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BOOK V. THE RENAISSANCE OF NEW ENGLAND

SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW ENGLAND
Book V. Chapter 1.

The outlines of New England history in the colonial period are well depicted in JOHN FISKE'S The Beginnings of New England, Boston, 1889, which has a good bibliography, and in BROOKS ADAMS's The Emancipation of Massachusetts, Boston, 1887. WINSOR'S America, Vol. III., and CHANNING AND HART's Guide, § 109 ff., contain extensive bibliographic notes on New England colonial history.

Of the later records of New England life mentioned in the text, Mrs. STOWE'S Oldtown Folks, originally published at Boston in 1869, where also her Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in two volumes in 1852, may be found in the lately published Riverside edition of her works; WHITTIER'S Snow Bound, first printed at Boston in 1866, is prominent in any edition of his poems; LOWELL's Cambridge Thirty Years Ago (1854) is in the first volume of the Riverside edition of his works, and his A Great Public Character (1867) is in the second volume of the same edition; Miss LARCOM's chief works, with the dates of publication, are: Ships in the Mist and Other Stories, 1859; Poems, 1868; Childhood Songs, 1874; An Idyl of Work, 1875; Wild Roses of Cape Ann, and Other Poems, 1881; A New England Girlhood, 1889; Miss JEWETT's principal works up to 1895 may be found in Foley's American Authors, pp. 158-9; since 1895 she has published The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896, and The Queen's Twin, and Other Stories, 1900; Dr. EDWARD EVERETT HALE's New England Boyhood, first published at Boston in 1893, may be found in the sixth volume of his lately collected works, Boston, 1900; Miss WILKINS has written The Adventures of Ann, 1886; A Humble Romance and Other Stories, 1887; A New England Nun and Other Stories, 1891; Young Lucretia and Other Stories, 1892; The Pot of Gold and Other Stories [1892]; Jane Field. A Novel, 1893; Giles Cory, Yeoman. A Play, 1893; Pembroke: A Novel, 1894; Madelon. A Novel, 1896; Jerome, A Poor Man. A Novel, 1897; Miss ALCOTT's Little Women was published at Boston, 1868-69. On the literary history of New England, see W. C. LAWTON's New England Poets, New York, 1898.

Webster.

THE NEW ENGLAND ORATORS

Book V. Chapter II.

WEBSTER'S Works, in 6 vols., were published at Boston in 1851; for select speeches, see E. P. WHIPPLE'S The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, with an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style, Boston, 1879. Good biographies of Webster are GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS's Life of Daniel Webster, 2 vols., New York, 1870, and HENRY CABOT LODGE's Daniel Webster, Boston, 1883.

EDWARD EVERETT's Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, in 4 vols., were published in Boston, 1853-68. On the renascent influence of Everett's teaching, one should read Emerson's "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England," Works, Riverside edition, Vol. X. pp. 307 ff.

Everett.

Choate.

Winthrop.

RUFUS CHOATE'S Works, with Memoir by S. G. Brown, were published in Boston, 1862.

ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP'S Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions were published, in 4 vols., Boston, 1852-86. The standard life of Winthrop is the Memoir by his son, Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., Boston, 1897.

THE NEW ENGLAND SCHOLARS AND HISTORIANS

Book V. Chapter III.

For an article on "Libraries in Boston " by the late Justin Winsor, see his Memorial History of Boston, Vol. IV. pp. 235 ff.

Prince.

PRINCE'S Chronological History of New England may be conveniently found in ARBER'S English Garner, Vol. II. pp. 287 ff., London, 1879.

GEORGE TICK NOR's History of Spanish Literature was published in three volumes at New York, 1849; his Life of William Hickling Prescott appeared at Boston in 1864. The best biography Ticknor. of Ticknor is The Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, by Miss Anna Ticknor, 2 vols., Boston, 1876.

SPARKS's historical labours may be suggested by these chief titles: Library of American Biography, first series, 10 vols., Boston, 183438; 2d series, 15 vols., Boston, 1844-48; Washington's Writings, 12 vols., Boston, 1834-37; Franklin's Works, 10 vols., Boston, 1836-40; Correspondence of the American Revo

Sparks.

lution, 4 vols., Boston, 1853; The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, 12 vols., Boston, 1829-30. For further detail, both biographical and bibliographical, see HERBERT B. ADAMS'S The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, 2 vols., Boston, 1893. Sparks's MSS. may be seen in the reading room of Harvard College Library.

Prescott.

PRESCOTT'S History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, 3 vols., appeared at Boston in 1838; his History of the Conquest of Mexico, etc., in 3 vols., at New York in 1843; his Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, at New York in 1845; the History of the Conquest of Peru, etc., 2 vols., New York, 1847; and the History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, 3 vols., Boston, 1855-58. The best biography of Prescott is GEORGE TICKNOR's Life of William Hickling Prescott, Boston, 1864.

Motley.

