A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors
Subtitle: together with choice selections from their writings ... To which is added a description of American literature at the close of the century, and the ten greatest books of the nineteenth century
By: Compiled and edited by William Wilfred Birdsall ... [and] Rufus M. Jones ... Over 200 portraits and text illustrations, by Charles Dana Gibson, Corwin K. Linson and others
Publisher: R.H. Woodward
Published: 1901
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: American literature
Table of contents: title: William Cullen Bryant. Thanatopsis ; Waiting by the Gate ; Blessed are They That Mourn ; The Antiquity of Freedom ; To a Water Fowl ; Robert of Lincoln ; Drought ; The Past ; The Murdered Traveler ; The Battlefield ; The Crowded Street ; Notice of Fitz Greene Halleck ; A Corn-Shucking in South Carolina; title: Edgar Allen Poe. The City in the Sea ; Annabel Lee ; To Helen ; Israfel ; To One in Paradise ; Lenore ; The Bells ; The Raven; title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Psalm of Life ; The Village Blacksmith ; The Bridge ; Resignation ; God's Acre ; Excelsior ; The Rainy Day ; The Wreck of the Hesperus ; The Old Clock on the Stairs ; The Skeleton in Armor ; King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn ; Evangeline on the Prairie ; Literary Fame; title: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, 1836 ; The Rhodora ; A True Hero ; Mountain and Squirrel ; The Snow Storm ; The Problem ; Traveling ; The Compensation of Calamity ; Self-Reliance ; From Nature; title: John Greenleaf Whittier. My Playmate ; The Changeling ; The Worship of Nature ; The Barefoot Boy ; Maud Muller ; Memories ; The Prisoner for Debt ; The Storm (From Snow-Bound) ; Ichabod; title: Oliver Wendell Holmes. Bill and Joe ; Union and Liberty ; Old Iron Sides ; My Aunt ; The Height of the Ridiculous ; The Chambered Nautilus ; Old Age and the Professor ; The Brain ; My Last Walk with the School-Mistress ; A Random Conversation on Old Maxims, Boston and other Towns; title: James Russell Lowell. The Gothic Genius (From The Cathedral) ; The Rose ; The Heritage ; Act for Truth ; The First Snow-Fall ; Fourth of July Ode ; The Dandelion ; The Alpine Sheep (by Maria White Lowell); title: Bayard Taylor. The Bison-Track ; The Song of the Camp ; Bedouin Song ; The Arab to the Palm ; Life on the Nile; title: Nathaniel Parker Willis. David's Lament for Absalom ; The Dying Alchemist ; The Belfry Pigeon; title: Richard Henry Stoddard. A Curtain Call ; Hymn to the Beautiful ; A Dirge ; The Shadow of the Hand ; A Serenade; title: Walter Whitman. Darest Thou Now, O Soul ; O Captain! My Captain! ; In All, Myself ; Old Ireland ; Paean of Joy; title: James Maurice Thompson. Ceres ; Diana; title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Alec Yeaton's Son ; On Lynn Terrace ; Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth at The Players; title: Richard Watson Gilder. Sonnet (After the Italian) ; The Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln ; Sheridan ; Sunset from the Train ; O Silver River Flowing to the Sea ; There Is Nothing New under the Sun ; Memorial Day ; A Woman's Thought; title: John Hay. Little Breeches ; Jim Bludso ; How It Happened; title: James Whitcomb Riley. A Boy's Mother ; Thoughts on the Late War ; Our Hired Girl ; The Raggedy Man; title: Francis Bret Harte. Society upon the Stanislaus ; Dickens in Camp; title: Eugene Field. Our Two Opinions ; Lullaby ; A Dutch Lullaby ; The Norse Lullaby; title: Will Carleton. Betsy and I Are Out ; Gone with a Handsomer Man; title: Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller. Thoughts of My Western Home ; Mount Shasta ; Kit Carson's Ride ; Joaquin Miller's Alaska Letter; title: James Fenimore Cooper. Encounter with a Panther ; The Capture of a Whale; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne. Emerson and the Emersonites ; Pearl ; Sights from a Steeple ; A Reminiscence of Early Life; title: Edward Everett Hale. Lost; title: William Dean Howells. The First Boarder ; Impressions on Visiting Pompeii ; Venetian Vagabonds; title: General Lewis Wallace. Description of Christ ; The Prince of India Teaches Reincarnation ; The Prayer of the Wandering Jew ; Death of Montezuma ; Description of Virgin Mary; title: Edward Eggleston. Spelling Down the Master; title: Thomas Nelson Page. Old Sue; title: Edward Payson Roe. Christine, Awake for Your Life!; title: Francis Marion Crawford. Horace Bellingham ; In the Himalayas; title: Francis Richard Stockton. The End of a Career; title: Edward Bellamy. Music in the Year 2000; title: George W. Cable. The Doctor; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Little Evangelist ; The Other World; title: Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland). A Manly Hero; title: Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton). Fishing; title: Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson. Christmas Night at Saint Peter's ; Choice of Colors; title: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Pretty Polly P.; title: Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock). The Confession; title: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. The Hands at Hayle and Kelso's; title: Amelia E. Barr. Little Jan's Triumph ; The Old Piano; title: Alice French (Octave Thanet). Two Lost and Found; title: Jane Goodwin Austin. An Afternoon