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CONTENTS BOOK III (Continued) LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART II CHAPTER VIII MARK TWAIN By Stuart P. Sherman, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of IlKnois. Mark Twain's Place in American Literature. Youth. Printer and Pilot. The Par West. Journalist and Lecturer. The Quaker City Excursion. Later Life. Artistic Ideals. Travel Books. The Innocents Abroad. Roughing It. A Tramp Abroad. Life on the Mississippi. Following the Equator. Fiction. The Gilded Age. The Adventures of Tom > Sawyer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Pudd'nhead Wilson. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Naturalistic Pessimism. What is Man? The Mysterious Stranger. . . . . . . i CHAPTER IX MINOR HUMORISTS By George Frisbie Whicker, Ph.D., Associate Pro- fessor of English in Amherst College. Humorous Paragraphs and Columns in Newspapers. Comic Journalism. PwcA. Judge. Life. New Tendencies after the Civil War. Charles Godfrey Leland. George Ade. Eugene Field. Mr. Dooley. O. Henry. . . . . . . . . .21 CHAPTER X LATER POETS By Norman Foerster, A.M., Professor of English in the University of North Carolina. Poets of East and West. New England. Emily Dickinson. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Minor Figures. The Middle States. Bayard Taylor. Richard Henry Stoddard. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Minor Figures. Richard Watson Gilder. Richard Hovey. The West. Joaquin Miller. Edward Rowland Sill. Minor Figures. James Whitcomb Riley. William Vaughn Moody. Contemporary Poetry 31 CHAPTER XI THE LATER NOVEL: HOWELLS By Carl Van E)oren, Ph.D., Literary Editor of The Nation, Associate in English in Columbia University. The Dime Novel. John Esten Cooke. Theodore Winthrop. Domestic Sentimentalism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dred. Her Novels of New England Life. E. P. Roe. Lew Wallace. Edward Eggleston. William Dean Howells. The Development of His Taste. Experiments in Fiction. A Chance Acquaintance. A Modern Instance. The Rise oj Silas Lapham. Turgenev and Tolstoy. A Hazard of New Fortunes. Altruria. Travels and Memoirs. Later Novels. The Eighties. Francis Marion Crawford. Characteristics. Ideals. Range. Reactions from OfiBcial Realism. Rococo Romance. S. Weir Mitchell. Naturalism. E. W. Howe. Stephen Crane. Frank '^ Norris. Jack London. Contemporaries. .... /66 CHAPTER XII HENRY JAMES By Joseph Warren ^each, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in the University of Minnesota. TheQuestionof James's Americanism. His Passion for "Europe." Amer- icans in His Stories. Transcendentalism. Parentage and Education. Newport, Boston, Cambridge. Residence Abroad. Miscellaneous Writings. Collected Stories. Earlier Novels. Short Stories. Later Novels. Peculiarityof the James Method. James and Pater. Amer- ican Faith and European Culture. g6 CHAPTER XIII LATER ESSAYISTS By George S. Hellman, A.M. Types of American Essayists. Donald Grant MitcheU. Detachment from Public Afifairs. George William Curtis. Prue and I. Public Career. Charles Eliot Norton. His Great Influence. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Varied Interests. Moncure D. Conway. Edward Everett Hale. The Man Without a Country. Julia Ward Howe. Emma Lazarus. Mrs. Stowe. Charles Dudley Warner. Hamilton Wright Mabie. Edwin Percy Whipple. Edmund Clarence Stedman. William Winter. Laurence Hutton. Living Essayists. . 109 CHAPTER XIV TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS, 1846-1900 By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh. Texas. The Santa P6 Trail. By the Missouri to Oregon. Naval Ex- peditions. Missionaries. Routes from Santa F^ to Los Angeles. The Oregon Trail. California. Fremont. The Mormons. The Gold- Seekers. Indians. A Pacific Railway. Perry's Visit to Japan Boundary Surveys. Joaquin Miller. Mark Twain. Travellers to the Orient. The South Seas. The Colorado River. Geological Sur- veys. The Bureau of Ethnology. War with the Sioux. Cowboys. The Isthmus of Panama. Travels in the Older States. Africa. Egypt. Italy. Spain. Russia. Many Lands. The Philippines. Alaska. Arctic Exploration. Peary's Discovery of the North Pole. . . 