ 
 
 " Toll Gatherer's Day.'' 
 
 '- Snowflakes." ^ 
 
 ^' Main Street/' 
 
 " Sights from a Steeple." 
 
 " Night Sketches from under an Umbrella.'' 
 
 '^ Buds and Bird Voices." 
 
 C. Tales of New England. 
 
 ^^The Gentle Boy." 
 ^'The Gray Champion."^ 
 "Legends of the Province House." 
 "Endicott and the Red Cross." 
 
 D. Allegories. 
 
 "Ethan Brand." 
 
 " The Threefold Destiny." 
 
 "Wakefield." 
 
 " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment." 
 
 "The HoUow of Three Hills." 
 
 "The Great Carbimcle." 
 
 "The Great Stone Face."> 
 
 " The Ambitious Guest." 
 
 "The Minister's Black Veil." 
 
 E. Romances. 
 
 The Scarlet Letter. ^ 
 The House of the Seven Gables. - 
 The Blithedale Romance, v 
 The Marble Faun. 
 
22 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 
 
 F. Juvenile. 
 
 The Whole History of Grandfather^ s Chair, 
 The Wonder Book. 
 
 Tangleivood Tales. 
 
 II. The Cambridge Group. 
 
 Authorities. — Lowell's ''Cambridge Thirty Years 
 Ago"; Holmes' Poet at the Breakfast Tahle^ p. 10 
 (Houghton). See also Pattee's American Literature^ 
 p. 257. 
 
 THE HARVARD POETS. 
 
 I. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Longfellow is 
 that by the poet's brother, Samuel Longfellow; the 
 best shorter life is Underwood's. Best studies of 
 Longfellow in Stedman's Poets of America^ Whipple's 
 JEssays and Reviews (all Houghton), and Curtis' Liter- 
 ary and Social Essays. The Riverside Edition of 
 Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell is by all means the 
 most satisfactory. 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Prose Works. 
 
 Oiitre-Mer. 
 
 Hyperion. 
 
 Kavanagh. 
 
 B. Lyrics and Songs. 
 
 Voices of the Night. 
 
 ^^The Vmage Blacksmith.'' ^ 
 
 " The Rainy Day.'^ 
 
THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD, 23 
 
 ^^ Maidenhood." 
 
 "• Excelsior.'' 
 
 "• The Arsenal at Springfield.'^ 
 
 ^^The Belfry of Bruges." 
 
 " The Bridge.": 
 
 " The Day is Done." 
 
 " My Lost Youth." ^ 
 
 " The Old Clock on the Stairs.'\ 
 
 ^^The Arrow and the Song.'\ 
 
 '' Flower de Luce." 
 
 "The Builders."* 
 
 "The Ladder of St. Augustine."* 
 
 C. Idyls and Epics. 
 
 " Evangeline." 
 
 "The Courtship of Miles Standish."N 
 
 "Hiawatha."^ 
 
 D. Translations. 
 
 "Beware."^ 
 
 "The Castle by the Sea."» 
 
 "' Song of the Silent Land." 
 " Forsaken." 
 
 E. Ballads. 
 
 "The Skeleton in Armor." ^ 
 " The Wreck of the Hesperus.'' 
 "Paul Revere's Ride."% 
 
 " King Eobert of Sicily." 
 
 " A Ballad of the French Fleet." 
 
 F. Sonnets. 
 
 " Three Friends of Mine." 
 
 " Chaucer." 
 
 " Shakespeare." 
 
24 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 ^^ Milton." 
 
 '' Keats." 
 
 '' The Sound of the Sea." 
 
 '' The Tides," 
 
 '' Sleep." 
 
 ^' The Old Bridge at Florence.'' 
 
 " Nature." 
 
 " Venice." 
 
 " The Broken Oar." 
 
 ^^ Victor and Vanquished." 
 
 '' My Books." 
 
 G. Longer Poems. 
 
 '^The Building of the Ship."* 
 ^^Morituri Salutamus." 
 
 '' Keramos." 
 
 " The Hanging of the Crane." 
 
 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Holmes is by 
 J. T. Morse, Jr. For a bibliography of autobiographi- 
 cal readings, see Pattee's American Literature^ p. 275. 
 Best critical estimates by Stedman in Poets of America ; 
 Curtis' Literary and Social Essays^ and Whipple's 
 American Literature. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Poetry. 
 
 A, Historical axd Patriotic. 
 
 '' Old Ironsides." 
 
 "Grandmother's Story of the Bunker Hill Battle." 
 
 "Ballad of the Boston Tea Party." 
 
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THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD, 25 
 
 " The Flower of Liberty." 
 ^' God save the Flag." 
 '' Union and Liberty." 
 
 B. Humorous. 
 
 ^^The Ballad of the Oysterman." 
 
 ^^The Comet." 
 
 " The Height of the Ridiculous." 
 
 '' The Deacon's Masterpiece." 
 
 " How the Old Horse won the Bet." 
 
 " Parson Truell's Legacy." 
 
 " The Broomstick Train." 
 
 C In Graver Mood. 
 
 ^^The Last Leaf." 
 
