Trent's A History of American Literature.
McMaster's Benjamin Franklin.
Ford's The Many-Sided Franklin.
Erskine's Leading American Novelists, pp. 3-49, on Charles Brockden
Brown.
Loshe's The Early American Novel.
SUGGESTED READINGS
The Essayists.—Selections from Thomas Paine's Common Sense,—Cairns,
[Footnote: For full titles see p. 62.] 344-347; Carpenter, 66-70; S. & H.,
III., 219-221. From the Crisis,—Cairns, 347-352; Carpenter, 70, 71; S. &
H., III., 222-225.
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence—which may be found in Carpenter, 79-83; S. & H., III, 286-289; and in almost all the histories of the United States—should be read several times until the very atmosphere or spirit of those days comes to the reader.
Selections from Alexander Hamilton, including a paper from the Federalist, may be found in Cairns, 363-369; S. & H., IV., 113-116.
THE ORATORS.—A short selection from Otis is given in this work, p. 72. A longer selection may be found in Vol. I. of Johnston's American Orations, 11-17. For Patrick Henry's most famous speech, see Cairns, 335-338; S. & H., III., 214-218; Johnston, I., 18-23. The speech of Samuel Adams on American Independence is given in Johnston, I., 24-38, and in Moore's American Eloquence, Vol. I.