The anti-slavery movement - John Greenleaf Whittier: his first printed poem; editorial work; Snow-Bound; his ballads; love of children - Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin; cause of its large sale; The Minister's Wooing; The Pearl of Orr's Island; Oldtown Folks-Orators: William Lloyd Garrison; Similarity in the lives of the Cambridge Poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hyperion; Voices of the Night; The Skeleton in Armor; translations; literary style; Longfellow's sympathy- James Russell Lowell: The Vision of Sir Launfal; A Fable for Critics; The Biglow Papers; scope of Lowell's work Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides; Poems; first contributor to the Atlantic; The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; Elsie Ven- - Historical Writing-Jared Sparks George Bancroft: History - Isabella; The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest of Peru; The Henry Robert Young Hayne John Caldwell Calhoun - Paul Hamilton Hayne Henry Timrod - Edgar Allan Poe: his critical powers; the Tales; The Fall of the House of Usher; 93 Present literary activity — Fiction: William Dean Howells; Henry James; Marion Crawford; Edward Everett Hale; Frank Stock- ton; George W. Cable; Richard Johnston; John Esten Cooke; Thomas Nelson Page; Joel Chandler Harris; Mary N. Murfree; James Lane Allen; Edward Eggleston; J. T. Trowbridge; Mary Wilkins Freeman; Sarah Orne Jewett; Alice Brown; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward; Rose Terry Cooke; Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs; Helen Hunt Jackson; Mary Hallock Foote; Frances Hodgson Burnett The Short Story - Poetry: Bayard Taylor :. - Stedman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Baby Bell; Marjorie Daw Camp-Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain!; Leaves of Grass-Minor Poets: Celia Thaxter; Lucy Larcom; John Hay; Jones Very; Edward Rowland Sill; Richard Watson Gilder- Humorous writings: Charles Dudley Warner; Charles Farrar Browne; Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber; David Ross Locke; Henry Wheeler Shaw; Samuel Langhorne Clemens: Innocents Abroad; The Personal Memoirs of Joan of Arc; The Prince - 106 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS Frontispiece THE TITLE-PAGE OF ANNE BRADSTREET'S BOOK OF POEMS 5 7 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PATRICK HENRY MAKING HIS TARQUIN and Cæsar SPEECH WASHINGTON IRVING JAMES FENIMORE COOPER THREE TRANSCENDENTALISTS HENRY DAVID THOREAU THOREAU'S HOUSE AT WALDEN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE THE KITCHEN OF 66 SNOW-BOUND A GROUP OF AMERICAN ORATORS CAMBRIDGE IN 1824 16 19 21 29 33 34 45 49 52 53 62 65 69 THE AUTOCRAT LEAVING HIS BOSTON HOME FOR A MORN- JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY FRANCIS PARKMAN 74 78 86 88 The Portrait of Helen Hunt Jackson is reproduced by the courtesy of Little, |