Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

by Charles Herbert Sylvester

1. I. The Period of Italian Influence. From the death of Chaucer to the Restoration of Charles II (1660).
2. 1. The Age of Reaction. From the death of Chaucer to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth (1558).
3. Malory, Morte d’Arthur.
4. William Tyndale, 1449-1536.
5. 2. The Age of Elizabeth. From 1558 to 1603, the Accession of James I.
6. John Lyly, 1554?-1606.
7. FRANCIS BACON, 1561-1626.
8. Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586.
9. Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618.
10. EDMUND SPENSER, 1552-1599.
11. Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.
12. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 1564-1616.
13. Ben Jonson, 1573-1637.
14. Francis Beaumont, 1584-1616.
15. John Fletcher, 1579-1625.
16. 3. The Puritan Age. From the Accession of James I to the Restoration of Charles II (1660).
17. Izaak Walton, 1593-1683.
18. Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667.
19. Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682.
20. John Bunyan, 1628-1688.
21. JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674.
22. Robert Herrick, 1591-1674.
23. II. The Period of French Influence. From the Restoration of Charles II to the death of Pope (1744).
24. 1. Age of the Restoration. From the Restoration of Charles II to the Accession of Queen Anne (1702).
25. Samuel Butler, 1612-1680.
26. JOHN DRYDEN, 1631-1700.
27. John Locke, 1632-1704.
28. Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703.
29. Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727.
30. 2. The Age of Queen Anne. From the Accession of Queen Anne to the death of Pope.
31. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.
32. Daniel De Foe, 1661?-1731.
33. Richard Steele, 1672-1729.
34. JOSEPH ADDISON, 1662-1745.
35. ALEXANDER POPE, 1688-1744.
36. III. The Modern English Period. From the death of Pope to the present time.
37. 1. The Beginnings. From the death of Pope to 1780.
38. Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761.
39. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.
40. Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.
41. David Hume, 1711-1776.
42. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768.
43. Thomas Gray, 1716-1771.
44. Tobias George Smollett, 1721-1771.
45. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774.
46. Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
47. Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.
48. 2. The Romantic School. From 1780 to 1837, the Accession of Queen Victoria.
49. William Cowper, 1731-1800.
50. Robert Burns, 1759-1796.
51. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850.
52. SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832.
53. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.
54. Robert Southey, 1774-1843.
55. Charles Lamb, 1775-1834.
56. Lord Byron, 1788-1824.
57. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822.
58. John Keats, 1795-1821.
59. 3. The Victorian Age. From the Accession of Victoria to the present time.
60. Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881.
61. Thomas Macaulay, 1800-1859.
62. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861.
63. ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-1892.
64. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863.
65. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870.
66. Robert Browning, 1812-1889.
67. John Ruskin, 1819-1900.
68. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819-1880.
69. Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888.
70. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894.

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HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS

1. A. The Colonial Period. The seventeenth and eighteenth century writers.
2. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672.
3. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728.
4. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1706-1790.
5. B. The National Period. The nineteenth century writers.
6. I. The Earlier Group.
7. William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842.
8. WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859.
9. James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.
10. William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.
11. William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859.
12. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.
13. II. The Civil War Group.
14. George Bancroft, 1800-1891.
15. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882.
16. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864.
17. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882.
18. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892.
19. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894.
20. John Lothrop Motley, 1814-1877.
21. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.
22. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891.
23. Francis Parkman, 1823-1893.
24. III. Later Writers.
25. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892.
26. Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903.
27. Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878.
28. Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908.
29. Mark Twain, 1835-1910.
30. Eugene Field, 1850-1895.

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GENERAL INDEX

A

• Abou Ben Adhem: IX, 11.
• Abraham Lincoln: IX, 324.
• Addison, Joseph.
• Selections: The Vision of Mirza: IX, 285.
• Sir Roger de Coverley: IX, 371.
• Adventure.
• Robinson Crusoe: III, 45.
• The Swiss Family Robinson: III, 99.
• The Escape from Prison: IV, 130.
• The Sunken Treasure: IV, 199.
• The Arickara Indians: IV, 472.
• Gulliver’s Travels: V, 6.
• Reminiscences of a Pioneer: V, 340.
• The Buccaneers: V, 359.
• Captain Morgan at Maracaibo: V, 365.
• The Lion and the Missionary: VI, 93.
• The Shipwreck: VI, 371.
• Elephant Hunting: VI, 385.
• An Exciting Canoe Race: VII, 79.
• The Buffalo: VII, 96.
• A Gorilla Hunt: VII, 247.
• The Recovery of the Hispaniola: VII, 352.
• Ringrose and His Buccaneers: VIII, 1.
• David Crockett in the Creek War: VIII, 37.
• A Descent into the Maelstrom: VIII, 95.
• How They Took the Gold-Train: VIII, 180.
• Ascent of the Jungfrau: IX, 1.
• The Gold-Bug: IX, 232.
• Modestine: IX, 403.
• Æsop.
• Biography: II, 1.
• Afterwhile: II, 123.
• Aladdin, The Story of. See [Story of Aladdin].
• Alexander, Cecil Frances.
• Selection: The Burial of Moses: IV, 266.
• Alfred the Great: IV, 260.
• Alhambra, The: VIII, 153.
• Allen, Grant.
• Selection: A Bed of Nettles: VIII, 209.
• Allingham, William.
• Selections: Fairies, The: I, 405.
• Four Ducks on a Pond: VI, 98.
• Leprecaun, The: III, 33.
• Allston, Washington.
• Selection: Boyhood: VI, 122.
• America: VIII, 60.
• American Flag, The: V, 396.
• American Writers, Handy Table of: [X, 473].
• Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the. See [Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The].
• Andersen, Hans Christian.
• Biography: II, 81.
• Selections: Darning-Needle, The: II, 463.
• Fir Tree, The: II, 68.
• Flax, The: I, 378.
• Hardy Tin Soldier, The: I, 148.
• Holger Danske: II, 377.
• Pea Blossom, The: I, 205.
• Snow Queen, The: II, 124.
• “Something:” I, 395.
• Ugly Duckling, The: I, 414.
• What the Old Man Does Is Always Right: II, 387.
• Annabel Lee: VII, 341.
• Annie Laurie: VI, 119.
• Apostrophe: [X, 266].
• Arabian Nights.
• Selections: Falcon and the Partridge, The: II, 6.
• Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The: III, 340.
• Sparrow and the Eagle, The: II, 8.
• Story of Aladdin, The: III, 288.
• Archibald, Mrs.
• Selection: John’s Pumpkin: III, 1.
• Arickara Indians, The: IV, 472.
• Arnold, Matthew.
• Selections: Forsaken Merman, The: VII, 180.
• Sohrab and Rustum: VI, 173.
• Arthur, King: V, 113.
• Arton, Bernard.
• Selection: Bruce and the Spider: V, 314.
• Ascent of the Jungfrau: IX, 1.
• Ass in the Lion’s Skin, The: I, 65.
• Atalanta’s Race: I, 386.
• Attack on the Castle, The: IV, 322.
• At the Seaside: I, 129.
• Auld Lang Syne: VI, 228.
• Autumn Fires: I, 394.
• Away: IV, 460.
• Aytoun, William E.
• Selection: The Heart of Bruce: V, 316.