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Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers

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Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers

American literature

Burnett, Frances Hodgson.
  Cable, George W.
  Carleton, Will.
  Cary, Alice.
  Cary, Phoebe.
  Child, Lydia Maria.¹
  Clay, Henry.
  Clemens, Samuel L., (_Mark Twain_).
  Cooper, James Fenimore.
  Craddock, Charles Egbert, (_Mary N. Murfree_).
  Crawford, Francis Marion.
  Dana, Charles A.
  Davis, Richard Harding.
  Depew, Chauncey M.
  Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth.
  Dodge, Mary Abigail, (_Gail Hamilton_).¹
  Dodge, Mary Mapes.¹
  Eggleston, Edward.
  Ellis, Edward.
  Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
  Everett, Edward.
  Field, Eugene.
  Finley, Martha.
  Fiske, John.¹
  French, Alice, (_Octave Thanet_).
  Gail Hamilton, (_Mary Abigail Dodge_).¹
  Gilder, Richard Watson.
  Gough, John B.
  Grady, Henry W.
  Greeley, Horace.
  Grace Greenwood, (_Sarah J. Lippincott_).
  Hale, Edward Everett.
  Halstead, Murat.
  Harris, Joel Chandler, (_Uncle Remus_).
  Harte, Bret.
  Hawthorne, Julian.
  Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
  Hay, John.
  Henry, Patrick.
  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
  Holley, Marietta, (_Josiah Allen’s Wife_).¹
  Holmes, Oliver Wendell.
  Howe, Julia Ward.
  Howells, William Dean.
  Ik Marvel, (_Donald G. Mitchell_).
  Irving, Washington.
  Jackson, Helen Hunt.
  Joaquin Miller (_Cincinnatus Heine Miller_).
  Josiah Allen’s Wife, (_Marietta Holly_).¹
  Josh Billings, (_Henry W. Shaw_).¹
  Larcom, Lucy.
  Lippincott, Sarah Jane, (_Grace Greenwood_).
  Livermore, Mary A.
  Lockwood, Belva Ann.
  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
  Lowell, James Russell.
  Mabie, Hamilton W.
  Mark Twain, (_Samuel L. Clemens_).
  Marion Harland, (_Mary V. Terhune_).
  McMaster, John B.
  Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, (_Joaquin_).
  Mitchell, Donald Grant (_Ik Marvel_).
  Motley, John L.
  Moulton, Louise Chandler.
  Murfree, Mary N., (_Chas. Egbert Craddock_).
  Nye, Edgar Wilson, (_Bill Nye_).
  Oliver Optic, (_William T. Adams_).
  Octave Thanet, (_Alice French_).
  Page, Thomas Nelson.
  Parkman, Francis.¹
  Parton, James.
  Phillips, Wendell.
  Poe, Edgar Allen.¹
  Prescott, William.
  Reid, Whitelaw.
  Riley, James Whitcomb.
  Roe, Edward Payson.
  Shaw, Albert.
  Shaw, Henry W., (_Josh Billings_).
  Sigourney, Lydia H.
  Smith, Elizabeth Oakes.
  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
  Stedman, Edmund Clarence.
  Stockton, Frank.
  Stoddard, Richard Henry.
  Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
  Taylor, Bayard.¹
  Terhune, Mary Virginia.
  Thompson, Maurice.¹
  Wallace, General Lew.¹
  Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
  Warner, Charles Dudley.
  Watterson, Henry.
  Webster, Daniel.
  Whitman, Walt.
  Whittier, John Greenleaf.
  Willard, Frances E.
  Willis, Nathaniel Parker.
  Whitcher, Mrs. (_The Widow Bedott_).¹

      ¹ No Portrait.

  Illustration:    “UNDER A SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE
                     THE VILLAGE SMITHY STANDS.”
                                         _Longfellow._




                       GREAT POETS OF AMERICA.


  Illustration:       WELL KNOWN AMERICAN POETS

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