STUDIES IN

AMERICAN LITERATURE

•Theo.

IN

American Literature

A Text-Book

FOR ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS

BY

CHARLES NOBLE

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC

IN IOWA COLLEGE

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1898

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Harvard University,
Dept. of Education Library

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUN 13 1921

COPYRIGHT, 1898,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

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PROFESSOR SELDEN L. WHITCOMB

My Colleague in the teaching of English

TO WHOSE KINDLY CRITICISM AND HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS

THIS BOOK IS DEEPLY INDEBTED