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EEPEESENTATIYE NAMES 
 
 IN THE HISTORY OF 
 
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 REVISED EDITION. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The wants of a busy age require some inexpensive book which shall furnish general 
 information, together with a firm grasp of the movement in each field of effort. As 
 auxiliary to our anthologies, dictionaries of authors, bibliographies, and manuals of 
 literature, it has seemed not undesirable to have some " vade mecum " in which should be 
 collected information otherwise accessible only by long and continuous labor. The plan 
 adopted aims at an answer to the various rational questions which might be asked about 
 an author as an author : when did he live, who were his contemporaries, what was his 
 standpoint, what are his representative works, for what and how far can we trust him, 
 who vouched for his reliability, and what did he do to further the progress of literature? 
 
 The selection of names has been made with reference to the authors whom the world 
 has accepted as representative of English literature; as minor writers there have been 
 added those whose services have an historical value. Literature has been understood in 
 the strictest sense — the perfect adaptation of the form to the thought expressed ; judg- 
 ment is pronounced from the sesthetic point of view, and not from that of Ethics, Politics, 
 or Commerce ; Oratory, Theology, Physics, and Metaphysics have been excluded except 
 when their form has entitled them to literary recognition. 
 
 The time of any author has been indicated by giving the date of his birth and death, 
 together with the " Era " in which he would be classed. The classification of Wm. Francis 
 Collier is noticeably simple and serviceable, and has been used ; it is as follows : — 
 
 1st Era. From the birth of Chaucer, 1328, to the Introduction of Printing, 1474. 
 
 iid " " " Introduction of Printing, 1474, to the accession of Elizabeth, 1558. 
 
 iiid " " " Accession of Elizabeth^ 1558, to the shutting of the Theatres, 1648. 
 
 ivth « « « Shutting of the Theatres, 1648, to the Death of Milton, 1674. 
 
 vth " " « Death of Milton, 1674, to the Publication of the Tatler, 1709. 
 
 vith « « " Publication of the Tatler, 1709, to the Publication of Pamela, 1740. 
 
 viithEra. " " " « Pamela, 1740, to the Death of Johnson, 1784. 
 
 Tiiith " " « Death of Johnson, 1784, to the Death of Scott, 1832. 
 
 ixth " " " " " Scott, 1832, to the Present Time. 
 
 In the case of American writers the " Eras " are not used, as contemporaneity is of small 
 consequence; it may be added that less exclusiveness has been thought desirable in the 
 case of those belonging to our own country. 
 
 The classification of authors and literary forms is believed to be at once simple and 
 exhaustive : if this belief be well-founded, there will be one less want among the many 
 which oppress the earnest scholar. 
 
 T 
 
Tl PBEFACE. 
 
 Literary foims may be reduced to nine : 
 
 1. Letter. 2. Essay. 3. Treatise. Written. 
 
 4. Tale. 5. Narration. 6. History. Written or Spoken, 
 
 7. Oration. 8. Address. 9. Lecture. Spoken. 
 
 The Letter, Tale, and Oration agree in their standpoint, which is that of the author, and 
 in their aim, which is to impress. 
 
 The Essay, Narration, and Address recognize the standpoint of both author and reader, 
 are tentative, and aim to stimulate. 
 
 The Treatise, History, and Lecture assume the standpoint of the reader, are exhaustive 
 in their mode of treatment, and aim to convince. 
 
 For the classification of literary forms, the distinctions of Prose and Verse are not 
 essential, but the reader will be able to distinguish the Prose works by the italicising of 
 their titles., 
 
 Authors are classified by their work and not by their personal biographies. The object 
 of any classification should be to group those whose manner of treatment is alike rather 
 than those who deal variously with similar subjects. A humorous person, in so far as he 
 is a himiorist, will treat humorously any subject, even if it be history or metaphysics. A 
 satirist, so long as he continues a satirist, wiU treat every subject satirically ; hence the 
 character of the work will be determined by the bias of the writer, and not at all by his 
 selection of themes. A valid classification will thus be limited by the possible phases of 
 the human mind. Seven phases seem sufficient for the expression of mental difTerences, 
 and while the complete man will manifest each one of them, less gifted mortals will be 
 limited to one or to several. 
 
 1. Critic, whose treatment of themes is judicial. 
 
 2. Satirist, " " recognizes only contradictions. 
 
 3. Humorist, " " regards simply seeming irrationalities. 
 
 4. Sentimentalist, " " is based upon the feelings. 
 
 5. Rhetorician, " " , regards mainly effectiveness of presentation. 
 
 6. Metaphysician, " " is speculative. 
 
 7. Physicist, " " is based upon experiment. 
 
 He to whom each of these manifestations is but a phase, is alone the master artist, poet, 
 philosopher, or man ; such are indeed " not one but all mankind's epitome," and these are 
 the immortal few whose reputation and whose influence is confined to no country, and to 
 no times. 
 
 Representative Works only have been named. 
 
 The Characterization consists of criticisms which fairly represent the strength and weak- 
 ness of the author : and these criticisms have as far as possible been taken from critics 
 whose opinion is known by all to be beyond dispute ; as soon as a critic transcends the 
 limit assigned to him by the world at large, his opinion is not presented. 
 
 Finally, this little book is offered for its serviceableness ; if it lacks merit, the author 
 would not care to give it any factitious aid by extended reference to authorities, or by any 
 recital of his own possible fitness for the office which he has undertaken to fill. 
 
 c . , H. H. M, 
 
 St. Loms, January, 1876. 
 
8 
 
 EBPEBSENTATIVE NAMES IN THE 
 
 AVTHQB. 
 
 1. ADDISON, JOSEPH 
 1672-1719. 
 Era VI. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FOBM. 
 
 BEPBESENTATIVE WOBKS 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Letter to Lord Halifax. 
 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Essays in The Spectator. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Poems. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Cato. 
 
 BACON, FRANCIS 
 1561-1626. 
 III. 
 
 Physicist. 
 
 Treatise. 
 History. 
 
 Instauratio Magnd'. 
 History of Henry VII. 
 
 BBOWNING, ELIZABETH B. 
 1809-1861. 
 
 IX. 
 
 4. BROWNING, ROBERT 
 1812- 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Metaphysician. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Narration. 
 Essay. 
 
 Narration. 
 History. 
 
 Portuguese Sonnets. 
 Casa Guidi Windows. 
 Aurora Leigh. 
 The Greek Christian Poets. 
 
 My Last Duchess. 
 Blot on the 'Scutcheon. 
 
 8. BTINTAN, JOHN 
 1628-1688. 
 
 Sentimentalist Narration. Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 BURNS, ROBERT 
 1759-1796. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 SentimentaUst. Tale. Address to the De'il. John Anderson 
 
 Satirist. Mouse. Daisy. Bannockhum. 
 
 Humorist. Narration. Cottar's Saturday Night. 
 
 Tam O'Shanter. 
 
 7 BUTLER, SAMUEL 
 1612-1680. 
 
 V. 
 
 Satirist 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Hudibras. 
 
 BYRON, LORD 
 
 1788-1824. 
 VIII. 
 
 Rhetorician. Essay. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
 
 Satirist. Tale. Prisoner of Chillon. 
 
 Narration. Mazeppa. Don Juan. Childe Harold. 
 
 History. Manfred. 
 
 BULWER, EDW'D LYTTON 
 1805-1873. 
 
 IX 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Narration. Pdham. The Caxtons, My Novd, 
 
HI8T0BY OF ENGLISH LITEEATUEE. 
 
 9 
 
 CBABA CTERIZA TION. 
 
 " To attain a style familiar but not coarse, elegant but not osten- 
 tatious, one must give his days and nights to Addison." — Dr. Sam'l 
 Johnson, 
 
 " A polished shaft in the temple of letters, we are more struck 
 with the beauty of workmanship, than with the weight supported." — 
 Prof. John Bascom. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Addison formed Simple Prose Style. The 
 subjects treated in the Spectator series are 
 mainly Fashions and Follies, although the 
 Criticism npon Paradise Lost is the subject 
 of several papers. 
 
 Addison was a noted " conversationist." 
 
 " Comprehensiveness of mind and power of condensed thought ; Bacon's Essays have furnished the thoughts 
 
 closest reasoning in the boldest metaphor." — T. B. Shaw. of many books ; his place in science has 
 
 " Most discriminating and refined observations upon human life." not been settled, despite the numerous es- 
 
 — Edmund Burke. says upon his claims. 
 
 " Style rugged and unfinished, often without rhythm. Moral Translator of Prometheus Bound, 
 purpose, deep emotion, high-toned thought and devout spirit. 
 Bises to heights on which man has never stood, and finds depths 
 which he has never fathomed." — T. B. Shaw. 
 
 " ' The Blot on the 'Scutcheon ' is the finest poem of the century." Browning's poetry is distinguished by the 
 
 — Clms. Dickens. essential characteristics of the great mas- 
 
 " Constructs character from within ; a thinker rather than a singer. ters of " Classical Music." 
 Style abrupt and harsh." — British Quarterly Review, 6 — 1847. 
 
 " Style delightful to eveiy reader and invaluable as a study to 
 every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over language, 
 magnificence, pathos, vehement exhortation, subtle disquisition." — 
 T. B. MactmJay. 
 
 " Great humor, pathos, descriptive power, discrimination of char- 
 acter." — Francis Jeffrey. 
 
 " Wanted everything for completeness ; culture, leisure, true effort, 
 length of life itself. Excellence — his indisputable air of truth." — 
 Thomas Carlyle. 
 
 The first distinguished Scottish poet after tne 
 separation of English and Scotch as lan- 
 guages. 
 
 " Still the most prominent work in the literature of satire ; wit, Butler's minor poems contain much for the 
 ingenuity, style concise and suggestive. His expressions have the the lovers of satire, 
 terse strength of proverbs and open boundless vistas of comic asso- 
 ciations." — Geo. S. Sillard. 
 
 "Unrivalled in description and expression of passion; power 
 over the resources of language great, although he is not a careful or 
 accurate writer. His poetry abounds in passages of melting tender- 
 ness and exquisite sweetness, in wit playful and brilliant, in sarcasm 
 venomous and blistering. Leading characteristic is energy; never 
 tame, in his higher moods his words flash and bum like lightning." 
 —Geo. S. Sillard. 
 
 "Delineator of the passion of love." — Bayne. 
 " In the highest qualities required in this branch of composition 
 I the novel] Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer stands pre-eminent, and en- 
 ■ titled to a place beside Scott himself, at the very head of the prose 
 writers of works of imagination in our country." — Sir A. Alison. 
 
 Byron's love for inanimate nature and for 
 liberty was genuine, and hence he reaches 
 his " high-water mark " in these directions. 
 Possessed by a spirit o{unbelie/a.ni. yet un- 
 able to attain disbelief, he lacked " themes " 
 real to himeeltj falling as he did upon times 
 of transition. 
 
10 
 
 KEPEESENTATIVB NAMES IN THE 
 
 
 A VTHOR. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 10. 
 
 CAMPBELL, THOMAS 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 
 1777-1844. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 
 VIII. 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 CARLYLE, THOMAS 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 
 1795-1881. 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 
 
 IX. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 12. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY Humorist. 
 
 132S-I400. Sentimentalist. 
 
 I. Physicist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 Hohcnlinden. Ye Mariners of England. 
 Gertrude of Wyoming. 
 
 Hero and Hero- Worship. Sartor Resar- 
 
 tus. 
 Frederkk the Great. Life and Lettert of 
 
 Cromtaell. 
 Histori/ of the French Revolution. 
 
 A Ballad teaching what is Gentleness. 
 Chaucer's ABC. Legend of Good 
 Women. Complaint of Venus and 
 Mars. 
 
 Canterbury Tales. 
 
 13. CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF Rhetorician. 
 1694-1773. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Letters to his Son. 
 
 14. 
 
 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T. 
 
 Metaphysician. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 1772-1834. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 IX. 
 
 
 Lecture. 
 
 The Friend. 
 
 Ode to Franc*. Chamouni. 
 
 Lectures on Shakespeare. 
 
 15. COWLEY, ABRAHAM 
 1618-1667. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Metaphysician. Tale. 
 
 Davideis. Anacreontics. 
 The Mistress. 
 
 16. COWPER, WILLIAM 
 1731-1800. 
 VIII. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Letter. To the Rev. John Newton. 
 
 Humorist. Tale. John Gilpin. Boadicea. Oaths. 
 
 Narration. The Task. 
 
