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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. 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? The

Mysterious Stranger.

CHAPTER IX

MINOR HUMORISTS

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. Frank

Norris. Jack London. Contemporaries.

CHAPTER XII

HENRY JAMES

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

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TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS, 1846-1900

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By GEORGE S. HELLMAN, A.M.

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

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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-

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veys. The Bureau of Ethnology. War with the Sioux. Cowboys.

The Isthmus of Panama. Travels in the Older States. Africa. Egypt.

Italy. Spain. Russia. Many Lands. The Philippines. Alaska.

Arctic Exploration. Peary's Discovery of the North Pole.

CHAPTER XV

LATER HISTORIANS

By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of

American History in Smith College.

Changes in Conceptions of History.

Underlying Movements. The

Growth of Historical Societies. The American Historical Association.

The American Historical Review. The Collection of Historical Docu-

ments. The Transformation of Historical Instruction in the Uni-

versities. Herbert B. Adams. Minor Historians of the Old School.

John William Draper. Accounts of the Civil War. John G. Nicolay

and John Hay. Abraham Lincoln, a History. Southern Histories.

"The Great Subject"-The Age of Discovery and Exploration. Amer-

icana and Collectors. Henry Harrisse. Justin Winsor. Edward Gay-

lord Bourne. Four Literary Historians. John Foster Kirk. Francis

Parkman. France and England in North America. Edward Eggleston.

"A History of Life in the United States." John Fiske. Historians of

the Latest Period. Henry Charles Lea. Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Alfred Thayer Mahan. Charles Francis Adams. Henry Adams. Mont

Saint Michel and Chartres. The Education of Henry Adams.

CHAPTER XVI

LATER THEOLOGY

By AMBROSE WHITE VERNON, A.M., D.D., Professor of

Biography in Carleton College.

The Decline of Theology. Charles Hodge. Heresy Trials. Charles

Augustus Briggs. Changing Conceptions of the Bible. The Revised

Version. The Higher Criticism. Evolution. Foreign Missions. The

Study of Comparative Religions. Walter Rauschenbusch. Washing-

ton Gladden. Phillips Brooks.

CHAPTER XVII

LATER PHILOSOPHY

By MORRIS R. COHEN, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in
the College of the City of New York.

American Life and American Philosophy. The Traditions of American
Philosophy. Large Indebtedness to Great Britain. Other Influences.
Scotch Common-Sense Realism. The Evolutionary Philosophy. Its
Influence on American Theology. John Fiske. His Substitution of
the Evolutionary Myth for the Old Theology. Scientific Thought in
America. Chauncey Wright. His Conception of True Scientific
Method. William T. Harris. His Attack on Agnosticism. The Journal
of Speculative Philosophy. The Improvement of Philosophical Teach-
ing. The Philosophical Review. Philosophical Professors. Charles S.
Peirce. The Origins of Pragmatism. Josiah Royce. Metaphysical
Idealism. The World and the Individual. William James. His Vivid-
ness and Humanity. Principles of Psychology. Radical Empiricism.

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Pluralism. John Dewey. Naturalism. Great Influence. J. Mark

Baldwin. Pancalism. George Santayana. The Life of Reason.

Detachment. The New Realism.

CHAPTER XVIII

THE DRAMA, 1860–1918

By MONTROSE J. MOSES.

The Civil War on the Stage. Black and Red Americans. Dion_Bouci-

cault. John Brougham. General Unconcern with Native Drama.

Edwin Forrest. Charlotte Cushman. Edwin Booth. Lawrence

Barrett. Lester Wallack. W. E. Burton. The Search for Foreign

Plays. Augustin Daly. Critics. Laurence Hutton. Brander

Matthews. William Winter. Bronson Howard. Local Color. Steele

MacKaye. The Theatres of the Eighties in New York. The Star

System. Theatrical Trusts. Charles and Daniel Frohman. David

Belasco. Augustus Thomas. Clyde Fitch. James A. Herne. Wil-

liam Gillette. Charles Klein. Lurid Melodrama. Successful Novels

on the Stage. The Publication of Plays. George Ade. George M.

Cohan. William Vaughn Moody. Later Literary Drama. The Broad-

way School. Tricks and Farces. Independent Theatres. The

New Theatre. Pageants. Secessionist Groups.

CHAPTER XIX

LATER MAGAZINES

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By WILLIAM B. CAIRNS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
American Literature in the University of Wisconsin.

The Importance of the American Magazine. Advertising. Short Stories.
The North American Review. Minor Reviews in New England and New
York. The South. The Older Magazines Continued. The Atlantic
Monthly. Harper's Monthly Magazine. Scribner's Monthly. The
Century Magazine. Scribner's Magazine. Putnam's Monthly Maga-
zine and Its Successors. The Galaxy. The Overland Monthly. The
Ladies' Home Journal. Popular Magazines. Muck-Raking. McClure's
Magazine. Recent Developments.

CHAPTER XX

NEWSPAPERS SINCE 1860

By FRANK W. SCOTT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Eng-

lish in the University of Illinois.

The Newspapers of 1860. Progress During the Civil War. Correspond-

ents. Censorship. The Influence of the Great Editors. Mechanical

Improvements. Reconstruction. Charles A. Dana and the New

York Sun. Weekly Papers. The Independent. Harper's Weekly. The

Nation. The Decline of Editorials. The Growth of Advertising. The

Associated Press. Foreign News Service. Sensationalism. Joseph

Pulitzer and the New York World. William Randolph Hearst. The

Sunday Supplernent. Recent Tendencies. Economic Bias Among

Newspapers. The New Importance of the Weekly and Monthly

Papers. Collier's Weekly. The New Republic. The Weekly Review.

The Liberator. The Survey. Reedy's Mirror. The Dial. The Bell-

man. Party Organs. Public Activities of Newspapers. The World

War.

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