Produced by Brenda Lewis, Alison Hadwin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's Note: Original spelling and grammar has been retained except in the following instances: on page 45, "four hundred vears" was changed to "four hundred years", on page 62, "book are transscriptions" was changed to "book are transcriptions", and on page 131, "United States received the territorry" to "United States received the territory". The original contains both 'dooryard' and 'door-yard' as well as 'stage coach' and 'stage-coach'.] CHILDREN'S STORIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE BY THE SAME AUTHOR CHILDREN'S STORIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1861-1896. One vol., 12mo. $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1660-1860. One vol., 12mo. $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES OF AMERICAN PROGRESS. One vol., 12mo. Illustrated $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. One vol., 12mo. Illustrated $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES OF THE GREAT SCIENTISTS. One vol., 12mo. Illustrated $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. FROM TALIESIN TO SHAKESPEARE. One vol., 12mo. $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. FROM SHAKESPEARE TO TENNYSON. One vol., 12mo. $1.25 THE PRINCESS LILLIWINKINS AND OTHER STORIES. One vol., 12mo. Illustrated $1.25 CHILDREN'S STORIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 1660-1860 BY HENRIETTA CHRISTIAN WRIGHT NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1909 COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE THE EARLY LITERATURE, 1 CHAPTER II JOHN JAMES AUDUBON--1780-1851, 14 CHAPTER III WASHINGTON IRVING--1783-1859, 28 CHAPTER IV JAMES FENIMORE COOPER--1789-1851, 51 CHAPTER V WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT--1794-1878, 69 CHAPTER VI WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT--1796-1859, 82 CHAPTER VII JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER--1807-1892, 96 CHAPTER VIII NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE--1804-1864, 108 CHAPTER IX GEORGE BANCROFT--1800-1891, 123 CHAPTER X EDGAR ALLAN POE--1809-1849, 137 CHAPTER XI RALPH WALDO EMERSON--1803-1882, 149 CHAPTER XII HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW--1807-1882, 156 CHAPTER XIII JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY--1814-1877, 174 CHAPTER XIV HARRIET BEECHER STOWE--1811-1896, 188 CHAPTER XV JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL--1819-1892, 203 CHAPTER XVI