I TALK OF DREAMS 308 William Dean Howells (1837- ). AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE 331 John Burroughs (1837- ). CUT-OFF COPPLES'S 351 Clarence King (1842-1901). THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS 368 Henry James (1843- ). THEOCRITUS ON CAPE COD 394 Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846- ). COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES 410 Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- ). NEW YORK AFTER PARIS 440 William Crary Brownell (1851- ). THE TYRANNY OF THINGS 467 Edward Sandford Martin (1856- ). FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION IN LITERATURE 475 Samuel McChord Crothers (1857- ). DANTE AND THE BOWERY 480 Theodore Roosevelt (1858- ). THE REVOLT OF THE UNFIT 489 Nicholas Murray Butler (1862- ). ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE 497 William Peterfield Trent (1862- ). INTRODUCTION The customary antithesis between "American" literature and "English" literature is unfortunate and misleading in that it seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother-tongue. Of course, when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a language is one and indivisible and that the nativity or the domicile of those who make it matters nothing. Just as Alexandrian literature is Greek, so American literature is English; and as Theocritus demands inclusion in any account of Greek literature, so Thoreau cannot be omitted from any history of English literature as a whole. The works of Anthony Hamilton and Rousseau, Mme. de Staël and M. Maeterlinck are not more indisputably a part of the literature of the French language than the works of Franklin and Emerson, of Hawthorne and Poe are part of the literature of the English language. Theocritus may never have set foot on the soil of Greece, and Thoreau never adventured himself on the Atlantic to visit the island-home of his ancestors; yet the former expressed himself in Greek and the latter in English,--and how can either be neglected in any comprehensive survey of the literature of his own tongue?