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REFERENCE LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES.

[Some of the dates are dates of copyright, not of imprint, as access to first editions was not possible in all cases. "H. & M." stands for "Houghton, Mifflin & Co." The American Men of Letters Series, the American Statesmen Series, and the American Religious Leaders Series are published by that house. The Makers of America Series is published by Dodd, Mead & Co. For school use the Old South Leaflets (address Directors of the Old South Work, Old South Meeting-house, Boston) contain several interesting selections from the earlier writings; the Riverside Literature Series (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) supplies much material, well edited and inexpensive; the English Classics Series (Maynard, Merrill & Co.) furnishes cheap editions of several works; in Little Masterpieces (Doubleday & McClure), Poe, Hawthorne, Irving, Lincoln, Franklin, and Webster are represented; Macmillan & Co. announce, as in press or in preparation, editions of writings by some twenty authors, in their Pocket Series of American Classics; some of Phillips's speeches and lectures are published separately by Lee & Shepard; nine of Webster's orations, with notes, are published by Heath & Co; Hodgkins's leaflets (Heath & Co.) for the laboratory study of several American authors will be found helpful. For more magazine articles, consult Poole's Index; for essays, the "A. L. A." Index.]

I. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

Historical Works. - Narrative and Critical History of America, edited by Justin Winsor (H. & M., 1889; 8 vols.). The Discovery of America, by John Fiske (H. & M., 1892; 2 vols.). English Colonies in America, by J. A. Doyle (Holt, 1882-1889; 3 vols.). Old Virginia and her Neighbours, by John Fiske (H. & M., 1897; 2 vols.). Virginia, by J. E. Cooke, in American Commonwealths Series (H. & M., 1883). American History told by Contemporaries [1492-1783], edited by A. B. Hart (Macmillan, 1897; 2 vols.). The Beginnings of New England, by John Fiske (H. & M., 1889). The American Revolution, by John Fiske (H. & M., 1891; 2 vols.). The Critical Period of American History [17831789], by John Fiske (H. & M., 1888). History of the United States of America [1783-1861], by James Schouler (Dodd, Mead & Co., 18801891; 5 vols.). A History of the People of the United States [17831861], by J. B. McMaster (Appleton, 1883-1899; 5 vols. out; to be completed in 6). History of the United States [1850-1862], by J. F.

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Rhodes (Harper, 1892-1895; 3 vols.). The History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, by E. B. Andrews (Scribner, 1896; 2 vols.). Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times (Scribner, 1897; the series includes Margaret Winthrop, Martha Washington, Dorothy P. Madison, Mercy O. Warren, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Schuyler). Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times, by S. G. Fisher (Lippincott, 1897; 2 vols.). Costumes of Colonial Times, by Alice M. Earle (Scribner, 1894). Colonial Dames and Good Wives, by Alice M. Earle (H. & M., 1895). English Culture in Virginia in Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Seventh Series (Baltimore, 1889). White Aprons, a Romance of Bacon's Rebellion, by Maud W. Goodwin (Little, Brown & Co., 1896). New England Two Centuries Ago, by J. R. Lowell, in Literary Essays, Vol. II. My Lady Pokahontas, by J. E. Cooke (H. & M., 1885). Customs and Fashions in Old New England, by Alice M. Earle (Scribner, 1894). The Sabbath in Puritan New England, by Alice M. Earle (Scribner, 1891). Merry-Mount; a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, by J. L. Motley (Munroe & Co., 1848; 2 vols.). Mary Dyer the Quaker Martyr, by Horatio Rogers (Providence: Preston & Rounds, 1896). Samuel Sewall and the World he lived in, by N. H. Chamberlain (De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1897). Witchcraft, by J. R. Lowell, in Literary Essays, Vol. II. Were the Salem Witches Guiltless? and Some Neglected Characteristics of the New England Puritans, by Barrett Wendell, in Stelligeri (Scribner, 1893). Colonial Days in Old New York, by Alice M. Earle (Scribner, 1896). The Half Moon Series, Papers on Historic New York (Putnam, 1897-1898). The Governor's Garden, a Relation of Some Passages in the Life of Thomas Hutchinson, by G. R. R. Rivers (Joseph Knight, 1896). Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill (Macmillan, 1899), and Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, by S. W. Mitchell (Century Co., 1897), novels of the American Revolution. A Century of Social Betterment, by J. B. McMaster, Atlantic Monthly, January, 1897. A Boy Sixty Years Ago, by G. F. Hoar (Perry Mason & Co; reprinted from the Youth's Companion, March 10, 17, 24, 1898). Cambridge Thirty Years Ago [i.e. 1824], by J. R. Lowell, in Literary Essays, Vol. I. A History of the Unitarians in the United States, by J. H. Allen, in American Church History Series, Vol. X. (New York: Christian Literature Co., 1894). Transcendentalism in New England, by O. B. Frothingham (Putnam, 1876). The New England Reformers, by R. W. Emerson, in Works, Vol. III. Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England, by R. W. Emerson, in Works, Vol. X. (the Transcendental movement). The American Scholar, by R. W. Emerson, in Works, Vol. I. The Transcendentalist, by R. W. Emerson, in Works, Vol. I. Radical Problems, by C. A. Bartol (Boston, 1872; Transcendentalism, pp. 61-97). Reminiscences of Brook Farm, by G. P. Bradford, Century Magazine, November, 1892. The Old South, Essays Social and Political, by T. N. Page (Scribner,

1892). Southern Sidelights, by Edward Ingle (Crowell, 1896; No. X., in Library of Economics and Politics, edited by R. T. Ely). The Peculiarities of the South, by Professor N. S. Shaler, North American Review, October, 1890.

