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COMPILED
AND
EDITED
BY
EDMUND
CLABENCE
STEDMAN
AND
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MACEAY
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Librarv
of
American
Literature
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Washington
Monument
of
American
Letters.
CONTENTS:
Vol.
I.
EARLY
COLONIAL
LITERATURE,
1607-1675.
Vol.
II.
LATER
COLONIAL
LITERATURE,
1676-1764.
Vol.
III.
LITERATURE
OF
THE
REVOLUTION,
1765-1787.
Vol.
IV.
LITERATURE
OF
THE
REPUBLIC,
Constitutional
Period,
1788-1820.
Vol.
V.
LITERATURE
OF
THE
REPUBLIC,
1821-1834.
Vols.
VI.,
VII.,
VIII.
LITERATURE
OF
THE
REPUBLIC,
1835-1860.
Vols.
IX.,
X.,
XL
LITERATURE
OF
THE
REPUBLIC,
1861-1890.
Fully
representing
writers
that
have
arisen
since
the
beginning
of
the
Civil
War.
Vol.
XI.
contains
BIOGRAPHICAL
NOTICES
of
all
authors
quoted,
selections
from
recent
literary
productions,
and
an
exhaus-
tive
topical
index
of
the
entire
work.
THE
LIBRARY
OF
AMERICAN
LITERATURE.
Compiled
and
Edited
by
EDMUND
CLARENCE
STEDMAN
and
ELLEN
MACKAV
HUTCHINSON.
In
Eleven
Octavo
Volumes
of
over
500
Pages
each.
Fifteen
Full-Page
Portraits
in
each
Volume,
many
of
which
are
Rare
and
Valuable.
A
nation
lives
in
its
literature,
which,
unless
it
be
imitative,
re-
flects
the
character
of
thought
of
every
period
through
which
the na-
tion
passes.
Here
is
the
record
of
patriotism,
of
the
struggles
for
re-
ligious
and
political
liberty,
and
here
also
we
find
depicted
the
daily
life
of
the
people,
and
the
manner
in
which
they
were
educated,
cul-
tivated,
and
amused.
The
last
century,
which
has
seen
a
few
isolated
colonies,
exhausted
by
eight
years'
revolution,
develop
into
a
mighty
nation,
has
also
witnessed
the
growth
of
a
national
literature,
a
literature
keeping
pace
with
our wonderful
material
prosperity,
and
equally
a
matter
of
national
pride
and
national
importance.
The
truth
of
this
assertion
is
made
evident
by
the
numerous
and
increasing
demands
for
a
work
embodying
in
a
reasonable
compass
all
that
was
best
and
most
char-
acteristic
in
the
writings
of
our
authors,
a
work
chronologically
ar-
ranged,
so
that
each
period
of
our
growth
might
be
reflected
in
the
writings
of
its
great
authors,
The
work
is
as
broad
as
our
continent,
and
the
selections
as
diver-
sified
as
our
national
life.
It
is
strictly
a
work
for
the
whole
people,
not
for
a
class,
and
is
arranged
to
meet
the
requirements
of
all.
PXESS
COMMENTS.
These
volumes
are
a
substantial
addition
to
popular
literature,
and
make,
as
they
pro-
fess
to
do,
a
library
of
our
best
American
reading
for
the
people
at
large.
The
Atlantic
Monthly,
Boston.
It
not
only
makes
the
reader
well
acquainted
with
the
progress
of
American
literature,
but
shows
him
its
relations
to
the
life
of
the
people
with
a
vividness
and
accuracy
which
no
historian
has
yet
attempted.
New
York
Tribune.