In his Preface to the first Memorial Volume, No. 500, entitled “Five Centuries of the English Language and Literature,” being a collection of characteristic specimens of British writers from Wycliffe to Thomas Gray, the first Baron Tauchnitz refers to the literature “on the other side of the Atlantic,” and says in a footnote to this Preface: “A glance at my list of authors will show that America has contributed no small part to my Collection. Nevertheless I did not deem it necessary to alter the title under which my undertaking was started, as I thought that the term ‘British Authors’ might not improperly be applied to writers employing the language common to the two nations on either side of the Atlantic.” No. 1000--Tischendorf’s edition of The New Testament--is dedicated “to my English and American Authors,” while in No. 2000--“Of English Literature in the Reign of Victoria, with a Glance at the Past”--the author, the late Professor Henry Morley, who long filled the chair of English Literature at the University of London, opens his Preface with these words: “When Baron Tauchnitz asked me to write this little book, he also wished me to include in it some record of the literature of America. But Baron Tauchnitz cordially agreed to a suggestion that the kindred literature of America, though we are proud in England to claim closest brotherhood with our fellow-countrymen of the United States, has a distinct interest of its own, large enough for the whole subject of another memorial volume, and that an American author would best tell the story of its rise and progress.” Another work in the “Tauchnitz Edition,” but not a Memorial Volume, offered a good opportunity to present American literature to the attention of the European public. I refer to the two volumes of the late George L. Craik, sometime Professor of English Literature at Queen’s College, Belfast, entitled “A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest; with Numerous Specimens.” Here again no space is given to our authors, though they are mentioned once in a reference to “the leading poetical writers who have arisen in the American division of the English race, two or three of whom may be reckoned as of the second rank, though certainly not one as of the first.”