 17. DE FOE, DANIEL 
 1661-1731. 
 
 V. 
 
 Physicist. Treatise. Essay on Projects. 
 
 Rhetorician. Narration. Robinson Crusoe. Life of Moll Flanders. 
 
 History. Histortj of tlie Union (Scottish and Eng- 
 
 lish). 
 
 •8. DICKENS, CHARLES Rhetorician. 
 
 1812-1870. Humorist 
 
 IX. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Pickwick Papers. 
 
 Copperfidd. Dombey and Son. Oliver 
 Twia. 
 
HISTOET OF ENGLISH LITEKATUEE. 
 
 11 
 
 CHARACTERIZATION. REMARKS. 
 
 " Talent for the pathetic and sublime ; correctness and anima- Compiler of " Specimens of the British 
 
 Poets"; perhaps our best anthology. 
 
 tion."— JVancis Jeffrey. 
 
 Cavlyle is an iconoclast and fell upon times 
 of transition. Of the effectiveness of his 
 work the world bears witness; of its value 
 in exciting inquiry there can be no doubt. 
 
 " Assumes to be the reformer and castigator of his age ; a re- 
 former in philosophy, politics, and religion, denouncing the mechan- 
 ical way of thinking and want of faith, and yet has no distinct 
 dogma, creed, or constitution to promulgate ; his style is his own, 
 and combines all possible faults." — Blackwood's Magazine. 
 
 " His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old 
 age."— S. T. Coleridge. 
 
 " There was wanted some one not only endowed with poetic 
 genius and an intellect cultivated with the best scholarship of the 
 age, but also, in addition to the love of books, familiarity with the 
 human heart gained by intercourse with men in the arena of actual 
 life."— £. P. Whipple. 
 
 " Lord Chesterfield's ideal of excellence was essentially superficial ; An expurgated edition of Lord Chesterfield's 
 his praise of solid acquirement and genuine principles is always 
 coupled with the assertion of their entire inutility if unaccompanied 
 by grace, external polish, and an agreeable manifestation. . . . 
 Rhetoric, in his view, transcends reflective power." — H. T. Tuck- 
 erman. 
 
 Letters has been published by Dr. Tmsler. 
 Chesterfield is still the best authority on 
 manners. 
 
 " Seeks ideal truth ; predominant habit, in-looking; irregular im- 
 agination, with reflective meditation." — Henry Reed. 
 
 " ' Ode to France,' the finest in modern times." — Shelley. 
 
 "Largest and most spacious intellect, subtlest and most compre- 
 hensive of men." — Thomas De Quincey. 
 
 " Replete with learning and all the ornaments supplied by books." Best of the " Concetti." 
 — Dr. Samuel Johnson. 
 
 "Language has masculine vigor and idiomatic strength ; senti- Restored to poetry the use of simple language, 
 ments from the heart.'! — Thomas Campbell. and vindicated the claims of " the poetry 
 
 " Redeemed poetical language." — Francis Jeffrey. of ordinary life." 
 
 " Great ingenuity, strong and clear conceptions ; language equally Partisan criticism harassed De Foe during 
 perspicuous and forcible." — C. D. Cleveland. life, and after death it, to a great extent, 
 
 persuaded the world that his sole claim to 
 recollection rested upon Robinson Crusoe. 
 Allibone states De Foe's works to be 210 
 in number. 
 
 " Peculiar and original vein of humor ; quaint, grotesque, and 
 unexpected combination of ideas. Excels in scenes of sickness or 
 death, and has uncommon skill in the minute representation of 
 scenes of still life. Tone sound and healthy, poetical imagination, 
 hatred of injustice and oppression." — Geo. S. HiUard. 
 
12 
 
 EEPRESENTATIVB KAMES IN THE 
 
 AUTHOR. 
 
 19. DRYDEN, JOHN 
 1631-1700. 
 
 V. 
 
 20. ELIOT, GEORGE 
 1820-1880. 
 
 IX 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 REIEESENTATIYE 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Epistle to Congreve. 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Prefaces. 
 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 Essay on Dramatic Poetry. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Ode to St. Cecilia. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Absalom and Achitophel. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 The Indian Emperor. 
 
 Metaphysician. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Poems. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Adam Bede. JUmola. M 
 
 21 
 
 FIELDING, HENRY 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 On Conversation. 
 
 1707-1754. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Tom Jones. An, 
 
 VII. 
 
 Critic. 
 
 History. 
 
 Dramas. 
 
 22 GIBBON, EDWARD 
 1737-1794. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Rhetoridan. 
 
 Histoiy. 
 
 Decline and Fall of the Soman Empire. 
 
 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER 
 
 Hnmorist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Citizen of the World. 
 
 1728-1774. 
 
 Sentimentalist.- 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 Animated Nature. 
 
 YII. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Vicar of Wakefield. Deserted Village. 
 The TraveUer. 
 
 
 
 History. 
 
 She Stoops to Conquer. 
 
 24 GRAY, THOMAS 
 1716-1771. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 
 
 Rhetorician. Essay. Progress of Poesy. 
 
 Letter. Letteri to West, Walpole, cmd others. 
 
HISTOET OF ENGLISH LITERATUBB. 
 
 13 
 
 CBA BA CTEBIZA TION. 
 
 SEMARKS. 
 
 "A writer of a manly and elastic character; strong judgment Dryden gave us the versified letter, the first 
 
 gives force and direction to a flexible fancy. Lacks intense or lofty 
 sensibility ; coarse, characters too abstract." — Thomas Campbell. 
 
 specimen of prose style, and the first ver- 
 sified personal satire. The Ode to St. Ce- 
 cilia (popularly called Alexander's Feast) 
 is all that now represents Dryden's work 
 to the general reader. 
 
 " Style of exti-aordinary beauty and power, choice English, limpid Marion C. Evans (Mrs. G. H. Lewes). Pe 
 
 phrase, charming simplicity, felicity of expression. Sententious, 
 fonder of reflection than of narration ; narrative weak and common- 
 place ; constructive and inventive faculty lacking ; weak in plot, but 
 strong in dialogue. Psychological analysis her strength and joy." 
 — W. C. WiVcinsm. 
 
 haps the best review of George Eliot ye 
 written is that of W. C. Wilkinson in 
 Scribner's, Oct., 1874; the strictures of 
 " The Nation " may be read as a correct- 
 ive for any over-statement. 
 
 " The prose Homer of human nature." — Lord Byron. 
 
 " The romance of ' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human 
 manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial 
 eagle of Austria." — Gibbon. 
 
 "Fielding will ever remain the delight of his country, and will 
 always retain his place in the libraries of Europe, notwithstanding 
 the unfortunate grossness, — the mark of an uncultivated taste." .... 
 — Sir Jamea Mackintosh. 
 
 " Gibbon was not, like Hume, a self-thinking, deep-fathoming 
 man, who searched into the nature of things, existence, and thought, 
 .... but had the capacity ofquickly making other people's thoughts 
 and investigations his own, and of propounding them in an admira- 
 ble manner." — Schhsser. 
 
 "But the whole is, notwithstanding, such an assemblage of <nerits, 
 so various, so interesting, so rare, that the History of the Decline 
 and Fall must always be considered as one of the most extraordinary 
 monuments that have appeared of the literary powers of a single 
 mind, and its fame can perish only with the civilization of the 
 world." — Prof. Smyth. 
 
 Gibbon is often est and most justly reproached 
 with his infidelity ; and it is after granting 
 the justice of the complaints on the part 
 of the Christian, the moralist, the histo- 
 rian, and the man of taste, that Professor 
 Smyth makes his statement. Allibone's 
 article upon Gibbon will guide more ex- 
 tended inquiry. 
 
 " Wrote to exalt virtue and to expose vice." — Walter Scott. 
 
 " Purity of moral lesson, and interest of story." — C. D. Cleveland. 
 
 " The delineations of this character [that of the " excellent Wake- 
 field"] on his course of life through joys and sorrows, the ever- 
 increasing interest of the story make this novel one of the 
 
 best that was ever written." — Goethe. 
 
 " Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delight- 
 ful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream." 
 — William Hazlitt. 
 
 "Energy, splendor, and perfect finish of poetical style." — George Founded the school of "reflective poetry, oc- 
 8, Hillard. cnpying itself with the feelings and inter- 
 
 ests of ordinaiy life." 
 
14 
 
 A UTBOB. 
 
 2S. GBOTE, GEORGE 
 1794-18T1, 
 iz. 
 
 EEPEE8ENTAHVE NAMES IK THE 
 
 CLASS. FORM. BEPBESENTATIVE WOEKa. 
 
 Bhetoridan. History. Hutory of Greece. 
 
 26. HALLAM, HENRY 
 1778-1859. 
 Tin. 
 
 Critic. 
 
 History. View of Europe during tJie Middle Agei. 
 
 The Constitutional History ofEtigland. 
 ItUroduction to the Literature of Europe 
 in the 15th, I6th, and nth Centuries. 
 
 27. 
 
 HA2LITT, WILLIAM 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Characters of Sliakespear^s Plays. Es- 
 
 1778-1830. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 
 says on English Novelists. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Life of Napoleon. 
 
 
 
 Lecture. 
 
 Lectures on Autliors. 
 
 28. 
 
 HEM AN S, FELICIA D. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 
 1793-1835. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 
 VIII. 
 
 
 
 ■29. 
 
 HERBERT, GEORGE 
 1593-1632. 
 III. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 30. 
 
 HOOD, THOMAS 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 
 1798-1845. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 
 IX. 
 
 
 
 SI. 
 
 HUME, DAVID 
 
 
 Essay. 
 
 
 1711-1776. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 
 VII. 
 
 
 
 Bernardo del Carpio. 
 Tales and Historic Scenes. 
 
 The Temple. 
 
 Song of the Shirt. Lady's Dream. 
 Whims and Oddities. Bridge of Sighg. 
 Tylney Hall. 
 
 Essays, Moral and Metaphysical. 
 History of England. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, 
 
 15 
 
 CHABA CTEBIZA TION. 
 
 " A decided liberal, perhaps even a republican, in politics, Mr. 
 Grote has labored to counteract the influence of Mr. Mitford in Gre- 
 cian history, and to construct a history of Greece from authentic 
 materials, which should illustrate the animating influence of demo- 
 cratic freedom upon the exertions of the human mind He has 
 
 displayed an extent of learning, a variety of research, a power of 
 •combination, which are worthy of the very highest praise, and which 
 have secured for him a lasting place among the histbrians of modem 
 times." — Sir A. Alison. 
 
 BBMABKa. 
 
 "Spirit of fairness and impartiality ; style dry, austere, uniformly Hallam gave us our first reliable history of 
 clear ; sometimes overloaded with ornament." — T. B. Macaulay. literature. 
 
 " All the subjects glanced at in these earlier lectures [his own] are 
 there [H.'s Middle Ages] thoroughly considered by this author with 
 all the patience of an antiquarian, and the spirit and sagacity of a 
 philosopher." — Prof. Smyth. 
 
 " In extent and variety of learning, and a deep acquaintance with 
 antiquarian lore, the historian of the Middle Ages may deservedly 
 take a place with the most eminent writers in that style that Europe 
 has produced." — Sir A. Alison. 
 
 " When Mr. Hazlitt's taste and judgment are left to themselves, 
 we think him among the best, if not the very best, of living critics 
 in our national literature ; .... he is sometimes the very worst. 
 One would suppose that he had a personal quarrel with all living 
 
 writers, good, bad, and indifferent With him, to be alive is 
 
 not only a fault, but it includes all other possible faults. ... In 
 short, if you want his praise, you must die for it ; and when such 
 praise is deserved, and given con amove, it is almost worth dying 
 for." — Chrisiopher North. 
 
 " Infinitely sweet, tender, and elegant ; contemplative rather than Mrs. Hemans is especially the poet of the 
 vehement; exquisite delicacy, evenness of execution, purity and " domestic aflections." 
 loftiness of feeling ; humble tone of indulgence and piety, diction 
 beautifully harmonious and free." — Francis Jeffrey. 
 
 " Next to the Scripture poems, there are none so savory to me as Among the few authors of good religious 
 Mr. George Herbert's." — Richard Baxter. lyrics. \ 
 
 " Accurate observer of life and manners ; wit arises from a profu- First of English humorists in order of time 
 sion of quaint, odd, and unexpected combinations ; humor rich and as well as in point of merit. His pathetic 
 delicate ; without rival as a punster." — George S. Hillard. oieces are the first poetical treatment of the 
 
 poor and destitute, when such treatment 
 is used as an instrument of reform. 
 