 '' The Chambered Nautilus." 
 
 '' The Living Temple." 
 
 " Voiceless." 
 
 '^ Sun and Shadow." 
 
 " The Silent Melody." 
 
 "Avis." 
 
 "Iris." 
 
 " Under the Violets." 
 
 D. Occasional. 
 Poems of the Class of 1829. 
 
 Prose. 
 
 E. The Autocrat Series. 
 
 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. * 
 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, * 
 Tlie Poet at the Breakfast Table. 
 Over the Teacups. ^ 
 
26 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 F. Novels. 
 
 Elsie Venner. ^ 
 
 The Guardian Angel. 
 
 A Mortal Anti])athy. 
 
 G. Biographies. 
 
 John Lothrop Motley. 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
 3. James Russell Lowell. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Lowell, by 
 Woodberry, is announced by Houghton ; among other 
 authorities may be mentioned Lowell's Letters (Har- 
 per) and Underwood's Life of Lowell (Houghton). 
 Best critical estimates by Stedman in Poets of America ; 
 Whipple in Outlooks on Society ; and Curtis in Literary 
 and Social Essays. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Poetry. 
 
 A. Nature Lyrics. 
 
 ^^ An Indian Summer Reverie." 
 
 ^^To the Dandelion. 'i 
 
 " The First Snow FaU.'' (Cf . Emerson's " The Snowstorm.'') 
 
 " Under the Willows." 
 
 "Pictures from Appledore." 
 
 B. Humorous and Dialect Poems. 
 
 " A Fable for Critics." 
 The Biglow Papers. - 
 
THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD. 27 
 
 C. Poems of Culture. 
 
 ^^The Vision of Sir Launfal." 
 
 ^^The Legend of Brittany." 
 
 " Ehoecus." 
 
 " A Glance behind the Curtain." 
 
 " Columbus." 
 
 ^^The Cathedral." 
 
 D. National Odes. 
 
 " The Commemoration Ode." 
 
 " The Concord Ode." 
 " The Centennial Ode." 
 ^^ Under the Old Elm." 
 
 Prose. 
 
 A. Essays and Studies. 
 
 "Chaucer."^ 
 " Keats." 
 " Dante." 
 " Thoreau." '^ 
 ^^ Lincoln." 
 
 B. Sketches. 
 
 " My Garden Acquaintance." 
 "A Good Word for Winter." 
 "A Moosehead Journal." 
 "At Sea." 
 
 C. Addresses. 
 
 " Democracy."^ 
 
 " Books and Libraries." 
 
28 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 
 
 THE HISTORIANS. 
 
 I. William Hickling Prescott. 
 
 Authorities. — Standard life by Ticknor (Lippin- 
 cott). Best critical estimates by Whipple in Essays 
 and Reviews and by Richardson, i, 494. Prescott's 
 works published by Lippincott. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. 
 
 The Conquest of Mexico. 
 The Conquest of Peru, 
 
 2. George Bancroft. 
 
 Authorities. — Richardson, i, 459. Bancroft's 
 works published by Appleton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 History of the United States. (1492-1789.) '- 
 
 3. John Lothrop Motley. 
 
 Authorities. — Holmes' Life of Motley; Corre- 
 spondence of John Lothrop Motley^ edited by Curtis 
 (Harper). Motley's works published by Harper. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 
 The United Netherlands, 
 
THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD. 29 
 
 4 . Francis Parkman. 
 
 Authorities. — Famam's Life 0/ Par A:man (Little). 
 A life by Fiske is announced by Houghton. See 
 Vedder's American Writers of To-day (Silver). Park- 
 man's works published by Little. 
 
 READINGS. 
 The Oregon Trail. 
 
 Pioneers of France in the Neio World. 
 
 The Jesuits in North America. 
 
 La Salle; or the Discovery of the Great West. 
 
 TJie Old Regime in Canada. 
 
 Count Frontenac; or Neio France under Louis XIV. 
 
 A Half Century of Conflict. 
 
 Montcalm and "Wolfe. 
 
 The Conspiracy of Fontiac. 
 
 III. The Antislayery Group. 
 
 I. John G. Whittier. 
 
 Authorities. — Standard life of Whittier by Pack- 
 ard (Houghton); other excellent biographies by Lin- 
 ton (Scribner); and by Underwood (Houghton). Best 
 critical estimates of Whittier by Stedman in Poets of 
 America; Whipple in Essays and Reviews; and Rich- 
 ardson, ii, 173. 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Antislayery Lyrics. 
 
 "The Virginia Slave Mother's Lament.'^ . 
 "Ichabod." 
 
 "The Pine Tree.'' 
 " Our State.'' 
 "Laus Deo." 
 
#^ 
 
 30 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 B. New England Idyls. 
 
 "^^Snow-Bound."^ 
 ^' The Barefoot Boy.'\ 
 " In School Days.'' 
 " Telling the Bees." 
 ^^Maud Muller.'\ 
 " Among the Hills." 
 
 C. Ballads. 
 
 '' Pentucket." 
 
 "The Norsemen." 
 
 " The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis." ^ 
 
 "The Garrison of Cape Ann." 
 
