The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-06
The National Period
of American
Literature
BY LORENZO SEARs. LIT. D,
Professor Of Amerio1n Lueruturs W
HrOirn Unirc4rrV


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blossom and % due season and on every side somewhat ungan az
hseng reasonable strength and grace in
she sunshine and storms Of a hundred years !, -.
% few ressons are inevsab coeenng its volume 1t would
hundred say how far many Of them are read today It is m's 70
Publishers report that the 1899 the number Of new books y
who have ha their books published This seems large
remembered that the entire population Of the country is not far from
foeoooO' wheh "oao eae pul one annol 70 u % rs SUI ~
wss p % @6s,nos ~ @ 1, so try trnty Eve readers Which
all the writing that IS done for
scripts which Il IS estimated are declined b, publishers
greatest number belongs to department
nsSs sS % I 10 o % % n 90 s % S b % Axe @ presents - al Of Ss2 titles
old that 900 Of these and that Eve novels
writer's So 1853
after follow with decreasing numbers literary
history poetry biography history
travel physical useful
moral pa0soPng 90 domestic % ana s" @% no eSts % 3 90 % sp0 % % t % & M ~
years fair idea of the demand by readers and production by writer's
what published
prejudice the and
% IN , f Of % inference In spIe OF iSey are now neck and neck
all the other departments taken together the demand for American works
American
the peoples judgment with the best that Eng
regard nationality Puritan exclusion thing Of the past its place
mild attack certain quarters Of anglo
anephoba Now public sentiment getting clothed
those the magnetic needle and knows the
be taken estimating the
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% aasas wn ~ sn it, any % @ @ & g m CON ,, 10 oy y, % m s 20 % enc
and ngn5or 70 40 more 20 .he ot and
st taking for example just in the line Of our history
must somewhat for the remarkable popularity Of Janice MeTedt by Paul
Mitchell
reviewed the light OF the magnificent which they led
which
possess
their sublime lofty
poor for future use The events are vet too ue for
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Next % @ history Of nations comes that of DISTINGUISHED pesoa and
Friends by in They
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Other bogrape OF The Many Sided Iankn and The True william
elastic revelation which be admitted add interest well
good showing SO far as numbers 20 b no definite answer has been given to
frequent question revival poetic composition distinguished
from y,se%as n few instances the somewhat % indefinite line which sep
~ 'e tNo lS u crossed III re greer par, OF eoe
ton or IN single poem but the nation is sim in state Of hopeful expect
the new edition OF am old faE while writer's Of verse keep on coura
are , pot e@eeaiy @ G a,oraole 70 ts production
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fan te obliged
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twelve 'qgme library @ people Through their patronage able to
subsequently appears hook form and sold by the ten thousand Po
u aud literary history biography fiction science travel
aTeae % religion all be represented single number
OF q
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