 "Negligent in the use of the sources of history." — Schlosser. 
 " As an elegant and spirited composition it merits every commen- 
 dation. Hume always inclines to prerogative." — Prc^. Smyth. 
 
 "His aim is to establish a universal skepticism, 
 and to produce in the reader a complete 
 distrust in his own faculties. . . . With the 
 single exception of Bayle, he has carried 
 this skeptical mode of reasoning farther than 
 any modern philosopher." — Dug. Steicart. 
 
16 
 
 KEPKESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE 
 
 AVTBOR. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 . JEFFREY, FRANCIS 
 
 Critic. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 1773-1850. 
 
 
 
 Till. 
 
 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 Contributions to Edinburgh Seview. 
 
 33. 
 
 JERROLD, DOUGLAS 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Caudk Lectures. 
 
 
 1803-185". 
 IX 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Black-Eyed Snsai 
 
 34. 
 
 JOHNSON, SAMUEL 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Talc. 
 
 Rasselas. 
 
 
 1709-1784. 
 
 
 Essay. 
 
 T/ie liamliler. 
 
 
 VII. 
 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Histor)'. 
 
 Lives of tlie Poets. 
 
 London. 
 
 Irene. 
 
 Heads of the People. 
 1. Rent-Day. 
 
 35. 
 
 JON SON, BEN 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 1573-1637. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 History. 
 
 in. 
 
 
 
 Epigrams. Epitaph for Shakespeare. 
 Volpone. Catiline. The Alchemist. 
 Everi/ Man in his Uumar. Sejanus. 
 
 36. JUNIUS 
 
 1769-1772. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 TAe Letters of Junius. 
 
 37. 
 
 KEATS, JOHN 
 1796-1820. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Rhetorican. TaJe. Endymion. Hyperion. Lamia. Isa- 
 
 bella. Eve of St. Agnes. Hymn 
 to Pan. Ode to a Nightingale. 
 
 38. 
 
 LAMB, CHARLES 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Letter to a Distant Correspondent. 
 
 1775-1834. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Essays of Elia. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Poetry for Children. 
 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Tales Jrom tlte Plays of Shalctspeare. 
 
 
 
 History. 
 
 John Woodvil. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITESATUBB. 
 
 17 
 
 CHABA CTEEIZA TION. 
 
 " Thoroughly acquainted with progress and pretensions of modem 
 literature and philosophy ; the natural acuteness and discrimination 
 of the logician, with habitual caution and coolness., .... His 
 strength consists in a great range of knowledge, an equal familiarity 
 with the principles and with the details of a subject, and in a glan- 
 cing brilliancy and rapidity of style." — William Hazlitt. 
 
 " Bare skill, undoubted originality, imperturbable good temper, . . . 
 a flash of wit at once dazzling and delightful." — Londion Atherueum. 
 
 SBMARKB. 
 
 " Pomp and uniformity." — William Hazlitt. 
 " Style artificial, elaborate, delighting in antithesis and words of 
 X^atin origin ; frequently pompous and heavy." — George S. Hillard. 
 
 Dr. Johnson, as a man and as a moral influ- 
 ence, is still one of the great names in hu- 
 man history ; as a writer, his works have 
 been replaced by others better adapted to 
 the wants of our own time. He was also a 
 noted conversationist, gave us an edition 
 of Shakespeare, and the first English dic- 
 tionary. 
 
 " Jonson possessed all the learning that was wanting to Shake- 
 speare, and wanted all the genius which the other possessed." — 
 David Bume. 
 
 "His works, as the characteristic productions of an individual 
 mind, or as records of the manners of a particular age, cannot be 
 valued too highly ; but they have little charm for the more general 
 reader." — William Hazlitt. 
 
 " Classic purity of language, extensive information, force and The authorship of these letters is still unset- 
 
 perspiouity of argument, fearless and decisive tone, severity of re- tied. For a full discussion of this subject 
 
 proach, attachment to the principles of the constitution." — J. M. see Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. 
 Good. 
 
 "Power oflanguage, rays of fancy, gleams of genius; unintelligi- Keats began the "scholarly school of poetry"; 
 
 ble, rugged, diffuse, tiresome, absurd." — Gifford. a school which seeks its themes in the glo- 
 
 " Wondei'fitl profusion of figurative language, often exquisitely ries of the past and which, while in the 
 
 beautiful and luxuriant, but sometimes fantastical and far-fetched. present, is not of the present 
 btniin of classic imagery, combined with a perception of natural 
 loveliness rich and delicate." — T. B. Shaw. 
 
 " A true poet, but not a great one." — D. M. Moir. 
 
 "Fine humor, taste, penetration, vivacity, delicacy of feeling, and 
 happiness of expression. Style marked by quaintness and antique- 
 uess, pathos, wit." — T. B. Shaw. 
 
 " 1 know of no essay-writing comparable to them [the Essays of 
 Elia], so full are they of an inimitable blending of thoughtfulness 
 and playfulness, — that half-serious, half-sportive habit of mind, far 
 more agreeable than wit, described by our word .... humor." 
 — Henry Reed. „ 
 
 Gave us specimens of the English draniatic 
 poets. 
 
18 
 
 EEPKESENTATIVE NAMES IIT THE 
 
 AUTHOR., 
 
 39. LOCKE, JOHN 
 
 1632-1704. 
 
 V. 
 
 CLASS. FORM. BEPBESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 Metaphysician. Treatise. Essay on the Limits of the Human Under- 
 
 ' standing. Treatise on Goaemment. 
 
 Thoughts concerning the Education of 
 Children. 
 
 40. LOCKHAET, J. G. 
 
 1794-1854. 
 
 Rhetorician. Essay. Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk. Conb » 
 
 buttons to London Quarterly. 
 
 Narration. Valerius ; a Roman Story. Adam Blair. 
 Reginald Dalton. 
 
 History. History of tlie Late War. Life of Bums 
 
 Life of Napoleon. Life of Scott. 
 
 41. 
 
 MACAULAY, T. B. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Essays. 
 
 
 1800-1859. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Lays of Ancient Rome 
 
 
 IZ. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 History of England. 
 
 42. MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER Rhetorician. Tale. 
 
 1563-1593. History. 
 
 III. 
 
 Passionate Shepherd to his Love. 
 Tamburlanc the Great. Edward II. 
 Dr. Faustus. The Jew of Malta. 
 
 43. 
 
 44. 
 
 45. 
 
 46. 
 
 47. 
 
 MASSmGER, PHILIP 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 History. 
 
 1584-1640. 
 
 
 
 III. 
 
 
 
 MILTON, JOHN 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 1608-1674. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 IT. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Narration 
 
 History. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, JAMES 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 1771-1854. 
 
 
 Narration 
 
 vm. 
 
 i 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 MOORE, TOM 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 1779-1852. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Narration 
 
 Till. 
 
 
 
 MORE, HANNAH 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 1745-1833. 
 
 
 Essay. 
 
 TUX. 
 
 
 Narration 
 History. 
 
 Duke of Milan. The Virgin Mai-tyr 
 The Unnatural Combat. 
 
 Contronersial Tracts. 
 On Divorce. 
 
 On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. 
 Lycidas. 
 
 Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. 
 Comus. Samson Agonistes. 
 
 Hymns. 
 
 Pelican Island. 
 
 Lectures on Poetry andGeneral Literature. 
 
 Irish Melodies. National Melodies, 
 Lalla Rookh. Fudge Family in Paris. 
 
 Tales in Verse. 
 
 On Female Education. Thoughts on the 
 
 Manners of the Great. 
 Cceld)S in Search of a Wife. 
 Percy, The Inflexible Captive. 
 
HISTOEY OF ENGLISH LITBEATURE. i» 
 
 CHABACTEBIZATION. BEMABKS. 
 
 " In language of all philosophers the most figurative, amhignous, 
 "Various, vacillating, and even contraffictory." — Reid. 
 
 " Solicitous only to convey his ideas with perspicuity and pre- 
 cision, no affectations, no conceits, no daring metaphors, no inverted 
 sentences : clear, easy, natural." — Drake. 
 
 " In the lighter branches of literature he has deservedly attained Fine translations of ancient Spanish ballads, 
 the very highest eminence. As a moralist, a critic, and a biogra- 
 pher, he has taken a leading place in English literature." — Sir A, 
 AHion. 
 
 " Brilliant rhetorical power, splendid coloring, affluence of illus- 
 tration, animation, and energy." — George S. Sillard. 
 
 " It is this partial and one-sided exposition of the truth, accom- 
 panied by a generally exaggerated style of composition, more than 
 positive inaccuracy, that we complain of in Mr. Macaulay." — Sir 
 A. Alison. 
 
 "Fancy rich; feeling, tender; there is no such sweetness of ver- Marlowe's is the second great name in dra- 
 sification and imagery to be found in our blank ver'se anterior to matic literature. 
 Shakespeare." — Thomas Campbell. " Certainly the best historical plays aftei 
 
 " The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished Shakespeare's." — flenry Hallam. 
 hints which Shakespeare scarcely improved in his Richard II. ; and 
 the death-scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror beyond any 
 scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." — Chas. Lamb. 
 
 " Wit, sprightly dialogue, theatrical effect ; beauty of language, Ranks high among the Elizabethan dram» 
 harmonious swell of numbers, pure and genuine idiom." — Henry tists. 
 Hallam. 
 
 " Classical judgment and regular perfection. The subject of 
 Paradise Lost is the finest that has ever been chosen for heroic poe- 
 try ; it is also managed by Milton with admirable skill." — Henry 
 Hallam. 
 
 " The only blank verse except Shakespeare's." — William Hazlitt. 
 
 "Purity of feeling, and gentle, sympathetic spirit; many nobla 
 descriptions, but lacks strength for protracted flight ; genius essen- 
 tially lyric." — Gmrge S. Hillard. 
 
 " Vivid fancy, sparkling wit, rich command of poetical expression, 
 love of oniainent, sense of music; not careful, auu will not bear 
 verbal criticism." — George S. Hillard. 
 
 " She did, perhaps, as much real good in her generation as any 
 woman that ever held the pen. Style flowing and sparkling with a 
 pleasant humor." — T. B. Shaw. 
 
20 
 
 
 A VTHOR. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 48. 
 
 POPE, ALEXANDER 
 
 Bhetorician. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 
 1688-1744. 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 
 TI. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 49. 
 
 QUINCEY, THOMAS DB 
 1785-1859. 
 
 Bhetorician. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 
 IX. 
 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 History 
 
 EEPKESEN-TATIVB NAMES IN THE 
 
 BEPBESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 Eloise to Abelard. Epistles. 
 
 Preface to Edition of Shakespeare. 
 
 Rape of the Lock. 
 
 The Dunciad. 
 
 On Criticism. On Man. 
 
 Miscellaneous Essays. English Poets 
 and Writers. 
 
 Tlte Logic of Political Economy. 
 
 The CcEsars. 
 
 Confessions of an Opium-Eater. Bio- 
 graphical Sketches. 
 
 «0. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM 
 1721-1793. 
 Till. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 History. 
 
 Histories of America, Scotland, and of 
 Charles V. 
 
 51. ROGERS, SAMUEL 
 
 1763-1855. 
 Tin. 
 
 52. RUSKIN, JOHN 
 
 1819- 
 
 IX. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 Narration. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Lecture. 
 
 Ginevra. 
 
 Pleasures of Memory. 
 Italy. 
 
 Columbus. 
 
 Stones of Venice. Giotto and his Works 
 in Padua. Modem Pair^ers. Seven 
 Lamps of Architecture. 
 
 Lectures on Architecture and Painting. 
 
 53. 
 
 RUSSELL, WILLLAM H. 
 1816- 
 IX. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 51. 
 
 SCOTT, SIB WALTER 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 
 1771-1832. 
 
 
 Narration, 
 
 
 Tin. 
 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Correspondence for London Times. 
 
 Songs. ^ 
 
 Marmion. Waverlo)^. Ivanlioe. Ken- 
 
 ilworth. 
 Lady of the Lake. Lay of the Last 
 
 Minstrel. 
 Lives ofDryden, Swift, Napoleon. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH tiTEBATUEB. 
 
 31 
 
 CnABA CTERIZA TION. 
 
 » 
 
 " Compact and pointed diction." — Macauhy. 
 
 " Strictest melody and tersest expression ; pauses have too little 
 variety, phrases too antithetical." — Thomas CamjMl. 
 