 " Cobbler Keezar's Vision." 
 
 " The Double-headed Snake of Newbury." 
 
 "Cassandra Southwick." 
 
 " The Exiles." 
 
 " The King's Missive." 
 
 " How the Women went from Dover." 
 
 "Mary Garvin." 
 
 " John Underhill." 
 
 "The Witch's Daughter." 
 
 " Parson Avery's Swan Song." 
 
 "The Palatine." 
 
 "Abraham Davenport." 
 
 "Amy Wentworth." 
 
 " The Wreck of Rivermouth." 
 
 D. Nature Lyrics. 
 
 Prelude to Among the Hills, 
 "The Lumbermen."* 
 "The Huskers."- 
 "The Pumpkin." 
 
THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD. 31 
 
 ^^The Merrimack."^ 
 '' Our River." 
 " Mountain Pictures." 
 '^ Sunset on Bearcamp." 
 '' The Tent on the Beach." 
 ^' Hampton Beach." 
 
 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
 
 Authorities. — Life by C. E. Stowe (Houghton); 
 best criticism by Richardson. The only uniform edi- 
 tion of Mrs. Stowe is the Riverside, published by 
 Houghton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A. Antislavery Novels. 
 
 Uncle Tom's Cabin. ^ 
 Dred. 
 
 B. New England Tales. 
 
 Oldtown Folks. 
 
 Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories. 
 The Minister's Wooing. 
 The Pearl of Orr's Island, 
 
 3. Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Authorities. — The standard life of Lincoln is by 
 J. G. Nicolay and John Hay. See Lowell's My Study 
 Windows^ and Richardson, i, 238-242. 
 
 The Inaugural Addresses. 
 
 The Gettysburg Address. (Johnston's American Orations, 
 Holt.)' 
 
32 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 V. THE PRESENT. 
 
 Authorities. — Pattee's American Literature^ 345 
 (Silver). Matthews' Introduction to American Litera- 
 ture (Am. Bk.). 
 
 THE LATER POETS. 
 
 1. Walt Whitman. 
 
 Authorities. — Life by Clark (Macmillan) ; Walt 
 Whitman : a Study., by Burroughs (Houghton) ; Auto- 
 biographia^ selections from Whitman's writings (Web- 
 ster). For an able and appreciative estimate see 
 Stedman's Poets of America; for a less optimistic 
 review see Richardson's American Literature. Whit- 
 man's works published by McKay. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 " Walt Whitman/' 
 
 " The Ox Tamer." 
 
 " Mannahatta.'' 
 
 " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.'' 
 
 " Come up from the Fields, Father.'' 
 
 " Dirge for Two Veterans." 
 
 " The Man-of-War Bird." 
 
 " Captain, My Captain." 
 
 November Boughs. 
 
 Drum Taps. 
 
 2. Bayard Taylor. 
 
 Authorities. — Standard life by Hansen and Scud- 
 der ; see also life by Smyth. Best critical estimate by 
 
THE PRESENT. 33 
 
 Stedman in Poets of America (all, Houghton) ; Taylor's 
 poems published by Houghton ; prose published by 
 Putnam. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Prose. 
 
 A. Books of Travel. 
 
 Views Afoot. 
 
 Eldorado. 
 
 A Journey to Central Africa. 
 
 By-ways of Europe. 
 
 B, Novels. 
 
 The Story of Kennett. 
 Hannah Thurston, 
 
 Poetry. 
 
 C. EOMANCES AND LyRICS. 
 
 " Metempsychosis of the Pine.'^ 
 
 " Proposal." 
 
 '^ Euphorion.'' 
 
 '^Autumn Pictures." 
 
 Poems of the Orient. 
 
 " The Poet in the East." 
 
 " Desert Hymn to the Sun." 
 
 ^^ Nubia." 
 
 '' Bedouin Song." (Cf. Shelley's "Lines to an Indian Air.") 
 
 " To a Persian Boy." 
 
 "On the Sea." 
 
 "L'Envoi.", 
 
 D. Home Pastorals and Ballads. 
 
 "The Quaker Widow." 
 
 " The Holly Tree." 
 
1 
 
 34 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 "- The Old Pennsylvania Farmer." 
 
 '' August." 
 
 " Lars ; A Pastoral of Norway." 
 
 E. Dramatic Poems. 
 
 " The Picture of St. John." 
 " The Masque of the Gods." 
 "Prince Deucalion." 
 
 3. Richard Henry Stoddard. 
 
 Authorities. — N^^A.^x'^ American Writers of To 
 c?a^ (Silver) ; Stedman's Poets of America; and Rich- 
 ardson's American Literature, Stoddard's poems pub- 
 lished by Scribner. 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Poetry. 
 
 " The Search for Persephone." 
 
 " Hymn to the Sea." 
 
 " The Flight of Youth." 
 
 " The Two Brides." 
 
 " Irreparable." 
 
 " At Eest." 
 
 " The Dead." 
 
 " Pain in Autumn." 
 
 "Up in the Trees." 
 
 " Songs Unsvmg." 
 
 " Out of the Deeps." 
 
