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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, VOLUME III
P. 17, 1. 18, for at the Court of King Arthur read in King Arthur's Court. P. 84, 1. 2, add He died 11 May, 1920.
26, for A Turn of the Screw read The Turn of the Screw. 1, for Adirondack read Adirondacks.
CONTENTS
BOOK III (Continued)
LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART II
CHAPTER VIII
MARK TWAIN
BY STUART P. SHERMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Illinois.
Mark Twain's Place in American Literature. Youth. Printer and Pilot.
The Far West. Journalist and Lecturer. The Quaker City Excursion.
Later Life. Artistic Ideals. Travel Books. The Innocents Abroad.
Roughing It. A Tramp Abroad. Life on the Mississippi. Following
the Equator. Fiction. The Gilded Age. The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court. Pudd'nhead Wilson. Personal Recollections
of Joan of Arc. Naturalistic Pessimism. What is Man?
Mysterious Stranger.
CHAPTER IX
MINOR HUMORISTS
The
By GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, Ph.D., Associate Pro-
fessor of English in Amherst College.
Humorous Paragraphs and Columns in Newspapers. Comic Journalism.
Puck. Judge. Life. New Tendencies after the Civil War. Charles
Godfrey Leland. George Ade. Eugene Field. Mr. Dooley.
O. Henry.
CHAPTER X
LATER POETS
By NORMAN FOERSTER, A.M., Professor of English in the
University of North Carolina.
Poets of East and West. New England. Emily Dickinson. Thomas
Bailey Aldrich. Minor Figures. The Middle States. Bayard Taylor.
Richard Henry Stoddard. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Minor
Figures. Richard Watson Gilder. Richard Hovey. The West.
Joaquin Miller. Edward Rowland Sill. Minor Figures. _James
Whitcomb Riley. William Vaughn Moody. Contemporary Poetry
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CHAPTER XI
THE LATER NOVEL: HOWELLS
By CARL VAN DOREN, Ph.D., Literary Editor of The
Nation, Associate in English in Columbia University.
The Dime Novel. John Esten Cooke. Theodore Winthrop. Domestic
Sentimentalism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dred.
Her Novels of New England Life. E. P. Roe. Lew Wallace. Edward
Eggleston. William Dean Howells. The Development of His Taste.
Experiments in Fiction. A Chance Acquaintance. A Modern Instance.
The Rise of Silas Lapham. Turgenev and Tolstoy. A Hazard of New
Fortunes. Altruria. Travels and Memoirs. Later Novels. The
Eighties. Francis Marion Crawford. Characteristics. Ideals.
Range.
Reactions from Official Realism. Rococo Romance. S. Weir
Mitchell. Naturalism. E. W. Howe. Stephen Crane.
Norris. Jack London. Contemporaries.
CHAPTER XII
HENRY JAMES
Frank
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By JOSEPH WARREN BEACH, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
English in the University of Minnesota.
The Question of James's Americanism. His Passion for "Europe." Amer-
icans in His Stories. Transcendentalism. Parentage and Education.
Newport, Boston, Cambridge. Residence Abroad. Miscellaneous
Writings. Collected Stories. Earlier Novels. Short Stories. Later
Novels. Peculiarity of the James Method. James and Pater. Amer-
ican Faith and European Culture. .
CHAPTER XIII
LATER ESSAYISTS
By GEORGE S. HELLMAN, A.M.
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Types of American Essayists. Donald Grant Mitchell. Detachment
from Public Affairs. George William Curtis. Prue and I. Public
Career. Charles Eliot Norton. His Great Influence. Thomas
Wentworth Higginson. Varied Interests. Moncure D. Conway.
Edward Everett Hale. The Man Without a Country. Julia Ward
Howe. Emma Lazarus. Mrs. Stowe. Charles Dudley Warner.
Hamilton Wright Mabie. Edwin Percy Whipple. Edmund Clarence
Stedman. William Winter. Laurence Hutton. Living Essayists. . 109
CHAPTER XIV
TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS, 1846-1900
By FREDERICK S. DELLENBAUGH.
Texas. The Santa Fé Trail. By the Missouri to Oregon. Naval Ex-
peditions. Missionaries. Routes from Santa Fé to Los Angeles. The
Oregon Trail. California. Frémont. The Mormons. The Gold-
Seekers. Indians. A Pacific Railway. Perry's Visit to Japan.
Boundary Surveys. Joaquin Miller. Mark Twain. Travellers to
the Orient. The South Seas. The Colorado River. Geological Sur-