 " Rhymes defective ; uniformly smooth and melodious." — William 
 Hazlitt. 
 
 " Beasoning without imagination or sentiment." — Sir E. Brydges. 
 
 " Condensation of thought." — Shenstone. 
 
 '' Graphic power, accuracy of detail with poetic illustration."— 
 Ijondon Monthly Review. 
 
 "Pungency, brevity, force." — M'Culhch. 
 
 "Acute perception of character, classic elegance of style; lacks 
 narrative power, but has power of picturesque description." — PT. 
 H. Prescott. 
 
 " Master of English composition, critic of uncommon delicacy, 
 unflinching investigator of received opinions, philosophic inquirer 
 second only to Coleridge." — London Quarterly Beview. 
 
 " Uses spoken English." — Burlce. 
 " Good sense and elegance." — Mackintosh. 
 
 " Robertson is your Livy ; his Charles V. is written with truth." 
 — Voltaire. 
 
 " Careful finish and the grace of patient elaboration." — George S. 
 EiUard. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Almost all of Pope's literary forms became 
 new under his management. His transla- 
 tion of Homer, while not valuable as a 
 tianslation, is nevertheless one of the most 
 beautiful oL English poems. 
 
 " Lacks logical faculty ; style perspicuous and forcible when not 
 inflated." — Edinburgh Meview. 
 
 " Unstable, crotchety, passionate, too intense at times to be just, 
 still they [his works] contain worlds of thought, imagination, and 
 knowledge, such as no other artist can educe. A strong and earnest 
 purpose runs through them all, given to the highest ends." — London 
 Athenaeum. 
 
 Gives ns an account of the Crimean War. 
 
 " Genuine human worth." — Tliamas Carlyle. 
 
 " Secret of popularity and leading characteristic,— common topics, 
 images, and expressions. Aptitude for description of scenes abound- 
 ing in motion or action of any kind." — Francis Jeffrey. 
 
 " Most intensely real representation of the living spirit of the chiv- 
 alrous age. His poetry might make a very coward fearless." — Chris- 
 toplier North. 
 
 " Men fashioned of human earth and warm with human sym- 
 pathies."— T. N. Talfmrd. 
 
 " Versification easy and graceful, though sometimes careless ; style 
 energetic and condensed ; pictures glowing and faithful ; characters 
 and incidents fresh and startling ; battle-scenes rival the pages of 
 Homer." — George S. Hillard. 
 
A VTHOB. 
 
 BEPBESENTATIVB NAMES IlSr THE 
 
 CLASS. FORM. BEPSESENTATIVM W0BK8. 
 
 55. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM 
 
 1564-1616. 
 
 III. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Bbetorician. 
 
 Critic. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 Metaphysician. 
 
 Physicist. 
 
 Tale. Sonnets. 
 
 History. Hamlet. The Tempest. Jnlios Caesar. 
 
 Macbeth. Lear. Merchant of Ven- 
 ice. Merry Wives of Windsor. 
 
 56. 
 
 57. 
 
 58. 
 
 S9. 
 
 SHELLEY, PERCY BYS^ 
 
 iHE Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 The Skylark. 
 
 1792-1822. 
 
 Metaphysician. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Adonais. The Sensitive Plant. 
 
 Tin. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Queen Mab. Alastor. Promethens 
 Unbound. The Cenci. 
 
 SHERIDAN, R. B. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 History. 
 
 TheRivali. School Jbr Scandal. The 
 
 1751-1816. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 
 Critic. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 
 Oration. 
 
 Speech in the Trial of Hastings. 
 
 SMITH, SYDNEY 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Letters on the Subject of the Catholics, to 
 
 1771-1845. 
 
 
 
 my Brother Abraham who lives in the 
 
 Till. 
 
 
 
 Country. 
 
 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Contributions to the Edinburgh Beuieio. 
 
 SOTJTHEY, ROBERT 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Letters written fiom Spain and Portugal. 
 
 1774-1843. 
 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Articles from Magazines and Reviews. 
 
 IZ. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Well of St. Keyne. Mary, the Maid of 
 the Inn. 
 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 A Tale of Paraguay. 
 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Madoc. Joan of Arc. Thalabatbe 
 
 60. 
 
 SPENSER, EDMUND 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 1553-1599. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 III. 
 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 Destroyer. Biographies. History of 
 Brazil. History of the Peninsula-- 
 War. 
 
 Mother Hubbard's Tale. 
 
 The Faery Queen. Astrophel. 
 
 View of the State of Ireland. 
 
 61. STERNE, LAURENCE Satirist. 
 
 1713-1768. Rhetorician, 
 
 yii. 
 
 Narration. Tristram Shandy. 
 
HISTOET OH ENGLISH LITBKATUKB. 
 
 23 
 
 CBA£A CTERIZA TION. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Shakespeare being confessedly the first name in literature, all AUibone gives a full list of Shakespearean 
 
 characterizations take the form of eulogiums. Perhaps the best 
 thing that has been said (not to except Coleridge's epithet) is that 
 " Shakespeare possessed a capacity for universal knowledge without 
 universal experience." — W. C. Wilkinson. 
 
 " Some of the metaphysical and ethical theories of Shelley were 
 certainly most absurd and pernicious. No modem poet has pos- 
 sessed in equal degree the highest qualities of the great ancient mas- 
 ters." — Macaulay. 
 
 " Dramatic star of the first magnitude." — William Hazlitt. 
 
 works ; and since he makes so strong a 
 statement in regard to "The Authorship 
 of Shakespeare," it seems not amiss to 
 call special attention to the work of Judge 
 Holmes. To those asking what and how 
 much was Shakespeare, the best answer 
 will be given by the Lectures of Coleridge, 
 and by a series of articles in "The Journal 
 of Speculative Philosophy." 
 
 " He is universally admitted to have been a great reasoner, and " These (Plymley Letters) perhaps did as 
 the greatest master of ridicule that has appeared among us since much towards promoting Catholic Eman- 
 Swift." — Macaulay. cipation as all other publications and 
 
 speeches together."— 5. Austen Allibone. 
 
 " Of all his chief poems the conception and execution are original : 
 in much faulty, and imperfect in both ; but bearing throughout the 
 impress of original power, and breathing a moral charm in the midst 
 of the wildest and sometimes even extravagant imaginings." — Chris- ■ 
 topher North. 
 
 " Mr. Southey's prose style can scarcely be too much praised. It 
 IS plain, clear, pointed, familiar, perfectly modern in its texture, but 
 with a grave and sparkling admixture of archaisms in its orna- 
 ments." — William Sazlitt. 
 
 " We must not fear to assert, with the best judges of this and of 
 former ages, that Spenser is still the third name in the poetical lit- 
 erature of our country, and that he has not been surpassed, except 
 by Dante, in any other." — Henry Hallam. 
 
 " His command of imagery is wide, easy, and luxuriant. He 
 threw the son] of harmony into our verse, and made it more warmly, 
 tenderly, and magnificently descriptive than it ever was before, or, 
 with few exceptions, than it has ever been since. It must certainly 
 be owned that in description he exhibits nothing of the brief strokes 
 and robust power which characterize the very greatest poets." — 
 Thomas Campbell. 
 
 " Indecency and affectation In power of touching the finer 
 
 feelings of the heart, he has never been excelled." — Voltaire. 
 
 "The pure essence of English conversational style." — William 
 Bazlitt. 
 
 To the poet, Spenser addresses himself by his 
 versification and fancy, and hence he has 
 impressed himself upon all the excellent 
 poets since his time. To the lover of 
 Froissart, Spenser will always be dear. 
 "Pluidity" of language and verse, fancy, 
 hai-mony, imagery, cleanliness, and purity, 
 — these qualities are undeniably his; but 
 his works, to the general reader, are but 
 " the bricks and mortar " of a noble struc- 
 ture. 
 
24 
 
 62. 
 
 EEPEESENTATIVE NAMES IIT THE 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE W0RS3. 
 
 A VTHOR. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 SWIFT, JONATHAN 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 Letter. 
 
 1667-1745. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 VI. 
 
 
 Treatise. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Political Pamphlets. 
 
 Drapier Letters. 
 
 Tale of a Tub. Poems to Stella. 
 
 Gulliver's Travels. 
 
 63. TALFOURD, T. N. 
 1795-1854. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Narration. 
 History. 
 
 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. 
 
 Poems. 
 
 Ion : a Trs^edv. 
 
 64. TENNYSON, ALFRED 
 1810- 
 
 IX. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 
 
 Rhetorician. Narration. Mand. In Memoriam. The Princess. 
 
 Idyls of the King. 
 
 65. THACKERAY, W. M. 
 1811-1863. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Satirist. Essay. Addison. Steele. Goldsmith. 
 
 Humorist. Tale. End of the Play. 
 
 Narration. Vanity Fair. Pendennis. The New- 
 
 66. THOMSON, JAMES 
 1700-1748. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Narration. The Seasons. Castle of Indolence. 
 
 67. WALLER, EDMUND 
 1605-1687. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. 
 
 Go, lovely Rose. 
 
 68. 
 
 WATTS, ISAAC 
 1674-1748. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. Hymns. 
 
 Treatise. Improvement of the Mind. 
 
HISTOET OP ENGLISH LITEEATUBE. 
 
 25 
 
 CHA RA CTEBIZA TION. 
 
 "In humor and irony, in the talent of debasing and defiling what 
 he hated, we join with the world in thinking the Dean of St. Patrick's 
 without rival." — Francis Jeffrey. 
 
 "His style is, in its kind, one of the models of English composition ; 
 it is proper, pure, precise, perspicuous, significant, nervous, deriving 
 a certain dignity from a masterly contempt of puerile ornaments." 
 — Machintosh. 
 
 REMABKS. 
 
 " Many of Talfourd's critical essays are remarkable for refinement Talfourd's essays are classed with those of 
 of observation and frequent felicity of phrase, [but] there is hardly the " Modem British Essayists." 
 one of them which is brought to a close without being partially im- 
 paired by that flux of words which was his bane." — North British 
 Revieie. 
 
 " There is no finer ear, nor more command of language, but he 
 wants a subject." — R. W. Emersm. 
 
 " ' In Memoriam ' comes more intimately home to English sym- 
 patliies than Lycidas or Adonais, and may be pointed to, perhaps, 
 as the one special monody to which beauty of form and feeling have 
 given a universal currency." — Landm Athenceum. 
 
 " Versification broken and irregular, but inexpressibly charming; 
 sometimes fantastic. Of the living poets of England, Tennyson at 
 this time occupies the highest rank." — Sir A. Alison. 
 
 " Power — sustained perfection of style." — Edinburgh Review. 
 
 " One of the greatest of novelists ; model of style and criticism.*'— 
 T. B. Shaw. 
 
 " It is Thackeray's aim to represent life as it is actually and his- 
 torically, — men and women as they are, in those situations in which 
 they are usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil, and of 
 strength and foible, which is to be found in their characters, and liable 
 only to those incidents which are of ordinary occurrence." — David 
 Masson. 
 
 'Every stanza of that charming allegory [Castle of Indo- "First to paint the rolling mystery of the 
 
 year, and to show that all its seasons were 
 but the varied God." — Christopher North. 
 
 lence]i at least the whole of the first part of it, gives out a group 
 of images from which the mind is reluctant to part, and a fiow 
 of harmony which the ear wishes to hear repeated." — Thomas 
 Campbell. 
 
 " Thomson is the best of our descriptive poets." — William Haz- 
 litt. 
 
 "Uniform elegance, felicity, and happiness of expression, and One of the best representatives of the poetry 
 exemption fi-om glaring faults." — Henry Hallam. of the time of Charles II. 
 
 "Every Sabbath, in every region of the earth where his na- 
 tive tongue is spoken, thousands and tens of thousands of voices 
 are sending the sacrifices ot prayer and praise to Grod in the 
 strains which he prepared for them a. century ago." — James MorU- 
 gomay. 
 
26 
 
 A VTHOB. 
 
 69. WILSON, JOHN 
 1785-1854. 
 
 IX. 
 
 KEtEESENTATITE NAMES IK THE 
 
 CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Essay. Caxtributions toSlacheood's. 
 
 Narration. Isle of Palms. Lights and Shadows of 
 Scottish Life. 
 
 70. WOLFE, CHARLES 
 1791-1823. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Burial of Sir John Moore. 
 
 71. WORDSWOBTH, WILLIAM Metaphysician. 
 1770-1850. 
 
 Tale. Ode on Immortality. Skylark. Lib- 
 
 erty. London Early Morning. 
 Narration. The Excursion. Tintern Abbey. 
 
