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Professor Wendell's book is, first of all, historical. It is the history of America seen through its literary temperament. According to the scheme of the book, the literary history of each century is prefaced by an actual chronicle of the chief historical events. The author's main purpose is to show how American literature differentiates itself from English. The American temperament in regarded as growing more and more distant from the English up to the eighteenth century; accordingly, the most distinctive American expression is in the first half of the nineteenth century. Since then, in the last fifty years...
...Fremantle is the author of "The World the Subject of Redemption," which comprises the Bampton Lectures for 1883 delivered before the University of Oxford...
...drama abounds in particularly fine lyrics which bear comparison with some of Swinburne's best work. Taken as a whole, "The Masque" shows great maturity, and, coming so soon after Mr. Moody's powerful poem on "Washington and the Colonial Army," is a great proof of the author's fertility and promise...
...Dutton & Company. The set is an edition de luxe, bound in calf, and numbers twelve volumes. Each volume has stamped in gold on one side "Harvard University" and on the other "Phillips Brooks House." The frontispiece of the first volume is an excellent steel engraving of the author. Rev. John Cotton Brooks is the editor of the edition...
...otherwise that a mighty kinsman of man is at work behind it all. Again and again the naturlist feels that this or that feature of the order exactly satisfies him, just as he feels that the turn of a phrase or the shape of a thought in an author is after his own mind. In fact, to the inquirer this recognition of himself, of his own intellectual quality in the events he is considering, gives the sense of the highest pleasure which his occupation affords...