The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-03
The National Period
of American
Literature
BY LORENZO SEARS, LIT. D.,
Professor of Amcric1n Literature IN
Brouli University.


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h i p pra e ~, o. @ @ g % y ~ tr % s 5 png vonrer @ ones
with few exceptions did not not drive far aaeld = ,,,u.
exeg The mntu writer's had created literature which educated
leisure and crafty ung the demand for than the
were encouraged new publishing enterprises "a
them had little and fell
i when 50 felt
competitors On the other hand the throng Of lat
reflection and criticism usual after original pOdueoni
had
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presidents Of Yale among his ancestors besides Jonathan Edwafds ane
the Winthrop the well read ars Of Connecticut would
been Ike Theodore 70 fan back upon his foefh but literary
early Scholarships
lone o ee o II was lust nnne to be accorded when he wrote the
description Of the march Of the Seventh regiment Of New York to Washing
death call anything he had written and
shed in rapid succession cec Deee was the arst story Of bohemian
graduate n % might work into the chn Of more
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of the mountain and prairie fiction which when wei done Loses it,
the best Of its class and is graphic picture Of rowing life the plains in the
outdoor this the Canoe and Saddle and Life In
the Air. wholesome sketches for boys of all books
There Is no malaria in these volumes and their place is with the basamic
books OF an adventure which are doing much to unteract the
Edward Esgeston WI
before the wave emon had crossed the plains The ooer school
tropo other Will the early
Of pa nearly ali that
could be attained and mear a that But pioneers must go before
lines heavily dearly.
The half a conditions which png up after the rush & to California IN
by an He had been preceded Baya Taylor in
his E Dorado and Rhymes OF Ieye who drove stake or two and
remote american enepse and in the pages of The Overland Monhy
ass in ss the adtor who had BEEN MINER ho%aser and
IN turn began depict what he had After his Introduction the pub
immense
tumble
picture Of different life in southern California is given Helen
acksons Ramona the Mexican and the Indian the mis-
southern California literary Tie
the Louisiana ereoe George Gable They remind the the
the Canada the gulf the
esn and Of the tossing the colony and forth
sS ooo % sIsnntIe @ he % my,r & t ~ & pnne % nhaS Tes %
the northern type the suf Of Mexico from Massachusetts bay OF this
singular people Gable has been : interpreter the
novels whose titles indicate discovery Of old relics od Creole
Louisiana others kindred suggest
Africa ranne to the Old French and Spanish town POO years ago ant
keeping its distinctive features through all the changes
rich fields
senous artist could reveal its treasures the delight of all the nation
shadows
broad
aspects the life which Is lived amid all this puenee OF color and uxu
Turning eastward Georgia negro
Chandler Harris bring the brighter side Of plantation life TO the front h
wonderful Remus Fox aud r Rabbit
lore the footed tribes that their ania The
~ Pa ] a% % an @ sympathy % msn % endless aoi % % % % Songs a spsr o
how to
northward
sunshine
morning and evening Of summer and winter and their c"se transforms
n he
which caught ia
Of aud the conditions Of life which prevailed
fashion wrin
The been tho
traditions
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