 72. YOUNG, EDWARD 
 1681-1765. 
 VII. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Narration. Night Thoughts. 
 
HISTOET OJ ENGLISH LITEBATUBE. 
 
 27 
 
 CHABA CTERIZA TION. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 " Ardent and enthusiastic genius whose eloquence is as the rush John Wilson is better known as Christopher 
 of mighty waters." — Henry Hallam. North. 
 
 " The whole literature of England does not contain a more brilliant 
 scries of articles than those with which he has enriched the pages 
 of Blackwood's Magazine ; and what is rarer still, the generosity of 
 feeling by which they are distinguished equals their critical acute- 
 ness and delicacy of taste." — Sir A. Alison. 
 
 " In the lottery of literature .... Charles Wolfe has been one of the 
 few who have drawn the prize of probable immortality from a casual 
 
 gleam of inspiration thrown over a single poem But the lyric is 
 
 indeed full of fervor and freshness, and his triumph is not to be 
 grudged." — D. M. Moir. 
 
 \ 
 
 "An austere purity of language, both grammatically and logically ; 
 in short, a peifect appropriateness of the words to the meaning. 
 Secondly, a correspondent weight and sanity of thought and senti- 
 ment, won, not from books, but from the poet's own meditations. 
 
 They are fresh and have the dew uponthem Thirdly, the sinewy 
 
 strength and originality of single lines and paragraphs ; the frequent 
 curiosa/elicitas of his diction. Fourthly, the perfect truth of nature 
 
 in his images and descriptions Fifthly, a meditative pathos, a 
 
 union of deep and subtle thought with sensibility ; a sympathy with 
 man as man, — the sympathy, indeed, of a contemplator rather than 
 of a fellow-sufferer and co-mate, .... but of a contemplator from 
 whose view no diiTerence of rank conceals the sameness of the nature. 
 .... Lastly and pre-eminently, I challenge for this poet the gift of 
 imagination, in the highest and strictest sense of the word." — S. T. 
 
 An acquaintance with Wordsworth should be 
 begun through his minor poems, e. g. To a 
 Butterfly, Daisy, Skylark, Liberty, Immor- 
 tality, Milton, Humanity, London Early 
 Morning. His faults lie on the surface, and 
 he has been eulogized by Talfourd, North, 
 Sou they, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Sir A. Ali- 
 son, and Macaulay. A good article upon 
 his characteristics can be found in Littell's 
 Living Age, 1861, p. 323, or in the Fort- 
 nightly Review. 
 
 " Many splendid and happy conceptions, marred by false wit and 
 tfVerlabored antithesis : remarkably defective in progressive interest 
 and collective effect." — Thomas Campbell. 
 
 " Incapable of tenderness or passion."-.-^ra;ici» Jeffrey. 
 
28 
 
 REPBESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE 
 
 A VTHOR. WORKS. 
 
 1. ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD History of Eurcpe. 
 
 1792-1867. 
 
 IX. 
 
 2. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER The Maid's Tragedy 
 
 1586-1615. 1576-1625. 
 
 Ui. 
 
 3. BERKELEY, BISHOP GEO. Theory of Vision. 
 
 1684-1754. 
 TI. 
 
 *. BOLINGBROKE, LORD 
 1678-1751. 
 VI. 
 
 REASON FOR MENTION. 
 Leading historian and critic. 
 
 Representative dramatists. 
 
 Distinguished j£nglish metaphysician. 
 
 Reflections on Exile. IiStter to Sir Furnished Pope with philosophy. 
 William Windham. 
 
 5. BOSWELL, JAMES 
 1740-1795. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Life of Johnson. 
 
 " First among biographers." — Macau- 
 lay. 
 
 6. BROUGHAM, LORD 
 
 1779-1868. 
 
 IX. 
 
 7. BROWNE, SIR THOMAS 
 
 1605-1682. 
 IF. 
 
 Lives of Men of Letters; Beignof Distingnished as orator and statesman. 
 Crearge III. 
 
 igio Medici. 
 
 Founded the grandiloquent style. 
 
 8. BUCKLE, H. T. 
 
 1823-1862. 
 
 IX. 
 
 History of Civilization in England. Leading English philosopher of civil- 
 ization. 
 
 9. BURKE, EDMUND 
 1731-1797. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Vindication of Natural Society. England's greatest orator, and one of 
 Reflections on French Revolu- her most remarkable minds. 
 tion. Letter to a Noble Lord. 
 
 10. CHATTERTON, THOMAS Tragedy of Ella. Battle of Has- Known as the " Marvellous boy," and 
 
 1752-1770. 
 
 VII. 
 
 tings. 
 
 1 1 . CLARENDON, EARL OF History of the RMlion. 
 
 1608-1674. 
 
 IV. 
 
 as a literary forger. "No English 
 poet has ever equalled him at the 
 same age." — Campbell. 
 
 First contemporaneous histoir. 
 
 12. CROLY, GEORGE 
 1780-1860. 
 VIII. 
 
 Catiline. Salathiel. 
 
 Favorite delineator of Roman thought 
 and action. 
 
 13. CONGREVE, WILLIAM 
 1670-1729. 
 
 The Old Bachelor. 
 
 Representative dramatist of the time 
 of Charles II. 
 
HISTOBY OP ENGLISH LITEBATUBE. 
 
 29 
 
 AVTSOB. 
 
 U. DONKE, JOHN 
 
 1573-1631. 
 III. 
 
 15. EVELYN, JOHN 
 
 1620-1706. 
 IT. 
 
 16. FORD, JOHN 
 
 1586-1839. 
 HI. 
 
 17. FROUDE, JAMES A. 
 
 1818- 
 IX. 
 
 18. GARRICK, DAVID 
 
 1716-1779. 
 
 VII. 
 
 WORKS. SEASON FOB MENTION. 
 
 Valediction Forbidding Mourn- First of the " Concetti." 
 ing. 
 
 Diary (1641-1706). Terra. Sylva. Diary supplies the materials for a por- 
 tion of history. 
 
 The Broken Heart. 
 
 Elizabethan dramatist. 
 
 Sliort Essays en Great Subjects. Well-known modern historian. 
 History of England. History of 
 Ireland. 
 
 The Lying Valet. 
 
 Restored Shakespeare to the stage. 
 
 19. HALL, J. BISHOP 
 1574-1656. 
 m. 
 
 Occasional Meditationa. 
 
 First reflective essay. 
 
 20. HERRICK, ROBERT 
 
 1591-1674. 
 III. 
 
 21. HEYWOOD, JOHN 
 
 1506-1565 
 II. 
 
 Hesperides. 
 
 Play of Love. 
 
 " Best writer of the poetry of kisses.' 
 — Henry Hallam. 
 
 First known writer of Interludes. 
 
 22. HOBBES, THOMAS 
 1588-1679. 
 III. 
 
 Leviathan. Behemoth. 
 
 First English metaphysician. 
 
 23. HOOKER, RICHARD 
 155.3-1600. 
 HI. 
 
 Laivs of Ecclesiastical Polity. First figurative prose. 
 
 24. HOWELL, JAMES 
 1596-1666. 
 III. 
 
 Familiar Letters. 
 
 First letter. 
 
 25. LINGARD, JOHN 
 1771-1851. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 History of En^nd. 
 
 Leading Catholic historian. 
 
 26 MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES Vindiciae Gallice. Caatributims One of the British Essayists. "Great 
 
 1765-1832. to Edinburgh Reoieuj. Ethical labor, ingenuity, brilliancy, and vig- 
 
 VIII. Philosophy. or; too antithetical and dogmatic." 
 
 — William Hazlitt 
 
30 
 
 A VTHOR. 
 
 27 MANDEVUXE, JOHN DE Travds. 
 1300-1372. 
 
 EEPBESJCNTATIVE NAMES XS THE 
 WORKS. 
 
 REASON FOR MENTION. 
 
 First prose. First book of travels, 
 1356. 
 
 28 MONTAGU, LADY MARY W. Later$. 
 1690-1762. 
 
 VI. 
 
 29. MORE, SIR THOSIAS 
 1480-1535. 
 II. 
 
 " Style flowing and flexible ; want of 
 delicacy, refinement of feeling, and 
 pure moral sentiments. Models of 
 epistolary s^le." — C. D. Cleveland. 
 
 Utopia. Life of Edward V. First history. 
 
 30. NEWTON, SIR ISAAC 
 1642-1727. 
 
 VI. 
 
 PhilosophuB Naturalis Principia England's first great physicist. 
 Mathematica. 
 
 31 OTWAY, THOMAS 
 1651-1685. 
 
 V. 
 
 32. PEPYS, SAMUEL 
 
 1633-1703. 
 
 IV. 
 
 33. PERCY, BISHOP 
 
 1728-1811. 
 
 VII 
 
 34. READE, CHARLES 
 
 1814-1884. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Venice Preserved. 
 
 Pepys' Diary. 
 
 Flay still on the stage. 
 
 First literary gossip. 
 
 Reliques of English Poetry. First collector of ballads. 
 
 Peg Woffingtmn. Dora. 
 
 35. RICHARDSON, SAMUEL Pamela. Clarissa BarUme. 
 
 1689-1761. 
 
 Leading " dramatizer.' 
 
 First novelist, 1740. 
 
 VII. 
 
 36. RUSSELL, LADY 
 
 1636-1723. 
 v. 
 
 37. SACKVILLE, EARL OF 
 
 1536-1608. 
 II. 
 
 38. SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP 
 
 1554-1586. 
 III. 
 
 Letters. 
 
 Gorboduc. 
 
 First literary correspondence 
 
 First tragedy, 1561. 
 
 Defence of Poesie. 
 
 Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. 
 
 Fii-st literary criticism. 
 
 S9. SHIRLEY, JAMES 
 1.596-1666. 
 III. 
 
 The Maid's Revenge. 
 
 " The last of a great race."^CAarfa« 
 Lamb. 
 
A VTHOR. 
 
 40. SOUTHWELL, ROBERT 
 1560-1595. 
 In. 
 
 41 STEELE, SIR RICHARD 
 
 1675-1729. 
 VI. 
 
 42 SURREY, EARL OF 
 
 1516-1547. 
 II. 
 
 HISTOEY OF ENGLISH LITEBATUEE. 31 
 
 WORKS. SEASON FOR MENTIOlf. 
 
 St. Peter's Complaint. 
 
 Founder of modem religious poetry. 
 
 The Conscious Lovers. Christian Began the Spectator series. 
 Hero. 
 
 Translation of 2d and 4th Books First blank verse and first sonnet, 
 of Virgil's ^neid. 
 
 43. TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM Essay on Ancient and Modem With Dryden formed prose styib 
 
 1628-1698. 
 
 V. 
 
 44. TURNER, SHARON 
 
 1768-1847. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 45. UDALL, NICHOLAS 
 
 1506-1557. 
 II. 
 
 46. WALPOLE, HORACE 
 
 1717-1797. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Learning. 
 History of England. 
 
 Ralph Royster Doyster. 
 
 Castle of Otranto. 
 
 47 WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM The Way of the World. 
 1640-1715. 
 
 V. 
 
 4f WYCKLIFFE, JOHN DE 
 1324-1.384. 
 1. 
 
 Translation of the Bible. 
 
 " Replete with Anglo-Saxon and other 
 learning." — Chancellor Kent. 
 
 First comedy, 1551. 
 
 First prose romance. 
 
 Represents the " profligate drama.'' 
 
 First English Bible, I3S1. 
 
32 
 
 A VTHOB. 
 
 I. BANCROFT, GEORGE 
 1800- 
 
 EEPBESENTAXIVE NAMES IN THE 
 
 FOBM. REPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 CLASS. 
 Critic. 
 
 2. BROWN, CHAS. BROCKDEN Rhetorician. 
 1771-1810. 
 
 History. History of the United States. 
 
 Tale. Poems. 
 
 Essay. Contributions to the N. Am. Reviao. 
 
 Narration. Ec^r Huntley. 
 
 3. BRTANT, WILLIAM CUIXEN Rhetoiician 
 1794-1879. 
 
 Tale. Thanatopsis. ■• 
 
 Narration. The Embargo. The Ages. 
 
 4. BUTLER, WILLIAM ALLEN Satirist. 
 1825- 
 
 Essay. Contributions to Democratic Review. 
 
 Narration. - Nothing to Wear. Two Millions. 
 
 5. CAREY, ALICE 
 
 1820-1871 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. Poems. 
 