in Nantucket; title: Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Columbus ; The Alpine Flowers ; Niagara ; Death of an Infant ; A Butterfly on a Child's Grave; title: ^; title: Elizabeth Oakes Smith. The Step-mother ; Guardian Angels ; The Brook ; The April Rain ; Flowers ; Eros and Anteros; title: Lucy Larcom. Hannah Binding Shoes; title: Alice and Phoebe Cary. Pictures of Memory ; Nobility ; The Gray Swan ; To the Evening Zephyr ; Death Scene ; Memories ; Equal to Either Fortune ; Light; title: Louise Chandler Moulton. If There Were Dreams to Sell ; Wife to Husband ; The Last Good-Bye ; Next Year ; My Mother's Picture; title: Washington Irving. The Organ of Westminster Abbey ; Baltus Van Tassel's Farm ; Columbus at Barcelona ; The Galloping Hessian; title: Charles Dudley Warner. The Moral Quality of Vegetables; title: Donald Grant Mitchell. Washington Irving ; Glimpses of Dream-Life; title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson. A Puritan Sunday Morning; title: Hamilton W. Mabie. Country Sights and Sounds; title: Edmund Clarence Stedman. Betrothed Anew ; The Door-Step; title: ^; title: George H. Bancroft. Character of Roger Williams ; Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor ; Chivalry and Puritanism ; The Position of the Puritans; title: James Parton. Old Virginia; title: Francis Parkman. The New England Colonies ; The Heights of Abraham; title: William Hickling Prescott. The Golden Age of Tezcuco ; The Banquet of the Dead; title: John Lothrop Motley. Bismarck ; The Siege of Leyden ; Assassination of William of Orange; title: John Fiske. Land Discovered ; The Federal Convention; title: John Bach McMaster. The American Workman in 1784 ; The Minister in New England; title: Frances Miriam Whitcher (The Widow Bedott). Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles ; The Widow's Poetry about Hezekiah and Her Comments on the Same; title: Charles F. Brown (Artemus Ward). Artemus Ward Visits the Shakers ; Artemus Ward at the Tomb of Shakespeare; title: Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings). Josh Billing's Advertisement ; Manifest Destiny ; Letters to Farmers; title: Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). Jim Smiley's Frog ; Uncle Dan'l's Apparition and Prayer ; The Babies; title: Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife). Josiah Allen's Wife Calls on the President; title: ^; title: Charles Follen Adams (Yawcob Strauss). Der Drummer ; Hans and Fritz ; Yawcob Strauss ; Mine Moder-in-Law ; Yawcob's Dribulations ; The Puzzled Dutchman ; Der Oak and Der Vine; title: Edgar Wilson Nye (Bill Nye). The Wild Cow ; Mr. Whisk's True Love ; The Discovery of New York; title: Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus). Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Buzzard; title: Robert J. Burdette. The Movement Cure for Rheumatism; title: Louisa May Alcott. How Jo Made Friends; title: William Taylor Adams (Oliver Optic). The Sloop That Went to the Bottom; title: Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood). The Baby in the Bath-Tub; title: Horatio Alger. How Dick Began the Day; title: Edward S. Ellis. The Signal Fire; title: Martha Finley. Elsie's Disappointment; title: Mary Mapes Dodge. Too Much of a Good Thing; title: Horace Greeley. A Debtor's Slavery ; The Press; title: Charles A. Dana. Roscoe Conkling; title: Lyman Abbott. The Jesuits ; The Destruction of the Cities of the Plain; title: Henry W. Watterson. The New South; title: ^; title: Murat Halstead. To the Young Man at the Door; title: Whitelaw Reid. Pictures of a Louisiana Plantation; title: Albert Shaw. Recent Development of the West; title: Julian Hawthorne. The Wayside and the War ; First Months in England ; The Horrors of the Plague in India; title: Richard Harding Davis. The Greek Defence of Velestino; title: Patrick Henry. Resistance to British Aggression ; The War Inevitable, March 1775; title: Henry Clay. Defence of Jefferson, 1813 ; Reply to John Randolph ; On Recognizing the Independence of Greece, 1824; title: Daniel Webster. South Carolina and Massachusetts, January 1830 ; Liberty and Union, 1830 ; The Eloquence of Action ; The Twenty-second of February ; America's Gifts to Europe; title: Edward Everett. Twenty-five Years of Peace ; The Father of the Republic ; The Land of Our Forefathers; title: Wendell Phillips. Political Agitation ; Toussaint L'Ouverture; title: Henry Ward Beecher. Public Dishonesty ; Eulogy on General Grant ; From The Sparks of Nature; title: John B. Gough. Water and Rum ; The Power of Habit ; What is a Minority?; title: Chauncey Mitchell Depew. The Pilgrims; title: Henry Woodfin Grady. The New South ; Regard for the Negro Race ; Appeal for Temperance; title: Julia Ward Howe. Battle Hymn of the Republic ; Our Country ; The Unspeakable Pang; title: Mary Ashton Rice Livermore. Useful Women; title: Belva Ann Lockwood. Address before the Committee of the House of Delegates, Washington, in Support of Woman's Suffrage; title: Susan B. Anthony. Woman's Right to Suffrage; title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A Plea for Equal Rights ; Address to the Legislature of New York; title: Frances E. Willard. Home Protection; title: Lydia Maria Child. A Little Waif ; To Whittier on His Seventieth Birthday ; Politeness ; Flowers ; Unselfishness; title: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. Why Colored Men Should Enlist in the Army.