Westchester On the "Westchester Farmer," see WINSOR's America, Farmer. Vol. VI. p. 104. The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of Francis Hopkinson, in 3 vols. were published at Philadelphia in 1792. Hopkinson. On Hopkinson's life and writings, see TYLER: Literary History of the American Revolution, Chap. XXX. LITERATURE IN AMERICA FROM 1776 TO 1800 Book II. Chapter VIII. On the general conditions of life in America between the close of the Revolution and the beginning of the nineteenth century, see HENRY ADAMS'S History of the United States, 9 vols., New York, 1889-91. Federalist. On the Federalist group, the chief authorities are The Federalist, etc., ed. Paul Leicester Ford, New York, 1898; The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge, 9 vols., New York, 1885-86; Madison's Papers, being bis Correspondence and Reports of Debates, ed. Henry D. Gilpin, 3 vols., Washington, 1840, and his Letters and Other Writings, 4 vols., Philadelphia, 1865; The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, ed. Henry P. Johnston, 4 vols., New York, 1890. For biographical detail, see HENRY CABOT LODGE's Alexander Hamilton, Boston, 1882 (American Statesmen series); WILLIAM C. RIVES'S History of the Life and Times of James Madison, 3 vols., Boston, 1859-68; SYDNEY HOWARD GAY'S James Madison, Boston, 1884 (American Statesmen series), and GEORGE PELLEW's John Jay, Boston, 1890 (American Statesmen series). Copious bibliographic detail will be found in WINSOR's America, Vol. VII. pp. 259-260, and in PAUL LEICESTER FORD's Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, New York, printed for the author, 1886. A sufficient notion of CRÈVECŒUR may be got from TYLER : Literary History of the American Revolution, Vol. II. pp. 347-358, and Stedman and Hutchinson's Library, Vol. III. pp. 138–146. Crèvecœur. Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer were published at London in 1782; there is a French translation in two volumes, published at Paris in 1784. Selections from the writings of the "Hartford Wits" are given in the third volume of Stedman and Hutchinson's Library; while Pro Wits. fessor Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution Hartford discusses their work at some length. For an interesting monograph on the Hartford Wits, see F. SHELDON: The Pleiades of Connecticut, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XV. p. 187 (Feb., 1865). TIMOTHY DWIGHT's works are not in print. Original editions of importance are: The Triumph of Infidelity: A Poem. Printed in the World, 1788; The Conquest of Canaan: A Poem, in Dwight. Eleven Books, Hartford, 1785; Greenfield Hill: A Poem, in Seven Parts, New York, 1794; Travels in New England and New York (1796-1815), 4 vols., New Haven, 1821-22. For further details, see Professor Tyler's excellent Three Men of Letters [Berkeley, Dwight, Barlow], New York, 1895, pp. 184-185. The Poetical Works of Jonathan Trumbull, LL.D., were published at Hartford in 1820. Notable editions of M' Fingal are the first, M'Fingal: a Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos, Hart- Trumbull. ford, 1782, 16mo; the sixth, London, 1793, with explana tory notes by Joel Barlow; and an edition with introduction and notes by B. J. Lossing, New York, 1880. Of JOEL BARLOw's writings no edition is in print. For Barlow. bibliography and other details, see TYLER's Three Men of Letters, pp. 131-183. Freneau. The writings of FRENEAU are no longer in print. Among early editions should be noted Miscellaneous Works of Mr. Philip Freneau, Containing bis Essays and Additional Poems, Philadelphia, 1788; Poems Written between the Years 1768 and 1794, Monmouth, 1795; Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War . . . and Other Pieces not beretofore in Print, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1809. On Campbell's borrowings from Freneau, see TYLER: Literary History of the American Revolution, Vol. I. pp. 177 ff. BOOK III. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORY SINCE 1800 Book III. Chapter I. For English history in the nineteenth century, the general refer ence will suffice. ENGLISH LITERATURE SINCE 1800 The revolutionary temper of early nineteenth-century literature in England has nowhere been better defined than in Dr. A. E. HANCOCK's The French Revolution and the English Poets, New York, 1899. AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1800 Abundant references for the study of American history since 1800 will be found in Channing and Hart's Guide, pp. 329 ff. For the first twenty years of the century, see HENRY ADAMS'S History of the United States, New York, 1889-91; for the period between 1850 and 1863, J. F. RHODES'S History of the United States, New York, 1893-99, is the