Histories of American Literature. - A History of American Literature, 1607-1765, by M. C. Tyler (Putnam, 1878; 2 vols.; Agawam edition, I vol.). The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763– 1783, by M. C. Tyler (Putnam, 1897; 2 vols.). American Literature, 1607-1885, by C. F. Richardson (Putnam, 1887, 1889; 2 vols.; popular edition, I vol.). American Literature: an Historical Sketch, 16201880, by John Nichol, professor in the University of Glasgow (A. & C. Black, 1882). Early Poetry of the Provinces, now Part of the United States, by J. F. Hunnewell, in The Club of Odd Volumes, No. I. (Boston, 1894). De la Littérature et des Hommes de Lettres des États-Unis d'Amérique, par Eugène A. Vail (Paris, 1841). Geschichte der Englischen Litteratur im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert, von Karl Bleibtren (Leipzig, 1887; Die amerikanische Poesie, pp. 394-505; Bret Harte, pp. 564-572). Geschichte der Nordamerikanischen Litteratur, von Karl Knortz (Berlin, 1891; 2 vols.). Geschichte der Nordamerikanischen Litteratur, von Eduard Engel (Leipzig, 1897). Beiträge zur Amerikanischen Litteratur- und Kultur-Geschichte, von E. P. Evans (Stuttgart, 1898). Chronological Outlines of American Literature, by S. L. Whitcomb (Macmillan, 1894). American Literature and Other Papers, by E. P. Whipple (Ticknor & Co., 1887). American Literature, by C. D. Warner, in The United States of America, Vol. II. (Appleton, 1894). The History of Printing in America, by Isaiah Thomas (Albany, 1874, second edition; Vols. V., VI., of Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society). Journalism in the United States from 1690 to 1872, by Frederick Hudson (Harper, 1873). Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors, 1741-1850, by, A. H. Smyth (Lindsay, 1892). History of the American Theatre, by G. O. Seilhamer (F. P. Harper, 1896; 3 vols.). History of Oratory, by Lorenzo Sears (Griggs & Co., 1896). On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833, with especial reference to Periodicals, by W. B. Cairns (Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1898).

Biographical Cyclopædias and Dictionaries.—A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, by S. A. Allibone (Lippincott, 1858-1871; 4 vols.); Supplement, by J. F. Kirk (1891; 2 vols.). Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, edited by J. G. Wilson and John Fiske (Appleton, 1886-1889; 6 vols.). The National Cyclopædia of American Biography (White & Co., 1891; 2 vols.). A Dictionary of American Authors, by O. F. Adams (H. & M., 1897). National Portrait Gallery, by E. A. Duyckinck (New York,

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1867; 2 vols.). Reminiscences, Authors' Homes, etc. American Bookmen, by M. A. DeWolfe Howe (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1898). Bryant and his Friends,

by J. G. Wilson (Ford, Howard & Hulbert, 1886; reminiscences, etc., of Bryant, Paulding, Irving, Dana, Cooper, Halleck, Drake, Willis, Poe, Taylor, and minor "Knickerbockers "). Personal Recollections of Notable People, by C. K. Tuckerman (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1895; 2 vols.; Vol. I., Chaps. I.-III., Boston and New York Men of Letters). Recollections of a Literary Life, by Mary R. Mitford (London, 1852; 3 vols.; Chap. VI., American Poets). Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, by J. T. Fields (H. & M., 1881; reminiscences and letters of American authors). Authors and Friends, by Mrs. J. T. Fields (H. & M.; recollections of Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Mrs. Stowe, Whittier, etc.). Recollections of Eminent Men, by E. P. Whipple (Ticknor & Co., 1887; Choate, Agassiz, Emerson, Motley, Sumner, Ticknor). Essays from the Easy Chair, by G. W. Curtis (Harper, 18921894; 3 series; Everett, Emerson, Thoreau, Phillips, Bryant, Beecher, Hawthorne, and Brook Farm). Chapters from a Life, by Elizabeth S. Phelps (H. & M., 1896; reminiscences of Mrs. Stowe, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, etc.). Cheerful Yesterdays, by T. W. Higginson (H. & M., 1899; reminiscences of many men of letters). Reminiscences, by Julia Ward Howe (H. & M., 1899). Homes of American Authors, comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by G. W. Curtis and others (Putnam, 1852). Little Journeys to the Homes of American Authors, by Curtis, Hillard, Bryant, etc. (Putnam, I896). Homes and Haunts of our Elder Poets, by R. H. Stoddard, F. B. Sanborn, and H. N. Powers (Appleton, 1881). Authors at Home, edited by J. L. and J. B. Gilder (Cassell, 1888; reprinted from the Critic)..