 B. Prose. 
 
 Memoir of E. A. Poe. Prefixed to edition of Poe's Works. 
 (Armstrong.) 
 
THE PRESENT. 35 
 
 4. Edmund Clarence Stedman. 
 
 Authorities. — Vedder's American Writers of To- 
 day ; Richardson, ii, 256 ; Pattee's American Litera- 
 ' ture^ p. 364. Stedman's works published by Houghton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A. Poetry. 
 
 *^The Wedding Day." 
 
 " The Undiscovered Country." 
 
 " The Discoverer/*' 
 
 ^^The Doorstep." 
 
 " Country Sleighing." 
 
 " The Heart of New England." 
 
 '' Fuit Ilium." 
 
 " Pan in WaU Street." 
 
 " Hawthorne." 
 
 B. LiTEKARY Criticism. 
 
 The Victorian Poets. 
 The Poets of America. 
 
 5. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 
 
 AiJTHOEiTiES. — Vedder's American Writers of To- 
 day ; Richardson, ii, 265. Aldrich's works published 
 by Houghton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Poetry. 
 
 " An Untimely Thought." 
 " Destiny." 
 ^adentity." 
 
j 
 
 36 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. \ 
 
 "Rencontre." 
 
 "Nameless Pain.'^ 
 
 "Before the Rain." 
 
 " After the Rain." 
 
 "Castles." 
 
 "Tiger Lilies." 
 
 " Piscataqua River." 
 
 " The Voice of the Sea.'^ 
 
 "The Night W^ind." 
 
 "Dressing the Bride." 
 
 " "When the Sultan goes to Ispahan.'' 
 
 "Pepita." 
 
 " Pampinea." 
 
 " Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book." 
 
 " Sleep." 
 
 " Barberries." 
 
 " Spring in New England." 
 
 " On an Intaglio Head of Minerva." 
 
 B. Novels and Tales. 
 
 The Story of a Bad Boy. 
 Marjorie Davr and Other Stories. « 
 
 Prudence Palfrey. 
 
 6. Paul Hamilton Hayne. 
 
 Authorities. — Life of Hayne by Preston, in the 
 1885 edition of his poems (Lothrop). 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 "At Last." 
 
 "Earth Odors after Rain." 
 
 " The Little White Glove.'' 
 
THE PRESENT, 37 
 
 " My Motherland.'' 
 '^ Beyond the Potomac/' 
 " MacDonald's Eide." 
 " The Dryad of the Pine." 
 " Above the Storm." 
 " Love's Autumn." 
 
 7. Sidney Lanier. 
 
 Authorities. — Memoir by Ward prefixed to com- 
 plete edition of Lanier's poems. See also Callaway's 
 study of the poet, with select poerns (both, Scribner). 
 Lanier's works published by Scribner. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 A. Poetry. 
 
 " Hymns of the Marshes." 
 
 " Song of the Chattahoochee." 
 
 ^^The Mocking Bird." 
 
 '' Tampa Robins." 
 
 " Corn." 
 
 B. Pkose. 
 
 Tiger Lilies. (An autobiographical novel.) 
 The Science of English Verse. 
 
 8. Helen Hunt Jackson. 
 
 Authorities. — Richardson, ii, 338 ; Pattee's Ameri- 
 can Literature., 405. Mrs. Jackson's works published 
 by Roberts. 
 
38 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 
 
 READINGS. 
 A. Poetry. 
 
 '' Mazzini." 
 
 ^^ Thought.'' 
 
 " The Zone of Calms.'' 
 
 " Spinning." 
 
 '' Resurgam." 
 
 "Spring." 
 
 " My Legacy." 
 
 "My Bees." 
 
 "Joy." 
 
 B, Prose. 
 Ramona. 
 
 THE ESSAYISTS. 
 
 1. George William Curtis. 
 
 Authorities. — Life of Curtis by Carey (Hough- 
 ton) ; Richardson, i, 380. Curtis' works published by 
 Harper. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Nile Notes of a Howadji. 
 Essays from the Easy Chair. 
 Literary and Social Essays. 
 Prue and I. ^ 
 
 2. Donald Grant Mitchell. 
 
 Authorities. — Richardson, i, 371 ; Beers' Initial 
 Studies, Mitchell's works published by Scribner. 
 
THE PRESENT. 39 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Reveries of a Bachelor « 
 
 Dream Life. *■ 
 
 My Farm of Edgewood. 
 
 American Lands and Letters, 
 
 3. Charles Dudley Warner. 
 
 Authorities. — Vedder's American Writers of To- 
 day; Richardson, i, 395. Warner's works, published 
 by Houghton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Being a Boy. 
 
 My Summer in a Garden. ^ 
 
 Back Log Studies.^ 
 
 My Winter on the Nile.% 
 
 Washington Irving. 
 
 A Little Journey in the WoiM. ^ 
 
 4. John Burroughs. 
 
 Authorities. — F Sittee' s America7i Literature^ p. 460. 
 Riverside Edition of Burroughs published by Houghton. 
 
 READINGS. 
 
 Wake-Robin. 
 
