Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907

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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume XVIII: American
LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART III

Edited by W. P. Trent, J. Erskine, S. P. Sherman & C. Van Doren

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CONTENTS • INDEX TO CHAPTERS • INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHIES • INDEX TO AUTHORS

CONTENTS

BOOK III: LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART III (CONTINUED)
Chapter XXIV.	Economists
	By EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, Ph.D., LL.D., McVickar Professor of Political Economy in Columbia 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: 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 Follen 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; Thomas 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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; Dixie; The Battle Hymn of the Republic Maryland; Songs Since the Civil War Over There Hymns I 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 English and Scottish Traditional Ballads Other Imported Songs American Ballads Cowboy Songs Game and Play-Party Songs BIBLIOGRAPHY

XXVIII.	Popular Bibles
	By LYMAN P. POWELL, D.D., LL.D. The Book of Mormon Hebraic transplantation Origin Joseph Smith; Contents Hierarchy Latter-Day Saints Science and Health The author Sources of her doctrines Influence of Quimby Criticism and Comment General effect BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 Americanization of English Modern American Tendencies BIBLIOGRAPHY

XXXI.	Non-English Writings I GERMAN, FRENCH, YIDDISH
	GERMAN By ALBERT BERNHARDT TRUST, 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 Friedrich 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 Follen; Francis Lieber Hermann von Holst The German Theatre; New York Milwaukee Other Cities 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 Étienne Arthur Gayarré Alcée Fortier; L’Athenée Louisianais YIDDISH By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD Judæo-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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 Zuñi Folk Tales Amerind Poetry Qualities Stanza Forms Amerind Epic; Hiawatha The Walam Olum, or Red Score of the Lenni Lenape The Zuñi Creation Myth Amerind Drama Community Dramas The Koshare, or Delight-Makers The Songs of the Midé Brethren The Hako Ritual The Night Chant of the Navaho Significance to Modern American Literature of Amerind Modes BIBLIOGRAPHY

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