Collections of Selections. ·Cyclopædia of American Literature [16081855], by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck (Scribner, 1855; 2 vols.; biographies, criticisms, selections). A Library of American Literature [1608-1889], edited by E. C. Stedman and E. M. Hutchinson (Webster & Co., 1887-1890; 11 vols.; Vol. XI. has brief biographies). Southern Literature [1608-1895], with Copious Extracts and Criticisms, by Louise Manly (Richmond: Johnson Publishing Co., 1895). Specimens of American Poetry [1660-1829], by Samuel Kettell (Boston, 1829; 3 vols.; biographical notices). The Poets and Poetry of America [1640–1860], by R. W. Griswold (Philadelphia, 1860; first edition, 1842; biographies, criticisms, selections). The Female Poets of America, by T. B. Read (Philadelphia, 1849; nineteenth-century authors only; short biographical notices, portraits, selections). The Female Poets of America [16501869], by R. W. Griswold (New York, 1869; first edition, 1849; revised by R. H. Stoddard; biographies, criticisms, selections). A Library of Poetry and Song, with an Introduction by W. C. Bryant (Ford & Co., 1871). American Song, a Collection of Representative American Poems, by A. B. Simonds (Putnam, 1894). The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics, edited by F. F. Knowles (Page & Co., 1898). American Sonnets, selected and edited by T. W. Higginson and E. H. Bigelow

(H. & M., 1890). Poems of American Patriotism, chosen by J. Brander Matthews (Scribner, 1882). American War Ballads and Lyrics [colonial wars to Civil War], edited by G. C. Eggleston (Putnam, 1889; Knickerbocker Nuggets Series; 2 vols.). War Songs of the South (Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862). Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative, and Satirical, of the Civil War, selected and edited by R. G. White (American News Co., 1866). Bugle-Echoes, a Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War, Northern and Southern, edited by F. F. Browne (White, Stokes & Allen, 1886; new edition). Songs and Ballads of the Southern People, 1861-1865, by Frank Moore (Appleton, 1886). War Poetry of the South, edited by W. G Simms (New York, 1867). Younger American Poets [1830-1890], edited by D. Sladen, with an Appendix of Younger Canadian Poets, edited by G. B. Roberts (Cassell, 1891). The Prose Writers of America, by R. W. Griswold (Porter & Coates, 1870; revised; first edition, 1847; biographies, criticisms, selections). Representative American Orations [1775-1881], edited by Alexander Johnston, reëdited by J. A. Woodburn (Putnam, 1896, 1897; 4 vols.).

Criticisms of Authors and Discussions of Topics. Poets of America, by E. C. Stedman (H. & M., 1885). Studies of Great Authors, from the Library of the World's Best Literature (Doubleday & McClure, 1899; 4 vols.). Short Studies of American Authors, by T. W. Higginson (Lee & Shepard, 1880; Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Howells, Helen Jackson, James). American Humorists, by H. R. Haweis (Chatto & Windus, 1883; Irving, Holmes, Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Bret Harte). My Literary Passions, by W. D. Howells (Harper, 1895; Irving, Longfellow, Mrs. Stowe, D. G. Mitchell, Lowell, Curtis, Hawthorne). American Writers of To-Day, by H. C. Vedder (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1894). The History of Historical Writing in America, by J. F. Jameson (H. & M., 1891). The Development of the Love of Romantic Scenery in America, by Mary E. Woolley, American Historical Review, October, 1897. Americanism in Literature, in Views and Reviews, by W. G. Simms (Wiley & Putnam, 1845). Americanism in Literature, in Atlantic Essays, by T. W. Higginson (Osgood, 1874). Our Literature, by J. R. Lowell, in Literary and Political Addresses. American Literature, by Barrett Wendell, in Stelligeri and Other Essays (Scribner, 1893). The Influence of Democracy on Literature; and Has America produced a Poet? in Questions at Issue, by Edmund Gosse (Appleton, 1893). Two Principles in Recent American Fiction, by J. L. Allen, Atlantic Monthly, October, 1897. Literary Emancipation of the West, by Hamlin Garland, Forum, October, 1893. The New World and the New Book, by T. W. Higginson (Lee & Shepard, 1891; essays on American literary topics). The American Historical Novel, by P. L. Ford, Atlantic Monthly, December, 1897. American Humour, in Lost Leaders, by Andrew Lang (Paul, Trench & Co., 1892). Dialect in Literature, by James Whitcomb Riley, Forum, December, 1892.

Bibliographies and Catalogues. - Bibliotheca Americana, a Dictionary

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