PART IV

LITERATURE AND LIFE IN THE HOMELAND

INTRODUCTION 403

EARLY AMERICA

THE CHARACTER OF COLUMBUS _Archbishop Corrigan_ 405

THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS _Felicia Hemans_ 407

PHILIP OF POKANOKET _Washington Irving_ 409

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH _Henry W. Longfellow_ 427

AMERICAN SCENES AND LEGENDS

MY VISIT TO NIAGARA _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 466

ON A FLORIDA RIVER _Sidney Lanier_ 473

I SIGH FOR THE LAND OF THE CYPRESS _Samuel Henry Dickson_ 477

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW _Washington Irving_ 479

THE GREAT STONE FACE _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 510

AMERICAN LITERATURE OF LIGHTER VEIN

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG _Mark Twain_ 531

THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 538

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI _O. Henry_ 541

THE RENOWNED WOUTER VAN TWILLER _Washington Irving_ 547

AMERICAN WORKERS AND THEIR WORK

MAKERS OF THE FLAG _Franklin K. Lane_ 553

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING _Walt Whitman_ 556

PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! _Walt Whitman_ 557

THE BEANFIELD _Henry David Thoreau_ 559

SHIP-BUILDERS _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 562

THE BUILDERS _Henry W. Longfellow_ 566

LOVE OF COUNTRY

THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 568

OLD IRONSIDES _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 570

THE AMERICAN FLAG _Henry Ward Beecher_ 572

THE AMERICAN FLAG _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 574

THE FLAG GOES BY _Henry H. Bennett_ 577

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER _Francis Scott Key_ 578

CITIZENSHIP _William Pierce Frye_ 580

THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON _Thomas Jefferson_ 583

THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY _William Cullen Bryant_ 586

ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Richard H. Stoddard_ 587

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! _Walt Whitman_ 588

IN FLANDERS FIELDS _John D. McCrae_ 590

AMERICA’S ANSWER _R. W. Lillard_ 591

GLOSSARY 592

THE LITERATURE SERIES _for the Junior High School_

The complete series includes: