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PAGE Administration Organs. The Gazette of the United States. The Na- tional Gazette. Alien and Sedition Laws. Spread of Newspapers. The National Intelligencer (1808). The Globe. The United States Telegraph. The National Intelligencer {18^1). Political Editors. Per- sonal Journalism. Thomas Ritchie. John M. Daniel. New York. The Evening Post. The Sun. James Gordon Bennett— r/ie Herald. New York Associated Press. Literary Weeklies. The Mirror. The Telegraph. Growth of Specialized Forms of Journalism. Anti-Slavery. The Liberator. The Great Editors. Samuel Bowles— r^e 5pnre&^e«  Republican. ' Horace Greeley— r/!e iVea- Forfe Tntejie. Henry Jar vis Raymond— r^e New York Times ^'° CHAPTER XXII DIVINES AND MORALISTS, 1783-1860 By Samuel Lee Wolff, Ph.D., Instructor in English, Ex- tension Teaching, Columbia University. The Followers of Jonathan Edwards. Relation between Divinity and Lit- erature. Samuel Hopkins. Timothy Dwight. Unitarianism. The Buckminsters. Andover Theological Seminary. Princeton Theologi- cal Seminary. Andrews Norton. Opposition to Transcendentalism. Fumess. Horace Bushnell. Henry Ward Beecher. Clerical College Presidents. Mark Hopkins. . ...... 196 CHAPTER XXIII WRITERS OF FAMILIAR VERSE By Brander Matthews, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D., Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University. I. Holmes. Ancestry. Education. Medicine. Professional Career. Biographies of Motley and Emerson. Novels. Elsie Venner. The Guardian Angel. A Mortal Antipathy. The Breakfast-Table Series. Serious Verse. Occasional Pieces. Lighter Lyrics. II. Minor Writers. Early Writers. Lighter Verse of Serious Poets. Saxe. Eugene Field. Buimer ........ 224 CHAPTER XXIV LOWELL By Ashley H. Thorndike, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of English in Columbia University. Miscellaneous Quality of Lowell's Work. Main Facts of his Life. Early Poems. Union of Art and Morality. The Biglow Papers. The Com- memoration Ode. Lowell as Critic. The New England Village. Later Doctrines .... ... 245 BOOK III LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART I CHAPTER I WHITMAN By Emory Holloway, A.M., Assistant Professor of Eng- lish in Adelphi College. Difficulties in Whitman's Biography. Youth and Education. Printer. Teacher. Editor. Stump Speaker. Early Writings. New Orleans.