THE LIBRARIES OF AMERICA

See Adams, Public Libraries and Popular Education; Bolton, American Library History; Bostwick, The American Public Library; Green, The Public Library Movement in the United States; Hardy, The Public Library; Savage, The Story of Libraries.

THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE

See James, The Question of Our Specch; Krapp, Modern English; The Pronunciation of Standard English in America; Lewis, A Handbook of American Speech; Lounsbury, The Standard of Pronunciation in English, The Standard of Usage in English; Matthews, Americanisms and Briticisms; Mencken, The American Language; Thornton, An American Glossary; Tucker, American English.

SUGGESTED READING IN FICTION, POETRY, AND DRAMA TO ILLUSTRATE THE VARIOUS PERIODS OF

AMERICAN HISTORY

THE COLONIAL PERIOD. Austin, Standish of Standish, Betty Alden ; Bacheller, In the Days of Poor Richard; Barr, The Black Shilling, The Bow of Orange Ribbon; Child, Hobomok; Cooke, My Lady Pokahontas, Virginia Comedians; Cooper, The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The Deerslayer, The Redskins, Red Rover, Water Witch; Dix, Soldier Rigdale; Goodwin, White Aprons, A Romance of Bacon's Rebellion, The Colonial Cavalier; Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair, The Scarlet Letter, TwiceTold Tales; Holland, Bay Path; Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York; Johnston, Audrey, To Have and to Hold, Prisoners of Hope; Kennedy, Rob of the Bowl; Longfellow, New England Tragedies; Motley, Merry Mount; Parker, The Seats of the Mighty; Paulding, The Dutchman's Fireside; Pollard, The Little Chief; Rayner, In Castle and Colony; Shaw, The Coast of Freedom; Simms, The Yemasee; Stimson, King Noanett; Taylor, Anne Scarlett; Thackeray, The Virginians; Wilkins, Giles Corey, Yeoman, The Heart's Highway.

THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. Barr, A Song of a Single Note; Chambers, The Reckoning; Child, The Rebels; Churchill, Richard Carvel; Cooke, Henry St. John; Cooper, Lionel Lincoln, The Pilot, The Spy, The Pioneer; Eggleston, A Carolina Cavalier; Ford, Janice Mere

dith; Frederic, In the Valley; Jewett, The Tory Lover; Kennedy, Horse Shoe Robinson; Mitchell, Hugh Wynne; Paulding, Old Continental; Rives, Hearts Courageous; Scollard, The Son of a Tory; Simms, The Partisan, The Scout; Stevens, Old Boston; Thompson, Alice of Old Vincennes; Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys; Tyson, The Stirrup Cup.

THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD. Allen, The Choir Invisible; Atherton, The Conqueror; Bacheller, D'ri and I; Brown, Arthur Mervyn; Carpenter, Captain Courtesy; Churchill, The Crossing; Cooke, Leather Stocking and Silk; Cooper, The Prairie; Eggleston, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, The Circuit Rider; Hale, Philip Nolan's Friends; Johnston, Lewis Rand; Kennedy, Swallow Barn; Mitchell, The Red City; Parrish, When Wilderness was King; Paulding, Westward Ho!; Pidgin, Blennerhasset; F. H. Smith, The Tides of Barnegat; Stevenson, The Heritage; Stowe, The Minister's Wooing.

THE LATER NATIONAL PERIOD. Atherton, The Splendid Idle Forties, Perch of the Devil; Bacheller, Eben Holden; Brady, The Southerners; Brown, Bromley Neighborhood; Cable, The Cavalier; Canfield, The Brimming Cup; Churchill, The Crisis; Crane, The Red Badge of Courage; Deland, The Iron Woman; Fox, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come; Freeman, Pembroke; Garland, A Son of the Middle Border; Glasgow, The Battle Ground, The Voice of the People; Grant, Unleav ened Bread, The High Priestess; Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage; Hancock, Henry Bourland; Harrison, Saint Teresa; Jackson, Ramona; Jewett, Deephaven; Johnston, Cease Firing, The Long Roll; King, The Iron Brigade; Lewis, Main Street; F. Norris, The Octopus; K. Norris, Mother; Page, Red Rock, Gordon Keith; Poole, The Harbor; Stoddard, Little Smoke; Tarkington, Alice Adams, The Magnificent Ambersons; Tourgee, A Fool's Errand; Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson; Watts, Van Cleve; Westcott, David Harum; Wharton, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth; S. E. White, The Blazed Trail; W. A. White, A Certain Rich Man; Wister, The Virginian.

Brooks, Maria Gowen, 344

Brooks, Phillips, 344

Broun, Heywood, 290, 344
Brown, Alice, 274, 344

Brown, Charles Brockden, 55-56, 345
Browne, Charles Farrar, 198-199, 345
Brownell, Henry Howard, 345

Brown University, 294

Brownell, William C., 288, 345
Brownson, Orestes A., 345

Bryant, William Cullen, 70–74, 345
Bryn Mawr College, 295
Buchanan, Thompson, 345

Bunner, Henry Cuyler, 214, 345
Burdette, Robert J., 203, 345

Burgess, Gelett, 204, 345

Burnett, Frances H., 252, 345
Burnham, Clara Louise, 345
Burr, Amelia J., 345

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 256, 345
Burroughs, John, 151–152, 345
Burton, Richard, 345

Burton's Magazine, 164, 304
By and Large, 291

Bynner, Witter, 228, 345

Byrd, William, 3-5, 346

Cabbages and Kings, 277

H

Bok, Edward W., 287, 344
Boker, George Henry, 154, 344
Bolted Door, 254

Book of Prefaces, 291
Books and Men, 287
Boomerang, The, 240

Bostonians, 357

Boy Grew Older, 291

Boy's Town, 246
Boy's Will, 225

Bracebridge Hall, 256

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 344
Bradford, William, 7, 344
Bradstreet, Anne, 11-12, 344

Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 344
Braithwaite, William S., 233

Bright Shawl, 259

Branch, Anna Hempstead, 230, 344
Brass Bowl, 254
Breadwinners, The, 354
Breitmann Ballads, 358
Bright, James A., 297
Brimming Cup, 351
Broadway Journal, 165
Broker of Bogota, 152
Bromley Neighborhood, 274

Broadway Jones, 240

Brook Farm, 76–77, 106

Cabell, James Branch, 346

Cable,

George W., 178, 346

Caleb West, 367

Calhoun, John C., 93

Caliban, 359

Californians, 260

Call of the Wild, 258

Cambridge History of American Lit

erature, 291, 300

Canby, Henry Seidel, 291, 346
Canfield, Dorothy, 266-267, 346
Canterbury Pilgrims, 359

Cape Cod, 369

Captain Craig, 365
Carey, Matthew, 346

Carleton, Will, 346
Carmina, 220

Carnegie libraries, 316-317
Carryl, Guy Wetmore, 346
Carver, Jonathan, 346

Cary, Alice, 346
Cary, Phoebe, 346

Cathedral, The, 359

Cather, Willa Sibert, 266, 346
Catherwood, Mary H., 346

Cavalier, The, 346

Cawein, Madison J., 217-219, 346

Celebrated Jumping Frog, 201

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