131 CHAPTER XV LATER HISTORLANS By John Spencer Bassett, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of American History in Smith College. Changes in Conceptions of History. Underlying Movements. The Growth of Historical Societies. The American Historical Association. The American Historical Review. The Collection of Historical Docu- ments. The Transformation of Historical Instruction in the Uni- versities. Herbert B. Adams. Minor Historians of the Old School. John William Draper. Accounts of the Civil War. John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Ahraham Lincoln, a History. Southern Histories. " The Great Subject " — The Age of Discovery and Exploration. Amer- icana and Collectors. Henry Harrisse. Justin Winsor. Edward Gay- lord Bourne. Pour Literary Historians. John Poster Kirk. Francis Parkman. France and England in North America. Edward Eggleston. ' 'A History of Life in the United States. ' ' John Fiske. Historians of the Latest Period. Henry Charles Lea. Hubert Howe Bancroft. Alfred Thayer Mahan. Charles Francis Adams. Henry Adams. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. The Education of Henry Adams. . . 171 CHAPTER XVI LATER THEOLOGY By Ambrose White Vernon, A.M., D.D., Professor of Biography in Carleton College. The Decline of Theology. Charles Hodge. Heresy Trials. Charles Augustus Briggs. Changing Conceptions of the Bible. The Revised Version. The Higher Criticism. Evolution. Foreign Missions. The Study of Comparative Religions. Walter Rauschenbusch. Washing- ton Gladden. Phillips Brooks. ....... 201 CHAPTER XVII LATER PHILOSOPHY By Morris R. Qohen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in the College of the City of New York. American Life and American Philosophy. The Traditions of American Philosophy. Large Indebtedness to Great Britain. Other Influences. Scotch Common-Sense Realism. The Evolutionary Philosophy. Its Influence on American Theology. John Fiske. His Substitution of the Evolutionary Myth for the Old Theology. Scientific Thought in America. Chauncey Wright; His Conception of True Scientific Method. William T. Harris. His Attack on Agnosticism. Tlie Journal of Speculative Philosophy. The Improvement of Philosophical Teach- ing. The Philosophical^eview. Philosophical Professors. Charles S. Peirce. The Origins of Pragmatism. Josiah Royce. Metaphysical Idealism. The World and the Individual. William James. His Vivid- ness and Humanity. Principles of Psychology. Radical Empiricism. Pluralism. John Dewey. Naturalism. Great Influence. J. Mark Baldwin. Pancalism. George Santayana. The Life of Reason. Detachment. The New Realism. . ... • 226. CHAPTER XVIII THE DRAMA, 1860-1918 By Montrose J. i^osEs. The Civil War on the Stage; Black and Red Americans. Dion Bouci- cault. John Brougham. General Unconcern with Native Drama. Edwin Forrest. Charlotte Cushman. Edwin Booth. Lawrence Barrett. Lester Wallack. W. E. Burton. The Search for Foreign Plays. Augustin Daly. Critics. Laurence Hutton. Brander Matthews. William Winter. Bronson Howard. Local Color. Steele MacKaye. The Theatres of the Eighties in New York. The Star System. Theatrical Trusts. Charles and Daniel Frohman. David Belasco. Augustus Thomas. Clyde Fitch. James A. Heme. Wil- liam Gillette. Charles Klein. Lurid Melodrama. Successful Novels on the Stage. The Publication of Plays. George Ade. George M. Cohan. William Vaughn Moody. Later Literary Drama. The Broad- way School. Tricks and Farces. Independent Theatres. The New Theatre. Pageants. Secessionist Groups. . . . 266 CHAPTER XIX LATER MAGAZINES By William B. Cairns, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Literature in the University of Wisconsin. The Importance of the American Magazine. Advertising. Short Stories. The North A merican Review. Minor Reviews in New England and New York. The South. The Older Magazines Continued. The Atlantic Monthly. Harper's Monthly Magazine. Scribner's Monthly. The Century Magazine. Scribner's Magazine. Putnam's Monthly Maga- zine and Its Successors. The Galaxy. The Overland Monthly. The Ladies' Home Journal. Popular Magazines. Muck-Raking. McClure's Magazine. Recent Developments. .... 