chief authority. LITERATURE IN AMERICA SINCE 1800 Book III. Chapter IV. For literature in America since 1800, see the general authorities. BOOK IV. LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE STATES FROM 1798 TO 1857 CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN BROCKDEN BROWN's novels have been published at Philadelphia, 6 vols., 1857, and in a later and more sumptuous edition, 6 vols., Philadelphia, 1887, limited to 500 copies. Notable biographies of Brown are WILLIAM DUNLAP's Life, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1815, and WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT's in Sparks's Library of American Biography, Vol. I. pp. 119-180, or in PRESCOTT's Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, New York, 1845. WASHINGTON IRVING Book IV. Chapter II. IRVING's works are published, in various editions, by the Putnams Standard biographies are the Life and Letters of Wash of New York. ington Irving, by his nephew, Pierre M. Irving, 4 vols., New York, 1862-64, and Mr. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER'S Washington Irving, Boston, 1881, in the American Men of Letters series. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Book IV. Chapter III. Editions of COOPER's novels abound; his other works are not in print. The best life of Cooper is that by Prof. T. R. Lounsbury, Boston, 1883, in the American Men of Letters series. It has a considerable bibliography. An excellent monograph on Cooper, by W. B. S. Clymer, has since been published in the Beacon Biography series at Boston. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Book IV. Chapter IV. Of BRYANT's works the standard edition is that of PARKE GODWIN: Poetical Works, 2 vols., New York, 1883; Prose Writings, 2 vols., New York, 1884. The best life of Bryant is PARKE GODWIN's, in two volumes, New York, 1883. Griswold's collections and Duyckinck's Cyclopædia have already been referred to in the list of general references. Drake and Halleck are generously represented in Stedman and Hutchinson's Library and in the collections of Griswold. EDGAR ALLAN POE For Stedman and Woodberry's edition of Poe, in 10 vols., Chicago, 1894-95, is admirable. The best biography of Poe is Professor Woodberry's, Boston, 1885, in the American Men of Letters series. Poe bibliography, see Stedman and Woodberry's tenth volume, pp. 267-281. THE KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL Book IV. Chapter VI. On American periodical publication between 1815 and 1833, see Dr. W. B. Cairns: On the Development of American Literature OF from 1815 to 1833, with Especial Reference to Periodicals, Madison, Wisconsin, 1898. For the Knickerbocker writers in general, one should glance, if possible, at The Knickerbocker Gallery: a Testimonial to the Editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine from its Contributors. .. New York: Samuel Hueston, MDCCCLV. On WILLIS, Professor Beers writes: "Of the various collective editions of his [Willis's] verse, published since 1844, . . . the final and most complete is ... the Clark and Maynard edition Willis. of 1868. No really complete edition of Willis's writings has ever been printed. to being complete was entitled The Complete Works of N. P. Willis, 1 vol., 895 pp., New York, J. S. Redfield, 1846. The thirteen volumes in uniform style, issued by Charles Scribner from 1849 to 1859, form as nearly a complete edition of Willis's prose as is ever likely to be made." (Beers's Willis, p. 353.) A volume of selections from Willis's prose writings appeared at New York in 1885, under the editorship of Prof. H. A. Beers. The best biography of Willis is that by Professor Beers, Boston, 1885, in the American Men of Letters series. The first collective edition which laid claim Mrs. Kirkland's books, originally published by Francis, of New York and Boston, seem to be no longer in print; they are chiefly A New Home: Who'll Follow? 1839; Forest Life, 1842; Western Clearings, 1846. Melville. Hermann Melville's best-known stories are: Typee, 1846 ; Omoo, 1847; Moby Dick, the White Whale, 1851. Standard biographies of Bayard Taylor are his Life and Letters, edited by Marie Hansen-Taylor and Horace E. Scudder, Taylor. 2 vols., Boston, 1884, and ALBERT H. SMYTH'S Bayard Taylor, Boston, 1896, in the American Men of Letters series. Curtis. The principal writings of George William Curtis, with their dates of publication, are: Nile Notes of a Howadji, 1851; Lotus Eating: A Summer Book, 1852; The Potiphar Papers, 1853; Prue and I, 1856; Works; Collected and Newly Revised by the Author, 5 vols., 1856; Essays from the Easy Chair, three series, 1892-'93-'94. Mr. Edward Cary has written a life of Curtis for the American Men of Letters series, Boston, 1894. |