AUSTIN, MRS. J. G. David Alden's Daughter. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The Gray Champion and The Maypole of Merry Mount, in _Twice-Told Tales_. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Young Goodman Brown, in _Mosses from an Old Manse_. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The Scarlet Letter. JOHNSTON, MARY. By Order of the Company. JOHNSTON, MARY. The Old Dominion. MOTLEY, J. L. Merry Mount. =Poetry= Poems of American History (edited by B.E. Stevenson), pp. 36-56. American History by American poets (edited by N.U. Wallington). Vol. I, pp. 39-92. TOPICS AND PROBLEMS Read the "New English Canaan," Bk. III, with a view to deciding how far Morton's evident prejudice discredited his account of the Puritans; examine it again for its specifically literary qualities. Read from Bradford's "History of Plimouth Plantation" for the admirable traits of Puritanism and see, also, if you find grounds for any of Morton's strictures. Read the Hawthorne selections in the Book List--Literary Treatment of the Period--and decide how far he may have sympathized with the attitude of Morton in the "New English Canaan." Read from "The Simple Cobler of Aggawam" for any evidence of Nathaniel Ward's residence in America; decide on the degree to which the work is English and the degree to which it is colonial. Compare the attitude toward Ireland of Nathaniel Ward in this work and of Jonathan Swift in his "Modest Proposal." Make comparisons in diction from a corresponding number of pages in "The Simple Cobler" and in Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus." CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST VERSE Although it is generally said of the Puritans that they were actually hostile to all the arts, there is abundant proof that they had a liking for verse and a widespread inclination to try their hands at it. They wrote memorial verses of the most intricate and ingenious sorts, sometimes carving them in stone as epitaphs. There is less verse sprinkled through the unregenerate Morton's "Canaan" than there is in the intolerant Ward's "Cobler." The old conservative never wrote more wisely than in this so-called "song": They seldom lose the field, but often win, Who end their Warres, before their Warres begin. Their Cause is oft the worse, that first begin, And they may lose the field, the field that win. In Civil Warres 'twixt Subjects and their King, There is no conquest got, by conquering. Warre ill begun, the onely way to mend, Is t'end the Warre before the Warre do end. They that will end ill Warres, must have the skill, To make an end by Rule, and not by Will. In ending Warres 'tween Subjects and their Kings, Great things are sav'd by losing little things.