 Narration. Clovemook. Hagan a Story of Ta 
 day. 
 
 6. CHANNING, WM. ELLERY Metaphysician. Essaiy. Milton. NapoUm. 
 
 1780-1842. Address. National Literature. 
 
 7 CHILD, LYDIA M. 
 1802-1880. 
 
 Sentimentalist. History., Biographies of Good Women. 
 
 Narration. Hobomok. Philothea. 
 
 B. COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE Rhetorician. 
 1789-1851. 
 
 Narration. Deerslayer. Red Skins. Spy. Last 
 
 of the Mohicans. 
 History. History of the Navy of the U. S. Lives 
 
 of American Naval Officers. 
 
 9. CURTIS, GEORGE W. 
 1824- 
 
 10. EDWARDS, JONATHAN 
 1703-1758. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 Humorist. 
 
 Metaphysician. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Oration. 
 
 Potiphar Papers. 
 
 Nile Notes of a Howadji. Howadji in 
 
 Syria. Lotos-Eaters. 
 Duty of the American Scholar to PoZiV 
 
 tics and tJie Times. 
 
 Treatise. The freedom of the Will and Morak 
 
 Agency. 
 
 II EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Metaphysician. Tale. Poems. 
 
 1803-1882. Essay. Conduct of Life. Representative MeH~ 
 
HISTOKT OF ENGLISH LITEBATUHE. 33 
 
 CHARACTERIZATION. REMARKS. 
 
 " Conscientious reference to authorities, and careful critidsm."— 
 Heeren. 
 " Liberality, fairness, and research." — Edinburgh Review. 
 
 " He disregards rules, and cares little for criticism. But his style 
 is clear and nervous, .... free ftom affectations, indicating a sin- 
 gular sincerity and depth of feeling." — R. W. GnswoM. 
 
 " In the beautiful the genius of Bryant finds its prime delight."— Translator of Homer. Compiler of " Library 
 
 Christopher North. of Poetry and Song." Editor N. T. Even- 
 
 " Pure high sentiment." — Willard Phillips. ing Post. 
 " Overflows with natural religion." — Retrospective Review. 
 
 " He has wit and humor, a lively fancy, and a style natural and 
 flexible, abounding in felicities of expression." — R. W. Griswold. 
 
 " Simple, natural, truthful ; keen sense of pathos and humor." — 
 J. G. Whittier. 
 
 " The elements of genius are poured forth in her verses with aston- 
 ishing richness and prodigality." — E. P. Whipple. 
 
 " Talent for narration and delineation of character." — William 
 Culkn Bryant. 
 
 " Looks through external forms in search of the secret, mysterious o 
 
 principles of thought, action, and being ; mind in the abstract is his 
 constant theme." — Alexander H. Everett. 
 
 " Whatever comes to her from without, whether through the eye or 
 ear, whether in nature or art, is reflected in her writings with a halo 
 of beauty thrown about it by her own fancy." — C. D. Cleveland. 
 
 " Wrote for mankind at large ; hence it is that he has earned a 
 fame wider than any author of modern times. The creations of his 
 genius shall survive through centuries to come, and only perish with 
 our language." — William Cullen Bryant. 
 
 " Has left a place in literature not easily supplied." — W. Irving. 
 
 " Graceful and polished style, pure taste, fine fancy, grace of delir- 
 ery." — Cleveland. 
 " Vivid feeling and fancy." — Leigh Hunt. 
 
 " Un the arena of metaphysics he stood the highest of all his con- 
 temporaries ; and we know not what most to admire in him, whether 
 the deep philosophy that issued from his pen, or the humble or child- 
 like piety that issued from his pulpit." — Dr. Chalmers. 
 
 " Sui generis ; vague nobleness and thorough sweetness ; conquers 
 minds as well as hearts wherever he goes, and, without convincing 
 anybody's reason of any one thing, exalts their reason, and makes 
 it better worth having." — Harriet Martineau. 
 
34 
 
 KEPKESENTATIVB XAMES IIT THE 
 
 12. 
 
 AVTBOB. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 BEPBESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 ;tt, edwaed 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Dirge of Alaric. 
 
 1794-1865. 
 
 
 Oration. 
 
 Phi Beta Kappa Oration. 
 
 ;lin, benjamin 
 
 PJiysicist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Letters and Papers on Electricity. Es- 
 
 1706-1790. 
 
 
 
 says on General Politics, Economy,, 
 and Commerce, Essays on Religious 
 and Moral Subjects, and the Economy 
 of Life. TAtcts Historical and Po 
 litirjil. 
 
 
 
 Letter. 
 
 Correspondence. 
 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Autobiography. 
 
 14. GILES, HENRY 
 
 1819-1882. 
 
 SeutinientalUt. 
 
 15. HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE Sentimentalist. 
 1795-1869. 
 
 Lecture. Illustrations of Genius in some of its Re- 
 
 lations to Culture and Society. 
 
 Tale. Fanny. Bums. Marco Bozzaris. 
 
 16. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER Critic 
 1757-1804. 
 
 Essay. The Federalist. Papers by Camillas, 
 
 and Pacificus. 
 
 17. HAWTHORNE, NATH'L 
 1805-1864. 
 
 Metapnysician. Tale. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Tanglewood Tales. Mosses from an Old 
 Manse. Twice-told Tales. 
 
 House of the Seven Gables. The Scar- 
 let Letter. Marble Faun. 
 
 18. HILDRETH, RICHARD 
 1807-1865. 
 
 19. HILLARD, GEORGE S. 
 1808-1879. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Essay. 
 Treatise. 
 History. 
 
 Critic. 
 
 Contributions to Review. 
 
 Theory of Politics. 
 
 History of the United States. 
 
 Six Months in Italy. 
 Series of Readert. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITBBATUEE. 
 
 35 
 
 CHABA CTEBIZA TION. 
 
 " Style rich and glowing, but alwaj^s under the command of good 
 taste and sound judgment. Inspiration of a generous and compre- 
 hensive patriotism." — George S. Billard. 
 
 "A singular felicity of induction guided all his researches, and by 
 very small means he established very grave truths." — Sir Humphrey 
 Davy. 
 
 " His genius ranks him with the Galileos and Newtons of the old 
 world." — Lord Brougham. 
 
 " Soundness, sagacity, quickness of penetration, and lively imagi- 
 nation. Style has the vigor and conciseness of Swift, without his 
 harshness." — Francis Jeffrey. 
 
 " Franklin was the greatest diplomatist of the eighteenth century. 
 He never spoke a word too soon ; he never spoke a word too late ; he 
 never spoke a word too much ; ho never failed to speak the right word 
 in the right place." — George Bancroft. 
 
 " Works of merit." — American Cyclopaedia, 1869 
 
 SEMABK8. 
 
 " Poor Richard's Almanac " was one of the 
 most influential books that ever issued 
 from the American press. 
 
 " Pci-vading grace, natural brilliancy of wit, freedom, yet refine- 
 ment of sentiment, sparkling flow of tiincy, power of personification 
 blended with high finish and exquisite nicety of taste." — R. W. 
 Gristpa'd. 
 
 " Master of metrical harmony." — W. C. Bryant. 
 
 " The Federalist derives its weight and power from Hamilton." — 
 George T. Curtis. 
 
 " Superior comprehensiveness, practicalness, and originality ; con- 
 densed and polished diction." — R. W. Griswold. 
 
 " Knows the vital principles and fundamental conditions of gov- 
 ernment." — Guizot. 
 
 " Model of eloquence and fascinating orator." — Judge Story. 
 
 " Style as clear as running water ; external form but the represent- 
 ative of internal being." — Longfdhw. 
 
 " Metaphysical or soulful ; care in style, authenticity, artistic ex- 
 position ; reliable as the best of Scott ; resembles Balzac in analysis of 
 iuiraan passion and consciousness ; as true to humanity as Dickens." 
 — H. T. Tuckerman. 
 
 " Strong and manly style, power of description and narration as 
 iin historian. The prominent qualities of his mind are courage and 
 lionesty." — C. D. Cleoeland. 
 
 "Immense information, novel and judicious criticisms, thoughts "Hillard's Sixth Header" is a remarkable 
 
 and feelings beautifully expressed." — Fraser's Magazine. 
 
 "Taste fastidious ; excels in arrangement and condensation; ex- 
 pression imaginative." — Rufus W. Griswold. 
 
 " Without egotism, personal or patriotic ; style pointed and full of 
 happy expressions and happy images." — London Quarterly Review. 
 
 collection of judicious criticisms and char- 
 acteristic selections ; from being a text- 
 book, its value to the scholar is less likely 
 to be known. 
 
36 
 
 EEPEESEITTATIVE NAMES IS TUB 
 
 
 AUTHOB. 
 
 CLASS. 
 
 FOBU. 
 
 20. 
 
 HOFFMAN, CHARLES P. 
 
 Bhetorician. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 
 1806- 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 21. 
 
 HOLLAND, J. G. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 
 1819-1881. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 BEPBESBNTATIVE WOBKS. 
 
 Love's Calendar. 
 
 Wild Scenes in the Forest Prairie. 
 
 Timothy Titcomb's Letters. 
 Marble Prophecy. Kathrina. Bitter- 
 Sweet. The Bay-Path. 
 
 22. HOLMES, O. W. 
 1809- 
 
 HUDSON, HENRY N. 
 
 1814-1886. 
 
 Hamorist. 
 Satirist. 
 
 Critic 
 
 Essay. The Autocrai of the Bredhfoit-Tahle. 
 
 Mechanism of Morals. 
 Tale. Old Ironsides. The One-Hoss Shay. 
 
 Narration. Elsie Vernier. 
 
 Treatise. Life, Art, and Characters ofSlidkespeare. 
 
 Lectures on Shakespeare.. 
 
 24. IRVING, WASHINGTON 
 1783-1859. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Salmagundi. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Tales of a Traveller. 
 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Knickerbocker. N. Y. Sketch-Book. 
 Bractbridge Hall. Wolfert's Roost. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Life of Columbus; of Wasliingtoa; of 
 Goldsmith. 
 
 25. KENNEDY, JOHN P. 
 1795-1860. 
 
 Rhetorician. Essay. Swallow-Bam. 
 
 Narration. Horseshoe Robinson. 
 
 History. Memoirs of t/ie Life of William West. 
 
 26. LONGFELLOW, H. W. 
 
 1807-1882. 
 
 27. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Humorist. 
 1819- Critic 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 
 Tale. 
 
 
 History. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Hyperion. Kavanaugh. Outre-Mer. 
 Evangeline. Hiawatha. Miles Stan- 
 dish. 
 
 Excelsior. Psalm of Life. 
 
 The Divine Tragedy. 
 
 Fable of the Critics. Agassiz. The 
 Crisis. Biglow Papers. 
 
 Among My Books. My Study Win- 
 dows. Some of the Old Poets. 
 
 28. MEEK, A. B. 
 
 1814-1865. 
 
 X9. MITCHELL. D. G. 
 1822- 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. Balaklava. 
 
 Narration. The Red Eagle. RomatUic Scenes in 
 S. W. History. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Narration. Dream Life. Reveries of a Bachelor. 
 
HISTOKT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
 VHABA CTEBIZA TION. 
 
 3? 
 
 SBMARKS. 
 
 " Graphic delineations of nature, spirited sketches of men and man- 
 ners, and richness and purity of style." — Rujus W. Griswold. 
 
 " We mean it as very high praise when we say that Bitter-Sweet is Under the editorial management of Dr. Hol- 
 one of the few books that have found the secret of drawing up and land the Springfield Hepnblican made the 
 assimilating the juices of this new world of ours." — Atlantic Monthly. reputation which it has so long and so well 
 
 deserved. 
 
 " Most concise, apt, and effective poet of the school of Pope."— 
 H. T. Tucherman. 
 
 " Mr. Hudson has enriched the literature of our language with 
 the fruits of his studies, mastering the difficulties of the poet with 
 wonderful ingenuity, seizing the spirit of his characterization with 
 kindred subtlety, and in a singularly nervous and racy style pre- 
 senting some of the finest specimens of critical analysis of which 
 any modem writer can boast." — S. Austen Alliixme. 
 
 " Rich and original humor, great refinement of feeling and del- 
 icacy of sentiment. Style accurately finished, easy, and transparent- 
 Accurate observer: his descriptions are correct, animated, and 
 beautiful." — George S. Hillard. 
 
 Poets and Poetry of Europe, 
 of Dante. 
 