 Winter Sunshine. 
 Birds and Poets. 
 Locusts and Wild Honey. 
 Pepacton. 
 Riverhy. 
 
40 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 COURSE 11. 
 
 Contemporary American Fiction, 
 
 I. THE REALISTS. 
 
 Authorities. — Howells' Criticism and Fiction (Har- 
 per); Vedder's American Writers of To-day (Silver); 
 Pattee's American Literature., p. 424. 
 
 I. William Dean Howells. 
 
 Their Wedding Journey. (Houghton.) ^ 
 The Rise of Silas Lapham. (Houghton.) 
 A Modern Instance. (Houghton.) 
 A Hazard of New Fortunes. (Harper.) 
 The Quality of Mercy. (Harper.) 
 ^ Indian Summer. (Houghton.) 
 The Mouse Trap, and Other Farces. (Harper.) 
 
 2. Henry James. 
 
 Roderick Hudson. (Houghton.) 
 "^ Daisy Miller. (Harper.) 
 
 Portrait of a Lady. (Houghton.) 
 Princess Casamassima. (Macmillan.) 
 
 II. NOVELISTS OF THE SOIL. 
 
 The naturalistic school that aims to depict with 
 minuteness peculiar environments and personalities. 
 A branch of the realistic school. The ideas of this 
 group have dominated the fiction of the period. 
 
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION, 
 
 41 
 
 A, Studies of New England Life. 
 I. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
 
 V 
 
 Oldtown Polks. 
 
 Sam Lcujjson^s Fireside Stoi^ies. 
 The Minister's Wooing. 
 "^ The Pearl of Orr^s Island. 
 
 (Houghton.) 
 
 2. John Townsend Trowbridge. 
 
 Neighbor Jackwood. ] 
 Coupon Bonds. j- (Lee.) 
 
 Ciidjo's Cave. J 
 
 3. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 
 Malbone, an Oldport Romance. (Lee.) 
 
 4. Rose Terry Cooke. 
 
 Huckleberries, Gathered from New England Hills. 
 
 Steadfast . (Houghton . ) 
 
 5. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 
 
 Dr. Zay. 
 
 The Silent Partner. 
 
 The Story of Avis. ^ (Houghton.) 
 
 Jack the Fisherman. 
 
 A Singular Life. j 
 
 6. Sarah Orne Jewett. 
 
 Deephaven. 
 ' A Country Doctor. 
 Country By-ways. 
 
 Tlie Mate of the Daylight. 
 
 (Houghton.) 
 
42 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 7. Mary Eleanor Wilkins. 
 
 A Humble Romance. 
 A Ne'w England Nun 
 Jane Field. 
 Pembroke. 
 
 (Harper.) 
 
 8. Rowland E. Robinson. 
 
 Danvis Folks. (Houghton.) 
 
 9. Philander Deming. 
 
 Adirondack Stories. (Houghton.) 
 Tompkins and Other Folks. (Houghton.) 
 
 10. Mary Catherine Lee. 
 
 A Quaker Girl of Nantucket. (Houghton.) 
 
 11. Sally Pratt McLean. 
 
 ^' Cape Cod Folks. (De Wolfe.) 
 
 12. Alice Brown. 
 
 Poverty Grass. (Houghton.) 
 
 B. Studies of Southern Life. 
 
 I. John Esten Cooke. 
 
 The Virginia Comedians. (Appleton.) 
 Stories of the Old Dominion. (Harper.) 
 
 2. Constance Fenimore Woolson. 
 
 Rodman the Keeper. ] 
 
 Castle Noivhere. [ (Harper.) 
 
 Anne. J 
 
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION, 43 
 
 3. Joel Chandler Harris. 
 
 On^ie Plantation. (Appleton.) 
 
 Nights with Uncle Remus. (Houghton.) ^ 
 
 4. Thomas Nelson Page. 
 
 In Ole Virginia. 1 /q k \ 
 
 On Newfound River, J[ ^ '' 
 
 5. George Washington Cable. 
 
 Old Creole Days. 
 The Grandissimes. 
 Madame Delphine. 
 "^ Dr. Sevier. 
 Bonaventure. 
 
 (Scribner.) 
 
 6. Mary Noailles Murfree (** Charles Egbert Craddock *'). 
 
 "^ -^ In the Tennessee Mountains. (Houghton.) 
 The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains. 
 
 The Despot of Broomsedge Cove. (Houghton.) 
 In the Stranger People^ s Country. (Harper.) 
 
 7. Richard Malcolm Johnston. 
 
 The Primes and their Neighbors ; Tales of Georgia. 
 Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams. (Appleton.) 
 
 8. Francis Hopkinson Smith. 
 Colonel Carter of Cartersville. (Houghton.) » 
 
 9. Harry Stillwell Edwards. 
 Tivo Runaways. (Century.) 
 
 10. James Lane Allen. 
 A Kentucky Cardinal. (Harper.) . 
 
44 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 
 
 II. Amelie Rives. 
 Virginia of Virginia. (Harper.) 
 
 C Studies of Western Life. 
 
