CHAPTER V DIALECT WRITERS By C. Alphonso Smith, Ph.D., LL.D., L. H. D., Head of the Department of English in the United States Naval Academy. page I. Negro Dialect. Joel Chandler Harris. Facts of his Life. Negro Writers. Douglass. Washington. DuBois. Dunbar. The Negro in Earlier American Literature. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Foster. Russell. Uncle Remus. His Philosophy, Language, and Character. Impor- tance to Negro Folk-lore. The Negro Dialects in the United States : (i) Virginia; (2) Sea Islands; (3) Louisiana; (4) Inland or Uncle Remus Dialect. II. Dialects of the Whites. Dialect and the Short Story. General Uniformity of American Speech. Western — a Composite. New England. Its laws as Summarized by Lowell. Southern. Its Rules. The Possibility of a Compromise Dialect in the Middle West 347 CHAPTER VI THE SHORT STORY By Fred Lewis Patttee, A.M., Litt.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the Pennsylvania State College. Stages in the Development of the American Short Story. Beginnings. Irving. The Annuals. Hawthorne. Poe. Realism. Rose Terry Cooke. O'Brien. HaJe. Henry James. Bret Harte. "Local Col- our." Constance Fenimore Woolson. Sarah Ome Jewett. Cable. The New Art. Aldrich. Stockton. Bunner. Bierce. The Eighties. Charles Egbert Craddock. Joel Chandler Harris. Johnston. Garland. Mary E. WiUdns Freeman. Kate Chopin. The Latest Period. Smith. London. Davis. O. Henry. Defects of the Type . . 367 CHAPTER VII BOOKS FOR CHILDREN By Algernon Tassin, A.M., Assistant Professor of Eng- lish in Columbia University. Didacticism of the Early Attempts. The Sunday School Books. Miss Sedgwick. Miss Warner. Mrs. Finley. Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Child. The Youth's Companion. Goodrich. Jacob Abbott. Cooper. Irving. Dana. Mrs. Stowe. Hawthorne's Juveniles. Increasing Dignity of Children's Books. Our Young Folks. St. Nicholas. Louisa M. Alcott. Mary Mapes Dodge. Hans Brinker. Dime Novels. Writers for Boys. Kellogg. Goulding. Oliver Optic. Alger. Later Books of Informa- tion. Revolt against Information. Trowbridge. Kaler. Aldrich. Mark Twain. Americanism in Books for Children. Fanciful Tales. Stockton. Uncle Remus. Poetry for Children. Moore. A Visit from St. Nicholas. Mary Had a Little Lamb. Field. Riley. Butter- worth. Merit of Contemporary Work in Juvenile Literature . 396 Bibliographies ........... 411 Index ............ 639
