CHAPTER XIV POE By Killis Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Texas. PAGE Youth. Education. Tamerlane and Other Poems. West Point. Balti- more. The Southern Literary Messenger. Philadelphia. New York. The Raven. The Broadway Journal. Later Misfortunes. Character. Poe as Critic. His Creed and Practice of Poetry. Tales . . .55 CHAPTER XV PUBLICISTS AND ORATORS, 1800-1850 By A. C. McLaughlin, A.M., LL.D., Professor of History in the University of Chicago. Theory and Practice. Themes. Oratorical Methods. John Marshall. His Importance. His Great Opinions. Marbury vs. Madison. Cohens vs. Virginia. McCulloch vs. Maryland. Dartmouth Collegevs. Woodward. Gibbons vs. Ogden. Joseph Story. Commentaries on the Constitution. James Kent. Commentaries on American Law. Conflict of Laws. Equity Jurisprudence. Henry Wheaton. Elements of International Law. John C. Calhoun. The Chief Spokesman of the South. Nullification. The Constitutional Guarantees of Minority. Defence of Slavery. Style and Language. Spencer Roane. John Taylor. Robert Y. Hayne. John Randolph. Powers of Invective. Henry Clay. Gifts of Leadership. His Nationalism. John Quincy Adams. " The Old Man Eloquent." Albert Gallatin. Roger Brooke Taney. Josiah Quincy. Edward Everett. Thomas H. Benton. His Westemism. Total Accomplishment of the Period ...... 70 CHAPTER XVI WEBSTER By Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph.D., LL.D., United States Senator from Massachusetts. Webster not a Writer. His Knowledge of Literature. Literature and Oratory. Webster's Permanence. The Plymouth Discourse. Rhe- toric and Literature. Webster's Developed Style ... 92 CHAPTER XVII WRITERS ON AMERICAN HISTORY, 1783-1850 By John Spencer Bassett, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of American History in Smith College. Historians of the Revolution. Gordon. Ramsay. Dra3rton. Moultrie. Marshall. Wirt. Mrs. Warren. Weems. State Histories. Bel- knap. Trumbull. Proud. Minot. H. M. Brackenridge. Ramsay. Burk. Williamson. Status of Historical Studies. General Histories of the United States. Abiel Holmes. Pitkin. Hildreth. Palfrey. Tucker. Bancroft. Collectors of Materials. Hazard. Belknap. Jedidiah Morse. Sparks. Force ....... 104