 I. Francis Bret Harte. 
 
 The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches. 
 In the Carquinez Woods. 
 Gabriel Conroy. 
 ' Tales of the Argonauts, i 
 Snow-hound at Eaglets, j 
 
 (Houghton.) 
 
 2. Helen Hunt Jackson (**H. H.*')- 
 Ramona. (Roberts.) 
 
 3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (**Mark Twain"). 
 
 Innocents Abroad. 
 Roughing It. 
 
 Life on the Mississippi. 
 Adventures of Tom Sawyer. • 
 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 
 The Prince and the Pauper. j 
 
 4. Edward Eggleston. 
 
 The Circuit Rider. ] 
 
 The Hoosier Schoolmaster. ! .^ ., 
 
 Roxy. \ (Scnbner.) 
 
 \ (Harper.) 
 
 The End of the World. 
 
 5. Hamlin Garland. 
 
 Main Traveled Roads. 1 
 Prairie Folks. j (S*°^^-) 
 
vi 
 
 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION 45 
 
 6. Mary Hallock Foote. 
 
 Coeur d ^Alene. 1 
 
 John BodewMs Testimony, v (Houghton.) 
 
 The Led-Horse Claim. 
 
 7. Alice French (*' Octave Thanet*'). 
 
 BCnitters in the Sun. (Houghton.) 
 Stories of a Western Toivn, (Scribner.) 
 
 D, Studies of City Life. 
 I. H. C. Bunner. 
 Story of a New York House. (Scribner.) 
 
 2. Mrs. Burton Harrison. 
 The Anglomaniacs. (C as sell.) 
 
 3. Henry B. Fuller. 
 The Cliff Dwellers. (Harper.) 
 
 4. Julian Ralph. 
 People that we Pass. (Harper.) 
 
 V 
 
 5. Charles Dudley Warner. 
 
 A Little Journey in the "World. 
 
 The Golden House. (Harper.) 
 
 6. Harold Frederic. 
 
 Seth's Brother's Wife. 
 
 The Copperhead. - (Scribner.) 
 
 The Damnation of Theron Ware. . 
 
46 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 7. Richard Harding Davis. 
 
 Gallegher and Other Stories. (Scribner.) •* 
 Van Bibber and Others. (Harper.) 
 
 8. Brander Matthews. 
 Vignettes of Manhattan. (Harper.) 
 
 III. THE IDEALISTS. 
 I. Dr. W. H. Bishop. 
 
 Detmold. 
 
 The House of a Merchant Prince 
 
 > (Houghton.) 
 
 2. Hjalmar H. Boyesen. 
 
 Gunnar : A Tale of Norse Life. 
 
 Norseland Stories. (Scribner.) 
 
 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett. 
 
 That Lass o' Lowrie's. ) /o. i 
 
 1^ ...7 -r 1 -n .1 } (Scribner.) 
 
 Little Lord Fauntleroy. ) ^ 
 
 4. F. Marion Crawford. 
 
 Mr. Isaacs. 
 
 A Roman Singer. 
 
 Saracinesca. 
 
 Sanf Ilario, 
 
 Don Orsino. 
 
 (Macmillan.) 
 
 5. Margaret Deland. 
 John Ward, Preacher. 
 
 Sidr^ey. ' (Houghton.) 
 
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION. 47 
 
 6. Arthur Sherburne Hardy. 
 
 But Yet a Woman. 1 .^t i 
 Passe-Rose. \ (H^^g^^ton.) 
 
 7. Josiah Gilbert Holland. 
 
 Arthur Bonnicastle. 1 ,0. -i 
 
 o 7 I- (Scnbner.) 
 
 oevenoaks. j ^ '^ 
 
 8. Blanche Willis Howard. 
 
 Guenii. 
 
 One Summer. 
 
 (Houghton.) 
 
 9. S. Weir Mitchell. 
 
 Characteristics. ^ /p f \ 
 
 When all the Woods are Green, j '^'^ 
 
 tfiUX WV-^ ^vJL ^t^ 
 
 10. Edward Payson Roe. 
 
 Barriers Burned A^way. 
 
 Opening of a Chestnut Burr. 
 Near to Nature^s Heart. 
 
 (Dodd.) 
 
 II. Julian Hawthorne. 
 
 Bressant. (Appleton.) 
 
 Archibald Malmaison. 1 
 
 Idolatry. \ (Houghton.) 
 
 Fortune^ s Fool. 
 
 12. Frederick J. Stimson. 
 
 Guernclale. ^ /q 'k 
 
 The Crime of Henry Vane, j ^ '^ 
 
 13. Theodore Winthrop. 
 
 Cecil Dreeme. 1 ,-, . . • 1 v 
 
 John Brent, j (International.) 
 
48 READING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 IV. HISTORICAL NOVELS. 
 
 I. Jane G. Austin. 
 Betty Alden. 
 
 Dr. Le Baron and his Daughters. 
 Standish of Standish. 
 
 (Houghton.) 
 
 2. Edwin Lassetter Bynner. 
 
 Agnes Surriage. 
 
 »„. « , ,> 1.^ 1 (Houghton.) 
 