 Translation 
 
 " Altogether one of our most genial, lively, and agreeable writers. 
 His style is airy, easy, and graceful, but various, and always in keep- 
 ing with his subject. He excels both as a describer and as a racon- 
 teur." — R. A. GrisiBold. 
 
 "Affluence of imagination." — E. P. Whipple. 
 
 " Purity of tone, tenderness, picturesque simplicity." — James Rus- 
 sell LouxU. 
 
 " His poetry expresses a universal sentiment in the simplest and 
 most melodious manner." — George W. Curtis. 
 
 " Beauty of imagination, delicacy of taste, wide sympathy, and mild 
 earnestness." — George GilfiUan. 
 
 " Conception superior to execution; imagination vivid, and fen<y Throughout My Study Windows are scat- 
 fruitful ; purity and elevation of iee&ag."— George S. Silhrd. ered some of our most judicious art criti- 
 cisms. Mr. Lowell always writes effectfrely, 
 but is sometimes reproached with want of 
 elegance in language and structure. 
 
 " The poetry of A. B. Meek is marked by exquisite melody of Meek'a poem of Balaklava was published un- 
 versification, great delicacy of sentiment, and a manliness of feeling der an assumed name, 
 rarely met •mih."—South.Lit. Mess. Dec. 1857. 
 
 " Prose graphic and musical, poetical in spirit, and characterized by 
 purity as well as tenderness of feeling." — George S. Hillard. 
 
38 
 
 A VTBOB. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE 
 
 CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 30. MOKEIS, GEORGE P. 
 1802-1864. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. 
 
 Woodman, spare that Tree. 
 
 31. MOTLEY, JNO. LOTHROP Ehetoridan. 
 
 1814-1877. 
 
 History. History of the United Netherlands. Rise 
 
 of the Dutch Bepulilie. Life and Times 
 of John Bameveldt. 
 
 32 PARKER, THEODORE 
 1812-1860. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Essay. 
 Address. 
 Tale 
 
 Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. 
 
 Sermons. 
 
 Poems. 
 
 33 PARSONS, T. W. 
 1819- 
 
 Rbetorieian. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Poems. 
 
 34 PAULDING, JAMES K. 
 1778-1860. 
 
 Humorist. 
 Satirist. 
 
 Salmagundi. 
 Narration. John Bull and Brother Jonathan. 
 
 35 PHILLIPS, WENDELL 
 1811-1884. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Oration. Antislavery Orations. 
 
 Essay. The Lost Arts. 
 
 36 PIERPONT, JOHN 
 1785-1866. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. 
 
 Airs of Palestine. 
 Series of Headers. 
 
 37 POE, EDGAR ALLAN 
 I 81 9-1 849. 
 
 Rhetorician. Tale. Annabel Lee. The Raven. Prose 
 
 Tales. 
 
 38 PRENTICE, GEORGE D. Hnmorist Essay. 
 
 1802-1869. Tale. 
 
 Editorials. Prenticeiana. 
 The Tempest. 
 
 39 PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. Rhetorician. Essay. 
 
 1796-1859. History. 
 
 Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. 
 Ferdinand and Isabella. Conquest of 
 Mexico; of Peru. Philip U. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITEEATUKB. 
 
 CBARA CTERIZA TION. 
 " Best American song-writer." — T. B. Shaie. 
 
 39 
 
 BBMARKS. 
 
 Together with N. P. Willis, Morris published 
 " The Prose and Poetry of Europe and 
 America." 
 
 " Style always copious, occasionally familiar, sometimes stilted and 
 declamatory." — Guizot. 
 
 " Research and accuracy." — W. H. Prescott. 
 , " Brilliant style, generous in tone, penetrated with the true philos- 
 ophy of history."— GaM-jre S. Hillard. 
 
 " Fitness to reach the heart of mankind, and to feed its inmost Theodore Parker was an iconoclast, and Hi 
 longings."— TbAn Weiss. services must be judged from this stand 
 
 point. 
 
 " His verses are clear alike to the ear and the brain, and their old- Translator of Dante. 
 fashioned music is in keeping with their vigorous sense, fine humor, 
 sharp but not ungenial wit, and delicate though always manly senti- 
 ment."— iJ. W. Griswold. 
 
 " Every style of the facetious and satirical ; more whimsical than 
 Irving, less refined. Descriptive power, skill in character-writing, 
 natural humor."— i2u/1is W. Griswold. 
 
 " Perfectly easy, quiet, almost conversational style ; thoroughly 
 prepared, he speaks as if extemporaneously ; most polished sentences, 
 most brilliant epigrams, most withering sarcasms; his intellectual 
 bitterness is coated with honey." 
 
 " Imagine how many men and women now living first learned to 
 love beautiful prose and finished verse through early familiarity with 
 Pierpont's First Class Book." — S. T. Tuckerman. 
 
 " Fictions as matter-of-fact as De Foe ; tales as weird and wonder- 
 ful as Hoffman ; amatory strains trembling with passion and suffused 
 with the purple glow of love. Dirges express the dreariest essence 
 of desolation." — George Gilfillan. 
 
 " Three fifths genius and two fifths fudge." — James RusseU Lowdl. 
 
 " Heart squeezed out by. the mind." — Idem. 
 
 " The Prenticeiana are famous : .... an instructive and amusing 
 commentary on the management of elections, newspaper literature, 
 and political oratory." — Allihone. 
 
 ' Excellent history." — Henry Hallam. 
 " An enduring history." — Von Huiriboldt. 
 ' A classic in our language." — George S. Hillard. 
 " Faultless lucidity." — George Bancroft. 
 
 " Talents artistic rather than philosophical ; skillful narrative and 
 graceful style." — H. T. Tuckerman. 
 
40 
 
 EEPEBSENTATIVE NAMES IS THE 
 
 A VTHOB. 
 
 40. REED. HENEY 
 
 1808-1854. 
 
 CLASS. FORM. BEPBESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Lecture. Lectures on English Literature. Lectura 
 
 on History as illustrated hy Shake- 
 speare. 
 
 41. SABGENT, EPES 
 1814-1880. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. Songs of the Sea. 
 
 History. Velasco : a Tragedy. Life and Services 
 
 of Henry Clay. Series of Headers. 
 
 42 
 
 SAXE, JOHN G. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 Narration, 
 
 
 181C-1887. 
 
 Satirist. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 43. 
 
 SEDGEWICK, CATH. M. 
 
 1789-1867. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 Narration. 
 
 44. 
 
 SIGOUENEY, LYDIA H. 
 1791-1865. 
 
 Sentimentalist. 
 
 Tale. 
 Essay. 
 
 45. SPARKS, JABED 
 
 1794-1866. 
 
 46. STOWE, HAREIET B. 
 1812- 
 
 47. TAYLOE, BAYARD 
 
 1825-1879. 
 
 Sentimentalist. History. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Essay. 
 
 Narration. 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Tale. 
 Narration. 
 
 The Money King. The Times. Pro- 
 gress. Bape of the Lock. 
 Humorous and Satirical Poems. 
 
 Stories fir Yoang Persons. Tales and 
 
 Sketches of Home. 
 Hope Leslie. Poor Rich Man, and Rich 
 
 Poor Man. 
 
 Tales and Essays for Children. 
 Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, 
 ters to Young Ladies. 
 
 Let- 
 
 The Diplomatic Correspondence of tibe 
 American Reoolution. The Writings 
 of George Washington. Tlie Library 
 of American Biography. Life of Ben- 
 jamin Franklin. 
 
 Little Foxes. Queer Little People. House 
 
 and Home Papers. 
 Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dred. Oldtawn 
 
 Folks. Minister's Wooing. 
 
 Ximena. E^mes of Travel. 
 Eldorado. Land of the Saracens. 
 At Home and Abroad. Visit to China. 
 India and Japan. 
 
 48. TICKNOR, GEORGE T. 
 
 1791-1871. 
 
 49. TUCKEEMAN, H. T. 
 
 1813-1871. 
 
 5C TWAIN, MARK 
 1833- 
 
 Critic. 
 
 Critic. 
 
 Humorist. 
 
 History. History of Spanish Literature. 
 
 Essay. Contributions to North Am. Review. 
 
 Italian Sketch Book. Artist Life. 
 Thoughts on the Poets. Essays Bio- 
 graphicaland Critical. Characteristici 
 of Literature. 
 
 Narration. Inruxents Abroad. Roughing It. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUKE. 
 
 41 
 
 CHA EA CTEEIZA TION. 
 
 BEMAEKS. 
 
 ■" A book full of taste, beauty, and learning." — North Am. Review. Mr. Eeed was lost in the "Arctic." His books 
 " The productions of a refined and gentle mind." — Lon. Athenceum. are written by a genuine lover of literature 
 
 and are among the best examples of sub- 
 jective criticism. 
 
 " Worthy of the subject both in sentiment and style." — S. T. 
 Tuckertnan. 
 
 " He has written of the sea with more freshness and graphic power, 
 with more true fancy and poetic feeling, than Falconer and many 
 others of a higher reputation." — E. P. Whipple. 
 
 " A writer of sparkling and occasionally pungent vers de aacieti, 
 who has for many years enjoyed wide popularity in the U. S., and 
 ought to meet with a similar reception in England." — Lon. Athenceum. 
 
 " Writes with uncommon elegance and purityC?) : never common- 
 place ; occasionally diflFuse." — W. Hillard (North Am. Review, 32_). 
 
 " Great facility in versification, fluent in thought and language, 
 triteness and irregularity at times." — E. P. Whipple. 
 
 " Marshall and Sparks are very accurate." — Washington Irving. 
 " Name associated imperishably with our Eevolutionary period." 
 — Edward Everett. 
 
 " Knowledge of human nature, power of description, tone of Chris- 
 tian morality, truthfulness to God and to humanity, richness and 
 beauty of thought and language." — C. D. Cleveland. 
 
 " Highest distinction from his poetry." — Rufas W. Griswold. 
 
 "His prose is equable and clear, in the flowing style ; the nar- 
 ration of a genial, healthy observer of the many manners of the world 
 which he has seen in the most remarkable portions of its four quar- 
 ters." — I)uyckinck. 
 
 " Written with grijat conscientiousness, and with singular critical 
 cricumspection of judgment." — F. Wolf. 
 
 " One of the most elegant and discriminating of critics." — Ru/u3 
 W. Griswold. 
 " One of the ablest essayists of any country." — Valpareau. 
 
 Translation of Faust. 
 
 " Samuel Langhome Clemens." 
 
42 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE 
 
 AVTBOR. 
 
 51 WARE, WILLIAM 
 1797-1852. 
 
 CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 
 
 Rhetorician. Narration. Zenobia. Julian. Probus. 
 
 52. WARNER, CHAS. DUDLEY Hnmorist. 
 
 1829- 
 
 Essav. 
 
 53. WAYLAND, FRANCIS Metaphysician. Treatise. 
 
 1796-1865. 
 
 " Address. 
 
 My Summer in a Garden. 
 
 Elements of Political Ecmonui. Element 
 
 of Moral Science. 
 Duties of American Citizenship. 
 
 54. WEBSTER, DANIEL 
 1782-1852. 
 
 Sentimentalist.. Oration. Trial of J. F. Knapp. Repli/ to Hayne. 
 
 55. WHIPPLE, E. P. 
 
 1819-1886. 
 
 dS. WHITTIER, J. G. 
 
 1808- 
 
 Rhetorician. 
 
 Essay. 
 
 Sentimentalist. Tale. 
 
 Contributions to N. Am. Eeoiew. Es- 
 says and Reviews. Lectures on Sub- 
 jects connected with Literature and Life. 
 Character and Cliaracteristic Men. 
 Literature oftlie Age ofElizaJb^h. 
 
 Voices of Freedom. In War Times. 
 Snow-Bound. 
 
 57. WINTHROP, THEODORE Rhetorician. 
 
 1828-1861. 
 
 58. WIRT, WILLIAM Bhetorician. 
 
 1772-1834. 
 
 Narration. Cecil Dreeme. John Brent. 
 Essay. Contributions to Atlantic Monthly. 
 
 History. Tux> Principal Arguments in the Trial of 
 
 Aaron Burr. 
 Lifi of Patrick Henry ; of Jefferson. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITEBATUEE. 
 
 C3ARA CTEBIZA TION. 
 
 " Rivalled Loeklmrt."— 5: T. Tuckermam. 
 
 " There is not a trace of modem habits or modes of thinking ; and 
 if Ware had been possessed by the monomania of Macpherson or 
 ChattertoD, it would have rested with himself to produce these let- 
 ters as a close and literal version of manuscripts of the third century." 
 — Harriet Martmeau. 
 
