A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE DURING THE COLONIAL TIME
New Edition, revised, in two volumes.
Volume I.—1607-1676. Volume II.—1676-1765. Each $2.50.
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"In the execution of his work thus far, Professor Tyler has evinced a skill in the arrangement of his materials, and a masterly power of combination, which will at once place it in a very eminent rank among American historical compositions. It is not so much the history of a special development of literature, as a series of profound and brilliant studies on the character and genius of a people of whom that literature was the natural product. The work betrays acute philosophical insight, a rare power of historical research, and a cultivated literary habit, which was perhaps no less essential than the two former conditions, to its successful accomplishment. The style of the author is marked by vigor, originality, comprehensiveness, and a curious instinct in the selection of words. In this latter respect, though not in the moulding of sentences, the reader may perhaps be reminded of the choice and fragrant vocabulary of Washington Irving, whose words alone often leave an exquisite odor like the perfume of sweet-brier and arbutus."—George Ripley, in The Tribune.