The greatest lesson taught by colonial literature, by men like Bradford, Winthrop, Edwards, and the New England clergy in general, is moral heroism, the determination to follow the shining path of the Eternal over the wave and through the forest to a new temple of human liberty. Their aspiration, endeavor, suffering, accomplishment, should strengthen our faith in the worth of those spiritual realities which are not quoted in the markets of the world, but which alone possess imperishable value. REFERENCES FOR FURTHER STUDY HISTORICAL ENGLISH HISTORY.--In either Gardiner's _Students' History of England_, Walker's _Essentials in English History_, Andrews's _History of England_, or Cheney's _Short History of England_, read the chapters dealing with the time of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., the Commonwealth, Charles II., James II., William and Mary, Anne, George I. and II. A work like Halleck's _History of English Literature_, covering these periods, should be read. AMERICAN HISTORY.--Read the account from the earliest times to the outbreak of the French and Indian War in any of the following:-- Thwaites's _The Colonists_, 1492-1750. Fisher's _Colonial Era_. Lodge's _A Short History of the English Colonies in America_. Doyle's _The English in America_. Hart's _Essentials in American History_. Channing's _A Students' History of the United States_. Eggleston's _A Larger History of the United States of America_. James and Sanford's _American History_. For an account of special colonies, consult the volumes in _American Commonwealths_ series, and also, Fiske's _Beginnings of New England_, _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_, _Old Virginia and Her Neighbors_. LITERARY Tyler's _A History of American Literature during the Colonial Time_, 2 vols. Otis's _American Verse_, 1625-1807. Richardson's _American Literature_, 2 vols. Trent's _A History of American Literature_, 1607-1865. Wendell's _History of Literature in America_. _Narratives of Early Virginia_, edited by Tyler. Bradford's _History of Plymouth Plantation_. New edition, edited by Davis. (Scribner, 1908.) Winthrop's _Journal_ ("History of New England"). New edition, edited by Hosmer, 2 vols., (Scribner, 1908.) Chamberlain's _Samuel Sewall and the World He Lived in_. Lodge's "A Puritan Pepys" (Sewall) in _Studies in History_. Campbell's _Anne Bradstreet and her Time_. Twichell's _John Winthrop_. Walker's _Thomas Hooker_. Wendell's _Life of Cotton Mather_. Allen's _Life of Jonathan Edwards_. Gardiner's _Jonathan Edwards, a Retrospect_. SUGGESTED READINGS The following volumes of selections from American Literature will be referred to either by the last name of the author, or, if there are more authors than one, by the initials of the last names:-- Cairns's _Selections from Early American Writers_, 1607-1800. (Macmillan.) Trent and Wells's _Colonial Prose and Poetry_, 3 vols., 1607-1775. (Crowell.)