 43 
 
 REMARKS 
 
 " Clear, exact, judicious." — Valpareau. 
 
 " Vigorous, logical mind ; writes with clearness and energy ; wide 
 range and grasp of thought, power of intellectual construction and 
 analysis." — George S. Hillard. 
 
 " Stringent, terse, simple, strong." — Chancellor Kent. 
 
 " High standard of truth ; convince him and he cannot reply; he 
 cannot look the truth in the face and oppose it by argument."— Jb&> 
 C. Calhoun. 
 
 " None of our critics is more successful in Illustrating truth or in 
 producing a fair and distinct impression of an authoT."-^Iiufits W. 
 Griswold. 
 
 " Fineness of perception, independence of judgment, and unde- 
 viating regard for the true interests of intelligence." — G. Vapareau. 
 
 " Earnestness of tone, high moral purpose, energy of expression, 
 spirit of a sincere and fearless reformer, themes drawn largely from 
 the history, traditions, manners, and scenery of New England. De- 
 scribes natural scenery correctly and beautifully, and has a vein of 
 tenderness." — George S. Hillard. 
 
 " Displays a wonderful power of imagin^ion," — TriUmer. 
 
 Killed at Great Bethel. 
 
 " I do not think highly of his literary merits ; abilities more bril- 
 liant than solid, rapid but skillful command of language, prolific but 
 not chaste or correct fency ; opinions neither new nor striking," — 
 Rufa W. Griswold. 
 
 " Style polished and forcible." — TriUmer. 
 
 Wirt's "Blind Preacher" has entranced 
 thousands of young people, and is a mas- 
 terpiece of descriptive writing. 
 
44 
 
 AVTBOR. 
 
 I. ADAMS, JOHN 
 
 1735-1826. 
 
 2. ADAMS, J. Q. 
 
 1767-1848. 
 
 3 AGASSIZ, LOUIS J. R. 
 1807-1873. 
 
 4. ALCOTT, A. BRONSON 
 
 1799- 
 
 5. ALCOTT, LOUISA M. 
 
 1833- 
 
 6. ANTHON, CHARLES 
 
 1797-1867. 
 
 7. AUDUBON, JOHN J. 
 
 1782-1851. 
 
 8. BEECHEB, H. W. 
 
 1813-1887. 
 
 9. BURRITT, ELIHU 
 
 1811-1879 
 
 10 BUSHNELL, HORACE C 
 1804-1876. 
 
 11 CALHOUN, JOHN C. 
 1782-1850. 
 
 12 CAREY, HENRY C. 
 1793-1879. 
 
 EEPRESENTATIVE KAME6 IS THE 
 WORKS. 
 
 REASON FOR MENTION. 
 
 Works. " The great pillar of support to the Dec- 
 
 laration of Independence, and its 
 ablest advocate and champion on 
 the floor of the House, was John 
 Adams." — Thomas Jefferson. 
 
 Eulogies on Monroe, Madison, and ^ statesman of world-wide reputation. 
 LafayOte. 
 
 Contributions to Natural Hilary Leading naturalist. 
 0/ U. S. 
 
 Tablets. 
 
 Little Women 
 
 Editions of the Classics. 
 
 " The Orphic Sage." Celebrated con- 
 versationist. 
 
 The best-known author of juvenila 
 literature. 
 
 Known to all American students as a 
 classical scholar. 
 
 Birds of America. Quadrupeds Leading ornithologist. 
 of America. 
 
 Star-Papers. 
 Lectures to Young Men. 
 
 Mission of Great Suffering. 
 
 Perhaps the best known of American 
 pulpit orators. 
 
 Known as the " Learned Blacksmith,'' 
 and celebrated for the number of lan- 
 guages with which he is acquainted. 
 
 Nature and the Supernatural, as Celebrated theologian. 
 together constituting the one Sys- 
 tem of God. 
 
 Works. 
 
 Principles of Social Science. 
 
 Praised by Daniel Webster for the 
 closeness of his logic ; identified with 
 national history for forty years. 
 
 " Among the very first of political econ- 
 omists." — C D. Cleveland. 
 
 13. CHEEVER, GEORGE B. 
 1807- 
 
 14 CHOATE, RUFUS 
 1799-1859. 
 
 15. CLAY, HENRY 
 1777-1852. 
 
 American Commonplace Book of " Evinces genius, scholarship, and in- 
 
 Prose. Studies in Poetry, dustry in an eminent degree." — C. 
 
 with Biographical Sketches of £>. Cleveland. 
 the Poets. 
 
 Orations. 
 
 Speeches. 
 
 Distinguished advocate. 
 
 Distinguished orator and statesman. 
 
HISTOBT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
 
 45 
 
 A VTBOR. 
 
 16. COZZENS, FRED S. 
 
 1818-1869. 
 
 17. DANA, JAMES D. 
 
 1813- 
 
 8. DANA, K. H., Sr. 
 1787-1879. 
 
 19. DANA, R. H., Jb. 
 
 1815- 
 
 WOBKS. 
 Sparrvwgrass Papers. 
 
 Mineralogy. Geology. 
 
 The Baccaneer. 
 
 Tux) Years before the Mast. 
 
 SEASON FOB MENTION. 
 
 One of the most delicate of our humor- 
 ists. 
 
 Leading physicist. 
 
 Editor of North American Review, and 
 one of the first to give reputation • 
 its literary criticisms. 
 
 Success of the-venture 
 
 20. DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM Physiology. Intellectual Develop- Leading physiologist. 
 1811- ment of Europe. 
 
 21. DWIGHT, TIMOTHY 
 1752-1847. 
 
 System (^Divinity. 
 
 Well known as a theologian and as 
 president of Yale College. 
 
 22. EVERETT, ALEXANDER H. Critical and Miscellanems Essays. Editor of North American Review, and 
 1 790-1 847. pronounced by Cleveland " one of the 
 
 most eminent literary men of our 
 country.'' 
 
 23. FLINT, TIMOTHY 
 1780-1840. 
 
 Recollections of Ten Years passed " First important contribution to Amer- 
 inthe Valley of the Mississippi. ican geography." — C.D.Cleveland. 
 
 24. FULLER,, MARGARET 
 
 1810-1850. 
 
 25. GOODRICH, SAMUEL G. 
 
 1793-1860. 
 
 26. GRAY, ASA 
 
 1810- 
 
 27. GRISWOLD, RXJFUS W. 
 
 1815-1857. 
 
 28, HEDGE, F. H. 
 
 1805- 
 
 29. HOPKINS, MARK 
 
 1802-1887. 
 
 SO. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS 
 1737-1791, 
 
 Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Known also as Marchesa d'Ossoli. Cel- 
 At Home and Abroad. ebrated as a conversationist. Lost at 
 
 Thirty-Six Volumes of Tales. 
 Manual of Botany. 
 
 " Peter Parley." Published The Token, 
 our first annual. 
 
 Leading botanist. 
 
 Poets and Poetry of America. Represents with Duyckinck our Amer- 
 Prose Writers of America. ican anthology. 
 Female Poets of America. 
 
 Prose Writers of Germany. 
 
 Best collected translations from the 
 German. 
 
 Lectures on the Evidences of Chris- One of the best loved and most esteemed 
 tianity. The Law of Love, and of college presidents ; known through- 
 Love as Law. out America by his teachings. 
 
 The New Roof. 
 
 Signer of Declaration of Independence ; 
 well known as an agreeable satirist. 
 
46 
 
 BEPRESENTATIVE NAMES IK THE 
 
 A UTHOR. 
 
 31. JEFFERSON, THOMAS 
 1743-1826. 
 
 .32. MADISON, JAMES 
 17.51-1836. 
 
 33. MANN, HORACE 
 
 1796-1859. 
 
 34. MARCH, F. A. 
 
 182&- 
 
 35. MARSH, GEORGE P. 
 
 1801-1882. 
 
 36. PORTER, NOAH 
 
 1811- 
 
 37. ROBINSON, EDWARD 
 
 1794-1863. 
 
 38. SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY 
 
 1733-1864. 
 
 39. SEWARD, WILLIAM H. 
 
 1801-1872. 
 
 40 STEPHENS, ALEX. H. 
 
 1812-1883. 
 
 41 STORY, JOSEPH 
 
 1779-1845. 
 
 WORKS. 
 
 REASON FOR MENTION. 
 
 Manual of ParliamentaryPractice. Influence upon American statesman- 
 Declaration of Independence. ship. 
 
 Papers in the Federalist. Debates Able statesman of the Revolutionary 
 in Constitutional Convention. period. 
 
 Speecliesand Lectures on Education. Leader in public education. 
 
 a 
 
 Anglo-Saxon Header and Gram- Eminent philologist. 
 
 Origin and History of English Eminent philologist. 
 Language. Lectures on English 
 Language and Literature. 
 
 The Human Intellect. 
 Palestine, Past and Present. 
 Journal of Travels. 
 Travels around the Woi Id. 
 
 Well known as president of Yale Col- 
 Ifse. 
 
 Founder of the " Bibliotheca Sacra." 
 Eminent archasologist. 
 
 Lonjf identified with the political his- 
 tory of the U. S. 
 
 History of the War between tlie For the value of the constitutional 
 States. r&um^ in his first volume. 
 
 Commentaries on theConstitution of Leading jurist 
 U. S. Lectures on Science of 
 Government. 
 
 42 SUMNER, CHARLES 
 1811-1874. 
 
 4a THOREAU, H. D. 
 1817-1862. 
 
 44 VERPLANCK, GULIAN 0. 
 
 1781-1870. 
 
 45 WEISS, JOHN 
 
 1818-1879. 
 
 The Scholar, Artist, Philanthro- Succeeded Daniel Webster in the U. S. 
 pist, Jurist. Senate, and distinguished himself as 
 
 one of the most learned of that body ; 
 as rc])rcsentativc of the Antislavery 
 movement his name is historiual. 
 
 A Week on Concord and Merrimac Lover of inanimate nature ; the Auior- 
 Rivers. Walden. MaineWoods. ican Rousseau. 
 
 Proces Verbal. Editions of Shake- Leading American Shakespearean 
 "^'""•s- scholar. 
 
 Life and Correspondence of Theo- Leading contributor to N. Am. Review. 
 dore Parker. 
 
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
 
 47 
 
 A OTBOB. 
 
 <6 WEBSTER, NOAH 
 1758-1843. 
 
 WORKS. 
 Spelling Book. Dictionan/. 
 
 SEASON FOB MENTION. 
 
 Still the standard lexicographer, al- 
 though the dictionary leaves much 
 to be desired. 
 
 i:. "WHITE, RICHARD GRANT Editions of Shakespeare. 
 1812-1885. 
 
 Leading American Shakespearean text- 
 ual critic. 
 
 48. WILKES, CHARLES 
 
 1805-1877. 
 
 49. WITHEUSPOON, JOHN 
 
 1722-1794. 
 
 50. WOOLMAN, JOHN 
 1720-1772. 
 
 51. WOOLSEY, T. D. 
 1801- 
 
 52. WOOD WORTH, SAMUEL 
 
 1785-1812. 
 
 53, WORCESTER, J. E. 
 
 1784-1865. 
 
 Cruise of the U, S. Exploring "Does both himself and his country 
 Expedition. much honor." — London AthemBum. 
 
 Essay on Mono/ as a Medium of " One of the most influential statesmen 
 
 and scholars of the Revolutionary 
 period."— C D. Ckeeland. 
 
 "Get the writings of Woolman by 
 heart, and love the early Quakers." 
 — Charles Lamb. 
 
 Greek scholar, and president of Yale 
 College for more than a quarter of 
 a century. 
 
 Universally known song. 
 
 Commerce. 
 
 Works. 
 
 Greek Ckuiics. 
 
 The Old Oaken Bucket. 
 
 Dictionan/. GaxeUeer. 
 
 Divides with Noah Webster populai 
 snfirage 
 
LITBRARY STUDIES 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 GREAT BRITISH AUTHORS. 
 
 By H. H. MORGAN. 
 
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 "It is a very well gotten-up book, and is well sustained in its adjuncts of notes, glossary, etc. 
 The selections seem to rae to be well made, and to be therefore capable of rendering valuable aid in 
 the recitation room." J. BASCOM, 
 
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 "The work is admirably done in all respects." P. A. CHADBOtJENE, 
 
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 "Literary Studies is intended to stimulate young readers to study the great English classics, from 
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