[15] See Higginson’s “Cheerful Yesterdays,” pp. 107–111.
[16] Scribner’s Magazine, October, 1904, xxxvi. 399.
[17] Cf. “Confessions and Criticisms” (1886), pp. 15–16.
[18] See Professor T. Frederick Crane’s study of them in The Popular Science Monthly, April, 1881, xviii. 824–833.
[19] The Atlantic Monthly, July, 1886, lviii. 133.
[20] Quoted by Professor C. F. Richardson, “American Literature,” ii. 448–449.
[21] In this sketch of American poetry, I have obviously had recourse not merely to the standard editions and biographies in the case of important authors, but in the case of these, to some extent, as well as of lesser authors, to a number of manuals and other compilations; among them the well-known works on American literature by Bronson, Hart, Richardson, and Onderdonk, and the anthologies, mentioned in the text, by Stedman and Page. I desire to express freely my sense of obligation to these sources.—L. C.
[22] In nine volumes, New York, 1857–1869. For the section entitled “The Orators and the Divines,” the following works, among others, have also been consulted: “American Eloquence, a Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America,” etc., by Frank Moore, two volumes, New York, 1895 (published 1857); “American Orations,” etc., edited by Alexander Johnston, re-edited by J. A. Woodburn, four volumes, 1896–1897; “The Clergy in American Life and Letters,” by D. D. Addison, 1900; “A Manual of American Literature,” by John S. Hart, 1878.
[23] The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1898, lxxxii. 319.
[24] Science, May 7, 1897, n. s. v. 717.