299 CHAPTER XX NEWSPAPERS SINCE i860 By Frank W. Scott, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Eng- lish in the 'Oniversity of Illinois. The Newspapers of i860. Progress During the Civil War. Correspond- ents. Censorship. The Influence of the Great Editors. Mechanical Improvements. Reconstruction. Charles A. Dana and the New York Sun. Weekly Papers. The Independent. Harper's Weekly. The Nation. The Decline of Editorials. The Growth of Advertising. The Associated Press. Foreign News Service. Sensationalism. Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World. William Randolph Hearst. The Sunday Supplement. Recent Tendencies. Economic Bias Among Newspapers. The New Importance of the Weekly and Monthly Papers. Collier's Weekly. The New Republic. The Weekly Review. The Liberator. The Survey. Reedy's Mirror. The Dial. The Bell- man. Party Organs. Public Activities of Newspapers. The World War .319 CHAPTER XXI POLITICAL WRITING SINCE 1850 ^y WiLLLAM Kenneth ]5^oyd, Ph.D., Professor of History in Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina. The Change of Temper after 1850. Pro-Slavery Arguments. Thomas R. Dew. Attacks on Jefferson's Ideas and on Modern Industrial Condi- tions. States' Rights and Secession. Southern Writers Opposed to Secession. Francis Lieber. Writers Opposed to Slavery. Hinton Rowan Helper. Northern Attitudes Toward Slavery. The Fugitive Slave Law. Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Kansas-Nebraska Act. Charles Sumner. The Dred Scott Decision. National Theories During the War. The Organic Theory. Sovereignty in the Nation. Practical Problems of Nationality. Opposition to the Administration. Re- construction Theories: Presidential, State Suicide, Conquered Province, Forfeited Rights. Confederate Apologists. Personal Memoirs, North and South. Civil Service Reform. Thomas A. Jenckes. George Wil- liam Curtis. Tariff Reform. David A. Wells. William G. Sumner. The Currency. Agrarian Agitation. Bimetallism. The Knights of Labor. The Trusts. The Disfranchisement of the Negro. New Doctrines. Henry George. The Income Tax. Edward Bellamy. Criticism of Governmental Administration. Imperialism and Expan- sion. The Granger Movement. Populism. Progressivism. 337 CHAPTER XXII LINCOLN By Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, Professor of History in the College of Charleston. The Mystery of Lincoln's Temperament. His Lack of Precocity. Juve- nilia. Religion. Pioneer Loneliness. Mystical Faith. First Period of Maturity. Comic Writings. Spiritual Enthusiasm for the Law. Literature Applied to Practical Tasks. Second Period of Maturity. The Great Speeches of 1 858- 1 860. The Eclipse of the Winter of 1 860- 61. The First Inaugural. Lincoln's Final Manner. Possible Influ- ence of Seward. . 3^7 CHAPTER XXIII EDUCATION By Paul Monroe, PhD., LL.D., Professor of the History of Education in Teachers College, Columbia Uni- versity. American Education Primarily Institutional. The Colonies. Virginia. Pennsylvania. New Netherland and New York. New England. The Massachusetts Law of 1647. The Apprentice System. Elemen- tary Schools. Latin Grammar Schools. Ezekiel Cheever. Christo- pher Dock. The New England Primer. Colonial Colleges. Franklin on Education. Samuel Johnson. William Smith. The Revolution. Early National Legislation. The Positions of the Fathers. Thomas Jefferson. DeWitt CHnton. The Lancastrian System. Pestalozzian Influences. Textbooks. Noah Webster. Lindley Murray. Jedidiah Morse. Nicholas Pike. Law Schools. Medical Schools. Private Societies. Educational Periodicals. The American Journal of Educa- tion. Labour and Education. Practical and Physical Education. Educational Reports. Horace Mann. Henry Barnard. Technical Literature of Education. Free Schools. Education for Girls. Emma Hart Willard. Mary Lyon. State Universities. College Problems. Great College Presidents. Lyceums. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Im- aginative Literature Dealing with Education. Henry Wadsworth. Longfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Locke Amsden. The Hoosier Schoolmaster. College Secret Societies. Phi Beta Kappa. Memoirs by Educators. Popular Problems of Education. The Education of Henry Adams. Books for and about Children. The Literature of the Immigrant. Important Writers on Educational Topics. William James. G. Stanley Hall. Edward L. Thomdike. William T. Harris. John Dewey. Foreign Observers. General Conclusions. . . . 385 |