 The Begum's Daughter. ' ^ ° ^ 
 
 3. Mary H. Catherwood. 
 
 The Romance of Dollar d. 1 
 
 The White Islander. j (^^^^^^yO 
 
 Old Kaskaskia. (Houghton.) 
 
 4. Lew Wallace. 
 
 The Fair God. (Houghton.) 
 
 Ben Hur : A Tale of the Christ. (Harper.) ^ 
 
AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. 49 
 
 COUESE III. 
 
 A Brief Course in American Short Stories, 
 
 The short story, now one of the most common forms 
 of literary expression, has been brought nearest to per- 
 fection by American writers. It has become recognized 
 as a distinct literary form, with laws as sharply defined 
 as those governing the composition of lyric poetry. 
 See Matthews' Pen and Ink (Harper), and Vedder's 
 American Writers of To-day. Index (Silver). 
 
 I. Washington Irving. 
 
 ^^Rip Van Winkle.'' ^ 
 
 ^^The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.", 
 
 2. Edgar Allan Poe. 
 
 "The Gold Bug.". 
 
 " The Murders in the Rue Morgue.'l 
 
 " The FaU of the House of Usher."* 
 
 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 
 "Ethan Brand." 
 "The Birth Mark." 
 
 " The Great Stone Face.". 
 " Lady Eleanor's Mantle." 
 
 4. Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 "The Man without a Country. "*• 
 
 " My Double and How he Undid me." 
 
50 HEADING COURSES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 
 
 5. Fitz- James O'Brien. 
 " The Diamond Lens.'' 
 
 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 
 ^^Marjorie Davr.'l 
 
 7. Francis Bret Harte. 
 
 "The Luck of Roaring Camp.". 
 
 " The Outcasts of Poker Flat.'^ 
 
 " How Santa Glaus came to Simpson's Bar." 
 
 8. Frank Richard Stockton. 
 "The Lady or the Tiger? '' 
 
 9. George Washington Cable. 
 
 " Posson Jone." 
 
 " Madame Delphine." 
 
 10. Harriet Prescott Spofford. 
 
 "The Amber Gods." 
 "Midsummer and May." 
 
 II. Philander Deming. 
 
 "Lida Ann." 
 
 12. Thomas Nelson Page. 
 
 " Meh Lady." ' 
 " Marse Chan." . 
 
 13. Mary Noailles Murfree (" Charles Egbert Craddock"). 
 
 " Drifting down Lost Creek." 
 
 " The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove.'^ 
 
AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. 61 
 
 14. Sarah Orne Jewett. 
 
 " A White Heron." 
 
 " Miss Tempy's Watchers." 
 
 15. Mary Eleanor Wilkins. 
 
 " The Revolt of Mother." 
 " An Humble Romance." 
 
 16. Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 
 
 " The Jumping Frog." . 
 
 17. Constance Fenimore Woolson. 
 
 '' Castle Nowhere." 
 '' Peter the Parson." 
 
 18. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 
 "Jack the Fisherman." 
 
 19. Henry Cuyler Bunner. 
 
 "LoveinOldCloathes." 
 
 20. Richard Harding Davis. 
 "Gallegher." - 
 
INDEX OF AUTHORS, 
 
 Adams, J., 8. 
 Adams, S., 8. 
 Alcott, A. B., 18. 
 Aldrich, T. B., 35-3G, 50. 
 Allen, J. L., 43. 
 Austin, J. G., 48. 
 
 Bancroft, G., 28. 
 Barlow, J., 8, 10. 
 Beers, H., 9, 15, 18, 38. 
 Bigelow, J., 13. 
 Bishop, W. H., 46. 
 Boyesen, H. H., 46. 
 Bradford, W., 7. 
 Bradstreet, A. , 7. 
 Brown, A., 42. 
 Brown, C. B., 9, 10. 
 Bryant, W. C, 10, 13-14, 15. 
 Bunner, H. C, 45, 51. 
 Burnett, F. H., 46. 
 Burroughs, J. , 20, 32, 39. 
 Bynner, E. L., 48. 
 
 Cable, G. W., 43, 50. 
 Cabot, J. E., 18. 
 Carey, E., 38. 
 Callaway, M., 37. 
 Catherwood, M. H., 48. 
 Clark, W., 32. 
 Clemens, S. L., 44, 51. 
 Conway, M. D., 9, 20. 
 Cooke, J. E., 42. 
 
 Cooke, R. T., 41. 
 Cooper, J. F., 10, 12-13. 
 Cooper, S. F., 12. 
 ^'Craddock, C. E.," 43, 50. 
 Crawford, F. M., 46. 
 Curtis, G. T., 16. 
 
 Curtis, G. W., 11, 18, 20, 22, 24, 
 26, 28, 38. 
 
 Davis, R. H., 46, 51. 
 Deland, M., 46. 
 Deming, P. , 42, 50. 
 Drake, J. R., 15. 
 Duyckinck, E., 10. 
 Dwight, T., 9, 10. 
 
 Edwards, H. S. , 43. 
 Edwards, J., 8. 
 Eggleston, E.,44. 
 Eggleston, G. C, 9. 
 Emerson R. W., 11, 18-20. 
 
