Reference List

Historical and Critical:

MUZZEY. American History. Ginn and Company.

HART. American History Told by Contemporaries (4 vols.). The Macmillan Company.

Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VII. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Cambridge History of American Literature (4 vols.). G. P. Putnam's Sons.
WENDELL. A Literary History of America. Charles Scribner's Sons.
TRENT. American Literature. D. Appleton and Company.
BOYNTON. American Literature. Ginn and Company.

LONG. American Literature (Ginn and Company). Other high-school texts by Halleck (American Book Company), Pace (Allyn & Bacon), Newcomer (Scott, Foresman and Company), Pancoast (Henry Holt and Company), etc.

MITCHELL. American Lands and Letters (2 vols.). Charles Scribner's Sons.
TRENT and ERSKINE. Great Writers of America (Home University Library).
Henry Holt and Company.

BURTON. Literary Leaders of America. Charles Scribner's Sons.
VINCENT. American Literary Masters. Houghton Mifflin Company.
PATTEE. History of American Literature since 1870. The Century Company.
STEDMAN. Poets of America. Houghton Mifflin Company.
BROWNELL. American Prose Masters. Charles Scribner's Sons.

DICKINSON. The Case of the American Drama. Houghton Mifflin Company.
VAN DOREN. The American Novel. The Macmillan Company.

AMY LOWELL. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. The Macmillan Company.

Collections:

NEWCOMER, ANDREWS and HALL. Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose. Scott, Foresman and Company.

CALHOUN and MACALARNEY. Readings from American Literature. Ginn

and Company.

TRENT. Southern Writers. The Macmillan Company.

MIMS. Southern Poetry and Prose. Charles Scribner's Sons.

FULTON. Southern Life in Southern Literature. Ginn and Company.

STEDMAN. An American Anthology. Houghton Mifflin Company.

BRONSON. American Poems. University of Chicago Press.
LOUNSBURY. American Poems. Yale University Press.

BOYNTON. American Poetry. Charles Scribner's Sons.

PAGE. Chief American Poets. Houghton Mifflin Company.

KNOWLES. Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics. The Page Co. LE GALLIENNE. Book of Modern American Verse. Boni & Liveright. RITTENHOUSE. Little Book of Modern Verse (first and second series). Houghton Mifflin Company.

UNTERMEYER. Modern American Poetry. Harcourt, Brace and Company.

MONROE and HENDERSON. The New Poetry, an Anthology. The Macmillan Company.

BRONSON. American Prose to 1866. University of Chicago Press.

REES. Modern American Prose Selections. Harcourt, Brace and Company. MATTHEWS. Oxford Book of American Essays. Oxford University Press. HOWELLS. The Great Modern American Stories. Boni & Liveright. QUINN. Representative American Plays. The Century Company.

MOSES. Representative Plays by American Dramatists. E. P. Dutton & Company.

DICKINSON. The Wisconsin Plays. B. W. Huebsch.

BAKER. The Harvard Plays. Brentano's.

BAKER. Modern American Plays. Harcourt, Brace and Company.

Series, Libraries, etc.:

American Men of Letters. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Everyman's Library. E. P. Dutton & Company.

School series: Riverside Literature Series (Houghton Mifflin Company). Standard English Classics (Ginn and Company). Similar series by other publishers.

Of the American classics the largest number is published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Send for catalogue.

Suggested Topics

Southern life in colonial times.

New England life in colonial times.

Franklin's philosophy of life.

A group of Irving's short stories.

Cooper's Indians.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates.

A review of Parkman's "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West."

Emerson's "Self-Reliance."

Thoreau's philosophy of life.

Hawthorne and the problem of evil.

New England farm life as presented by Whittier.

Longfellow as a cultural influence.

Whitman's idea of democracy.

Howells as a Realist.

A study of Henry James's "Portrait of a Lady."
An estimate of Mark Twain.
The "new poetry" movement.
The best recent American plays.
A study of a novel of the day.

A CLOSING WORD

We have now completed our journey-from Egypt and Babylonia, the oldest of nations, to America, almost the newest. The reader will recall that in the preface to this volume the statement was made that the province of our study was to be the literature of the major nations. Much of interest and significance in the literature of the world has perforce been passed by. Very attractive material in Spanish-American literature is now rapidly becoming known to readers of English. A good deal of excellent writing has been done, and is being done, in Canada and other portions of the British Empire not covered in our sketch. The Magyar literature of Hungary is very considerable in amount, covers many fields, and includes the novels of Maurus Jókai, whose "Black Diamonds," for example, has won a host of readers in its English translation. In Poland many writers of distinction have appeared through the centuries. None of these is better known to English readers than an author of our own day, Henryk Sienkiewicz. In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. His "Quo Vadis?" is a great novel. The literature of the Czechs will perhaps be made accessible to us in view of the widespread interest in the new nation of Czechoslovakia. A number of rather remarkable Balkan tales have recently been published in English. The Rumanian folk songs, collected from the peasants by Hélène Vacaresco and translated by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettell under the title "The Bard of the Dimbovitza," consist of poetry of a beautiful and poignant quality. Vondel, Maartens, and other Dutch writers have achieved distinction. If our space permitted, our tale might be lengthened indefinitely, linking the past with the present and embracing the sincere and human utterances of people of all races. "Except a living man," said Charles Kingsley, "there is nothing more wonderful than a book! -a message from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away. They speak to us, amuse us, inspire us, teach us, open their hearts to us as brothers."

INDEX

KEY TO PRONUNCIATION: fäte, făt, ärm, åsk, câre; ēve, mět, maker; ice, it; ōld,
not, hôrse, food, foot; use, ŭp. ü represents the German and French sound as in grün
and lune (= lün). û represents the German ö, oe (schön), and French eu (jeu = zhû).
Unmarked vowels are obscure. th, as in then. ǹ represents the French nasalizing n, as
in French ton. K represents the German ch, as in ach.