MOTLEY'S Merry-Mount; A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, 2 vols., appeared at Boston and Cambridge, in 1849; The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History, 3 vols., New York, 1856; History of the United Netherlands, etc., 4 vols., New York, 1861-68; The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, etc., 2 vols., New York, 1875. Motley's letters have been edited by George William Curtis, in 2 vols., New York, 1889. See also the Memoir by Dr. HOLMES, Boston, 1879.

GEORGE BANCROFT's A History of the United States, etc., in 10 vols., was published at Boston and London, 1834-74; Bancroft. "The Author's Last Revision," in 6 vols., was published

at New York, 1883–85.

RICHARD HILDRETH's The History of the United States of America was published, in 6 vols., at New York, 1851-56. PALFREY'S History of New England, in 5 vols., Boston, 1858-90. Palfrey died in 1881; the fifth volume was edited by his son, F. W. Palfrey.

Hildreth.

Palfrey.

Parkman.

FRANCIS PARKMAN's works, of which he personally retained the copyright, are published, in various editions, by Little, Brown & Co., of Boston. For accounts of Parkman's life and estimates of his work, see JOHN FISKE'S A Century of Science and Other Essays, Boston, 1899; and Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings for 1893, 2d series, Vol. VIII. pp. 349-369. The authorized biography of Parkman, by C. H. Farnham, has just been published in Boston.

UNITARIANISM

Book V. Chapter IV.

On Unitarianism in general, see the article by Dr. Andrew P. Peabody in WINSOR'S Memorial History of Boston, Vol. III. Chap. XI.

CHANNING'S Works may be found in a convenient one-volume edition published at Boston in 1886. For his life, see WILLIAM H. CHANNING'S Memoirs of William Ellery Channing, 3 vols., Boston, 1848, also published in one volume called the "Century Memorial Edition," at Boston in 1880.

The biography of George Ripley has been written by O. B. Frothingham for the series of American Men of Letters, Boston, 1882.

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On Transcendentalism in general one should consult O. B. FROTHINGHAM's Transcendentalism in New England: A History, dentalism. New York, 1876; and, if possible, The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, 4 vols., Boston, 1840-44.

The life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli has been written by Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson for the series of American Men of Letters, Boston, 1884.

Margaret
Fuller.

Of several books on Brook Farm, the best is Mr. LINDSAY SWIFT'S Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York, 1900.

Brook Farm.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Book V. Chapter VI.

The standard edition of Emerson's works is the Riverside, in 12 vols. See also the two volumes of Carlyle-Emerson letters, edited by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton. The standard biography of Emerson is the Memoir, in two volumes, by JAMES ELLIOT CABOT, Boston, 1887. HOLMES's Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston, 1884, in the American Men of Letters series, is valuable. GARNETT's Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, London, 1888, in the Great Writers series, has a considerable

bibliography. Important critical estimates of Emerson are Matthew Arnold's Emerson, in his Discourses in America; Lowell's Emerson the Lecturer, in his Works, Riverside edition, Vol. I. pp. 349 ff. and John Jay Chapman's Emerson, Sixty Years After, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly for January and February, 1897, and since reprinted in Emerson and Other Essays, New York, 1898.

THE LESSER MEN OF CONCORD
Book V. Chapter VII.

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Bronson Alcott's chief works, with their dates of publication, are: Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction, 1830; The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture, 1836; Conversations with Children on the Gospels, 2 vols., 1836-37; Tablets, 1868; Concord Days, 1872; Table Talk, 1877; New Connecticut. An Autobiographical Poem, 1881; Sonnets and Canzonets, 1882; Ralph Waldo Emerson, . An Estimate of his Character and Genius, There is a Memoir of Alcott, in 2 vols., by Messrs.

etc., 1882.

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F. B. SANBORN and WILLIAM T. HARRIS, Boston, 1893.

Thoreau.

The standard collection of Thoreau's works is the Riverside edition, in 10 vols., published at Boston. With Mr. F. B. SANBORN'S Henry David Thoreau, Boston, 1882, and EMERSON'S Thoreau, in the Riverside edition of his works, Vol. X. pp. 421-452, compare LowELL's Thoreau, in his Works, Riverside edition, Vol. I. pp. 361 ff. See also STEVENSON's essay on Thoreau, in his Familiar Studies in Men and Books (Works, Thistle edition, Vol. XIV. pp. 116-149). Mr. H. S. SALT's Life of Thoreau, London, 1896, contains a bibliography.

Theodore Parker's collected works, in 14 vols., were published at London, 1863-65; his Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons were published in 2 vols., Boston, 1852. For the life of Parker, see JOHN WEISS: Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, 2 vols., New York, 1864, and O. B. FROTHINGHAM's Theodore Parker: a Biography, Boston, 1874.

THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT

Book V. Chapter VIII.

Parker.

On the Abolition movement in general, see WINSOR'S Memorial History of Boston, Vol. III. Chap. VI., and Col. Thomas Wentworth

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