A Manual of American Literature
Part 43
_Ways of the Spirit_, etc., 381
_We and Our Neighbours_, 171
_We Girls_, 182
_Weaker Sex, The_, 218
_Wealth and Worth_, 163
_Web of Life, The_, 234
Webbe, John, 434
Webber, Charles Wilkins, 165
Weber, Friedrich A., 417
Webster, Daniel, 98, 360, 367, 368-9, 369-72, 373, 375
Webster, Noah, 409, 413
_Webster’s Dictionary_, 396
_Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers_, 330
Welles, Thomas, 405
Wells, Carolyn, 345, 350
Wells, David Ames, 400, 405-6
Wendell, Barrett, 339-40
_Wensley_, 444
_West Point Wooing, A_, 224
Westcott, Edward Noyes, 232
_Western Clearings_, 162
_Western Monthly Magazine, The_, 439
_Western Review, The_, 450
_Westminster Abbey_, 317
Wetherell, Elizabeth. See Warner, Susan.
Wharton, Edith, 235
_What Maisie Knew_, 194
_What’s to be Done?_, 163
Wheaton, Henry, 400, 402
Whelpley, James D., 450
_When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan_, 316
_Where the Battle was Fought_, 208
_Whosoever Shall Offend_, 217
Whibley, Charles, 230, 238
_Whilomville Stories_, 230, 444
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 338-9, 441, 449
_Whirl Asunder, A_, 234
Whitaker, Alexander, 7
Whitcher, Francis Miriam, 349
White, Richard Grant, 338, 444
White, William A., 236
_White Heron, A_, 205
_White Islander, The_, 227
_White Jacket, The_, etc., 165
_White Man’s Africa_, 444
_White Slave, The_, 159
Whitlock, Brand, 236
Whitman, George, 310
Whitman, Sarah H., 266
Whitman, Walt, 245, 292, 297, 307-13, 341, 343, 413, 451
Whitney, Adeline D. T., 182
Whitney, William Dwight, 409, 417-18
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 73, 74, 267, 290, 295, 296-303, 323, 325-6, 370, 372, 439, 445
_Wide, Wide, World, The_, 168-9
_Widow Bedott Papers, The_, 349
_Widow Guthrie_, 185
_Widow Sprigg_, etc., 349
_Wieland, or The Transformation_, 118-9
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 234, 446
Wiggin, Mrs. Samuel B. See Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
Wigglesworth, Michael, 21-22
_Wigwam and the Cabin, The_, 149
Wilberforce, William, 361
_Wild Honeysuckle, The_, 249
_Wild Life_, 144
Wilde, Richard H., 268
Wilkins, Mary E., 133, 224-5, 238, 239, 444
_Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, The_, 342, 398
Willard, Emma H., 266
Williams, Jesse Lynch, 236
Williams, Roger, 14-17
Williamson, Hugh, 92
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 152, 174, 256, 303, 333-4, 438, 439, 440, 441, 448
Wilson, Alexander, 436, 437
Wilson, Woodrow, 113, 114, 115, 340, 408, 444, 445
Winchell, Alexander, 426
_Wind in the Rose Bush, The_, 225
_Wind of Destiny, The_, 219
_Wing-and-Wing, The_, etc., 126
_Wings of the Dove, The_, 195
Winsor, Justin, 94, 112, 113
_Winsted Herald, The_, 317
Winter, William, 177, 341
Winthrop, John (of Mass.), 10-12, 35, 89, 134
Winthrop, John (of Conn.), 35, 176
Winthrop, John (of Harvard), 36, 37
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 377
Winthrop, Theodore, 176-7, 187
Wirt, William, 365, 373, 374
_Wisdom of Fools, The_, 227
Wise, Henry Augustus, 166
_Wise Woman, The_, 224
Wister, Owen, 233
_Witch of Prague, The_, 216
_Witching Times_, 174
_With the Procession_, 230
Witherspoon, John, 42, 70-71, 380, 435
Wolf, Emma, 238
_Wolf, The_, 231
_Wolfert’s Roost_, 324
_Woman in the Nineteenth Century_, 331
_Woman of Honour, A_, 218
_Woman’s Exchange, The_, 232
_Woman’s Reason, A_, 200, 447
_Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, A_, 137
_Wonderful One-Hoss Shay, The_, 295
_Wondersmith, The_, 177
Wood, Sally Keating, 121
Wood, William, 35
_Wood Fire in No. 3, The_, 228
Woodberry, George Edward, 139, 140, 154, 155, 340
Woodburn, J. A., 379
_Woodcraft_, 149
_Woodman, Spare that Tree_, 256
_Woodnotes_, 442
Woodward, Robert, 428
Woodworth, Samuel, 124, 255, 438
Woolman, John, 71-4, 300
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 380, 400, 403-4
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 191, 238, 329, 444
Worcester, Joseph Emerson, 409, 414
_Word of Congress, The_, 346
_Words and Their Uses_, 338
Wordsworth, William, 55, 137, 241, 242, 243, 245, 249, 251, 252, 253, 257, 258, 264, 302, 327
_Work_, etc., 184
_World, The_ (New York), 317, 453
_World and the Individual, The_, 399
_World of Green Hills, A_, 341
_Would You Kill Him?_ 212
_Wound-Dresser, The_, 309
_Wounds in the Rain_, 230
_Wreck of the Schooner Hesperus, The_, 282
Wright, George F., 445
Wyatt, Edith, 238
_Wych Hazel_, 169
X
_Ximena_, etc., 303
Y
_Yale Lectures on Preaching_, 391
_Yankee, The_ (Boston), 125
_Yankee in Canada, A_, 330
_Yberville_, 231
_Year Worth Living, A_, 185
_Year’s Life, A_, 285
_Yellow Book, The_, 222
_Yemassee, The_, 148
_Yesterday with Authors_, 338
Youmans, Edward Livingston, 432-3
Youmans, William Jay, 433
Young, Charles Augustus, 431
Young, Ira, 431
_Young Maids and Old_, 224
_Young Mountaineers, The_, 208
_Young Patroon, The_, 165
_Youth’s Companion, The_, 224, 235, 334
Z
