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CONTENTS BOOK III {Continued) LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART III {Note.—The pagination is continuous from Volume III) CHAPTER XXIV ECONOMISTS By Edwin R. A. Seligman, Ph.D., LL.D., McVickar Professor of Political Economy in Colunjbia University. Early Discussions. Colonial Problems. Benjamin Franklin. The Revolution. Pelatiah Webster. S. Gale. Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton. Albert Gallatin. The Early Nineteenth Century. Mathew Carey. New Topics r Labor, Land, Money, Free Trade. Henry C. Carey. Communistic Arguments. The Civil War. Tariff. Currency. Statistics. The Industrial Transition. The Disappearance of Free Lands. David A. Wells. Francis A. Walker. Henry George. The American Economic Association. Recent Writers. . 425 CHAPTER XXV SCHOLARS By Samuel Lee Wolff, Ph.D., Lecturer in English in Columbia University. The Three Modes of American Scholarship. Colonial Learning. The Later Eighteenth Century. Ezra Stiles. The French Influence. Quesnay. Du Ponceau. John Pickering. Lorenzo DaPonte. The German Influence. Karl Beck. Karl FoUen. Americans Who Studied in Germany. Edward Everett. George Ticknor. Training and Travels. Life, Letters, and Journals. History of Spanish Literature. The Modern Language Association of America. Classical Philosophy. Cornelius Conway Felton. Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Classical Lexicography. James Hadley. George Martin Lane. Joseph Henry Allen. William Francis Allen. James Bradstreet Greenough. Frederick DeForest Allen. William Watson Goodwin. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. William Dwight Whitney. English Philology. Rhetoric in Harvard. Edward Tyrrel Channing. George Perkins Marsh. Richard Grant White. Fitzedward Hall. English Lexicography. Noah Webster. Joseph Emerson Worcester. Old English Studies. Thoilnas Jefferson. Virginia. Francis Andrew March. Editions of Shakespeare. Gulian Crommelin Verplanck. Henry Norman Hudson. Richard Grant White. Horace Howard Furness. Francis James Child. Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury. Writers upon Art. Charles Eliot Norton . . 444 CHAPTER XXVI PATRIOTIC SONGS AND HYMNS By Percy H. Boynton, A.M., Associate Professor of English in the University of Chicago. Patriotic Songs. Yankee Doodle. Hail Columbia. The Star Spangled Banner. Civil War Songs. Bixie. The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Maryland. Songs Since the Civil War. Cher There. Hymns. / Love Thy Kingdom, Lord. My Faith Looks up to Thee. Lord of All Being Throned Afar. One Sweetly Solemn Thought. Fling Out the Banner. Day is Dying in the West. Revivalist Hymns. . . . 492 CHAPTER XXVII ORAL LITERATURE By Louise Pound, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Nebraska. Interest Attaching to Floating Literature. Definitions. Early Popular Song. Historical Songs. EngUsh and Scottish Traditional Ballads. Other Imported Songs. American Ballads. Cowboy Songs. Game and Play-Party Songs. ... ... 502 CHAPTER XXVIII POPULAR BIBLES By Lyman P. Powell, D.D., LL.D. I. The Book of Mormon. Hebraic transplantation Origin. Joseph Smith. Contents. Hierarchy. Latter-Day Saints. II. Science and Health. The author. Sources of her doctrines. Influence of Quimby. Criticism and Comment. General effect. . 517 CHAPTER XXIX BOOK PUBLISHERS AND PUBLISHING By Earl L. Bradsher, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of English in the University of Texas. Cambridge and Boston in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century. Dutch Books at New York. German Books at Germantown, Pennsylvania. Other Centres. Relations Between Printers and Publishers. The Revolution. The Publication of American Books in England. The Sense of Nationality in Publishing. Competition with England. Rise of Native Authors. Mechanical Improvements. Annuals. Supremacy Passes from Philadelphia to New York. Establishment of Great Publishing Houses. The Struggle for an International Copyright Law. The Rewards of Authorship. Cheap Series of Books. Distribution of Publishing in the Twentieth Century. . . . . 533 CHAPTER XXX THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN AMERICA By Harry Morgan Ayres, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in Columbia University, Associate Editor of The Weekly Review. The Attitude of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Importance of Variety in Language. The History of English. The Dialect of London and Its Relation to Other English Dialects. The English of the Colonists. Developments. Conservatisms and Radicalisms. American Pronunciation. American Spelling. The Influence of the Spelling Book. The Need of American Attention to American Traditions in Speech and Usage. Sectional peculiarities of Speech in the United States. The mericanization of English. Modern American Tendencies. . . . .- 554 CHAPTER XXXI NON-ENGLISH WRITINGS I GERMAN, FRENCH, YIDDISH 1. German By Albert Bernhardt Faust, Ph.D., Professor of German in Cornell University. Periods of German Writing in the United States. Colonial Germans. Francis Daniel Pastorius. John Kelpius. Ephrata. Christopher Saur. Eighteenth Century Newspapers. Reports of Lutheran Ministers. Political Refugees of the Nineteenth Century. German Travellers in the United States. German Romances Dealing with America. Charles Sealsfield. Friedrich Gerstäcker. Triedrich Strubberg. German Lyrics. German Translations of American. Authors. Robert Reitzel. Dialect Literature. Pennsylvania German. Henry Harbaugh. Scholarly Work by Germans in the United States. Karl Pollen. Francis Lieber. Hermann von Hoist. The German Theatre. New York. Milwaukee. Other Cities. 2. French By the late Edward J. Fortier, Assistant Professor of French in Columbia University. The Beginnings of Louisiana. Literature before 1812. The Drama. Placide Canonge. The Novel. Charles Testut. Alfred Mercier. Poetry. Dominique Rouquette. Alexandre Latil. Writers Using English. Charles Eitienne Arthur Gayarré. Alcée Fortier. L'Athenée Louisianais. 3. Yiddish By Nathaniel Buchwald. Judaeo-German. The Yiddish Vernacular in America. Yiddish Journalism. The Jewish Daily Forward. Yiddish Songs. Morris Rosenfeld. Morris Winchevsky. S. Blumgarten (Yehoush). The Young Yiddish Writers. The Skitze. Israel Hurwitz (Z. Libin). Leon Kobrin. Minor Skitze Writer. Abraham Cahan. The Rise of David Levinsky. Yiddish Drama. Theatrical Conditions. Jacob Gordin. David Pinski. ... 572 CHAPTER XXXII NON-ENGLISH WRITINGS II Aboriginal By Mary Austin. The Interest of Amerind Literature. Types. Need of Memory Among Indians. Aids to Memory. Importance of Rhythm. Amerind Oratory. Gnomic Wisdom. Folk-Tales. Uncle Remus's Debt to Amerind Invention. Zuni Folk Tales. Amerind Poetry. Qualities. Stanza Forms. Amerind Epic. Hiawatha. The Walam Olum, or Red Score of the Lenni Lenape. The Zuni Creation Myth. Amerind Drama. Community Dramas. The Koshare, or DeUght-Makers. The Songs of the Mid6 Brethren. The Hako Ritual. The Night Chant of the Navaho. Significance to Modern American Literature of Amerind Modes 610 Bibliographies .......... 635 Index 829 |
