BOOK III: LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART III (CONTINUED) |
Chapter XXIV. |
Economists |
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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
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XXV. |
Scholars |
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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
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XXVI. |
Patriotic Songs and Hymns |
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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
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XXVII. |
Oral Literature |
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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
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XXVIII. |
Popular Bibles |
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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
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XXIX. |
Book Publishers and Publishing |
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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
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XXX. |
The English Language in America |
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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
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XXXI. |
Non-English Writings I
GERMAN, FRENCH, YIDDISH |
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- 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
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XXXII. |
Non-English Writings II
ABORIGINAL |
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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
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