 Farnham, C. H., 29. 
 Fields, J. T., 20. 
 Fisher, G. P., 7. 
 Fiske, J., 8, 29. 
 Foote, M, H., 45. 
 Franklin, B., 8. 
 Frederic, H., 45. 
 French, A., 45. 
 Freneau, P., 9,10. 
 Frothingham, O. B., 18. 
 Fuller, H. B., 45. 
 
 53 
 
64 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Garland, H. , 44. 
 
 Godwin, P., 13. ^ 
 
 "H. H.," 37-38, 44. 
 
 Hale, E. E., 49. 
 
 Halleck, F., 15. 
 
 Hamilton, A., 8, 9. 
 
 Hansen, M., 32. 
 
 Hardy, A. S., 47. 
 
 Harris, J. C, 43. 
 
 Harrison, Mrs. B., 45. 
 
 Harte, F. B., 44, 50. 
 
 Hawthorne, J., 19, 20, 47. 
 
 Hawthorne, N., 20-22, 49. 
 
 Hay, J., 31. 
 
 Hayne, P., 36-37. 
 
 Henry, P., 8, 9. 
 
 Higginson, T. W., 41. 
 
 Holland, J. G., 47. 
 
 Holmes, O. W., 8, 18, 22,24-26, 
 
 28. 
 Howard, B. W., 47. 
 Howells, W. D., 40. 
 Button, R. H., 20. 
 
 Irving, P. M., 11. 
 Irving, W., 10-12, 49. 
 
 Jackson, H. H., 37-38, 44. 
 James, H., 20, 40. 
 Jay, J., 8. 
 Jefferson, T., 8, 9. 
 Jewett, S. O., 41,, 51. 
 Johnston, A., 9, 31. 
 Johnston, R. M., 43. 
 
 Lanier, S., 37. 
 Lee, M. C, 42. 
 Lincoln, A., 31. 
 Linton, W., 29. 
 
 Lodge, H. C, 9, 16. 
 Longfellow, H. W., 22-24. 
 Longfellow, S., 22. 
 Lounsbury, T. R., 12. 
 Lowell, J; R., 15, 18, 20, 22, 
 26-27. 
 
 Madison, J., 8. 
 Mather, C, 7. 
 Matthews, B., 32, 46, 49. 
 McLean, S. P., 42. 
 McMaster, J. B., 8. 
 Mitchell, D. G., 38-39. 
 Mitchell, S. W., 47. 
 Morse, J. T., 24. 
 Motley, J. L., 28. 
 Murfree, M. N., 43, 50. 
 
 Nicolay, J. G., 31. 
 
 O'Brien, F., 50. 
 Otis, J., 8. 
 
 Packard, S. T., 29. 
 
 Page, H. A., 20. 
 
 Page, T. N., 43, 50. 
 
 Paine, T., 9. 
 
 Parkman, F., 29. 
 
 Pattee, F., 10, 18, 22, 24, 32, 35, 
 
 37, 39, 40. 
 Phelps, E. S., 41, 51. 
 Poe, E. A., 16-17, 34, 49. 
 Porter, W. W., 9. 
 Prescott, W. H., 10, 28. 
 Preston, M., 36. 
 
 Ralph, J., 45. 
 
 Richardson, C. F., 8, 12, 15, 18, 
 20, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 
 
 38, 39. 
 Rives, A., 44. 
 
INDEX, 
 
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 Robinson, R. E., 42. 
 Roe, E. P., 47. 
 
 Sanborn, F. B., 20. 
 
 Scudder, H., 32. 
 
 Smith, F. H., 43. 
 
 Smyth, A. H., 32. 
 
 Spofford, H. P., 50. 
 
 Stedman, E. C, 13, 15, 17, 18, 22, 
 
 24, 26, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35. 
 Stimson, F. J., 47. 
 Stockton, F. R., 50. 
 Stoddard, R. H., 34. 
 Stowe, H. B., 31, 41. 
 
 Taylor, B., 32-34. 
 ^'Thanet, Octave," 45. 
 Thoreau, H. D., 19,20. 
 Ticknor, G., 28. 
 Trowbridge, J. T., 41. 
 Trumbull, J., 8, 10. 
 Tyler, M. C, 7,8,9, 10. 
 
 Underwood, F., 22, 26, 29. 
 
 Vedder, H. C, 29, 34, 35, 39, 40, 
 49. 
 
 Wallace, L., 48. 
 
 Ward, W. H., 37. 
 
 Warner, C. D., 10, 11, 39, 45. 
 
 Washington, G., 8. 
 
 Webster, 16. 
 
 Whipple, E. P., 16, 18, 22, 24, 26, 
 
 28, 29. 
 Whitman, W., 32. 
 Whittier, J. G., 29-31. 
 Wigglesworth, M., 7. 
 Wilkins, M. E.,42, 51. 
 Willis, N. P., 15. 
 Wilson, J. G., 15. 
 Winthrop, J., 7. 
 Winthrop, T.,47. 
 Wirt, W., 9. 
 Woodberry, G., 16, 26. 
 Woolson, C. F., 42, 51. 
 
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