_Zachary Phips_, 204
_Zadoc Pine_, etc., 219
_Zana_, etc., 172-3
_Zenobia_, 160
_Zophiel, or The Bride of Seven_, 265-6
_Zoroaster_, 216
_Zury, the Meanest Man in Spring County_, 212
FOOTNOTES
[1] “There is a twofold liberty, natural, and civil or federal. The first is common to man with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority. The exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes men grow more evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts. This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all the ordinances of God are bent against, to restrain and subdue it. The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal; it may also be termed moral, in reference to the covenant between God and man, in the moral law, and the politic covenants and constitutions amongst men themselves. This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard not only of your goods but of your lives, if need be. Whatsoever crosseth this, is not authority, but a distemper thereof. This liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of subjection to authority.... So shall your liberties be preserved in upholding the honour and power of authority amongst you.”--_History of New England_, ii., 279-282.
[2] See “The Indian Death-Dirge,” in _The Poems and Ballads of Schiller_, by Bulwer Lytton, Tauchnitz Edition, pp. 26-27.
[3] In her valuable study of “The Early American Novel,” New York, 1907 (published after these pages were in type), Miss Lillie Deming Loshe remarks: “It is a significant fact that nearly all the directly didactic novels are by known writers--writers of literary or educational importance in their day--while, on the other hand, the stories designed chiefly for amusement, but related to their didactic contemporaries by similarity of sentiment and manner, are almost invariably by unknown authors.” Miss Loshe enumerates only thirty-five novels published before 1801.
[4] _The Century Magazine_, xxvi. 289.
[5] See Mr. Edward B. Reed’s note in _The Nation_, December 8, 1904, lxxix. 458.
[6] In a note in the Boston _Yankee_ for September, 1829.
[7] “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” Boston, 1902 (“American Men of Letters”), pp. 124-58.
[8] _Scribner’s Magazine_, January, 1908, xliii. 84.
[9] “Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl), Materials for a Biography; a Study of his Style; his Influence upon American Literature,” Baltimore, 1892.
[10] It has been alleged that by invitation Kennedy wrote the fourth chapter of the second volume of Thackeray’s “Virginians” (1857-9; Tauchnitz Edition, vols. 425, 441). Mrs. Ritchie, Thackeray’s daughter, however, believes that Kennedy only gave her father many hints and facts.
[11] See Professor Trent’s biography, “American Men of Letters” Series, 1892.
[12] See Émile Lauvrière, “Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre, étude de psychologie pathologique,” Paris, 1904.
[13] See Louis P. Betz, “Edgar Poe in der französischen Literatur,” in his “Studien zur vergleichenden Literaturgeschichte der neueren Zeit,” Frankfurt a. M., 1902; “Edgar Poe in Deutschland,” _Die Zeit_, xxxv. 8-9, 21-23, Vienna, 1903.
[14] In his “George William Curtis” (“American Men of Letters”), Boston, 1894, p. 124.
[15] See Higginson’s “Cheerful Yesterdays,” pp. 107-111.
[16] _Scribner’s Magazine_, October, 1904, xxxvi. 399.
[17] _Cf._ “Confessions and Criticisms” (1886), pp. 15-16.
[18] See Professor T. Frederick Crane’s study of them in _The Popular Science Monthly_, April, 1881, xviii. 824-833.
[19] _The Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1886, lviii. 133.
[20] Quoted by Professor C. F. Richardson, “American Literature,” ii. 448-449.
[21] In this sketch of American poetry, I have obviously had recourse not merely to the standard editions and biographies in the case of important authors, but in the case of these, to some extent, as well as of lesser authors, to a number of manuals and other compilations; among them the well-known works on American literature by Bronson, Hart, Richardson, and Onderdonk, and the anthologies, mentioned in the text, by Stedman and Page. I desire to express freely my sense of obligation to these sources.--L. C.
[22] In nine volumes, New York, 1857-1869. For the section entitled “The Orators and the Divines,” the following works, among others, have also been consulted: “American Eloquence, a Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America,” etc., by Frank Moore, two volumes, New York, 1895 (published 1857); “American Orations,” etc., edited by Alexander Johnston, re-edited by J. A. Woodburn, four volumes, 1896-1897; “The Clergy in American Life and Letters,” by D. D. Addison, 1900; “A Manual of American Literature,” by John S. Hart, 1878.
[23] _The Atlantic Monthly_, September, 1898, lxxxii. 319.
[24] _Science_, May 7, 1897, n. s. v. 717.
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