AMERICAN LITERATURE By JULIAN W. ABERNETHY, Ph.D. FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF Berkeley Institute, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 514 pages, 12mo, cloth. Price $1.10 The author's long and conspicuously successful experience as a teacher and the time and thought he has devoted to the work encourage us to believe that this book will be particularly adapted to the varying needs of his fellow teachers. The plan of the book includes a brief account of the growth of our literature considered as part of our national history, with such biographical and critical material as will best make the first-hand study of American authors interesting and profitable. One of the most interesting features of the book is the supplementing of the author's critical estimates of the value of the work of the more important American writers with opinions quoted from contemporary sources. Other strong points are the attention given to more recent contributions to American literature and the fact that Southern literature is accorded a consideration commensurate with its interest and value. The pedagogical merit of the book is indicated by the care which has been given to the production of a teaching apparatus which is at once simple and entirely adequate. At the end of each chapter, two lists of selections are provided for each important author, one for critical study, the other for outside reading. Lists of reading material for the historical background also are given. Study along the lines indicated will lead to a closer correlation of history and literature than is usually secured, and to a more just appreciation of the literature. The books included in the list at the end of the work constitute an ample and fairly complete library of biography and criticism for students of American literature. CHARLES W. KENT, M. A., Ph. D., Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature, ÚNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, writes: I am sufficiently pleased with Abernethy's American Literature to adopt it for use in my class next session. This I have done after a careful examination of nearly all of the college text-books on American literature now on the market. COMPLETE EDITIONS For Uniform College Entrance Examinations 66 Addison, Steele, and Budgell-The Sir Browning-Poems (Selected).. ..... Bunyan-Pilgrim's Progress, Part I.... Coleridge-The Rime of the Ancient 30 cents 25 cents 40 cents 25 cents 25 cents 40 cents Defoe-Robinson Crusoe, Part I...... 50 cents De Quincey-Joan of Arc, and The Eng Goldsmith-The Vicar of Wakefield.... 25 cents 30 cents 80 cents. Hale-The Man Without a Country.... Lowell-The Vision of Sir Launfal, and other Poems.. ... Macaulay-Essays on Lord Clive and ..... 25 cents 40 cents 50 cents 25 cents 25 cents 40 cents 25 cents 50 cents Macaulay-Lays of Ancient Rome, and Shakespeare-As You Like It........ 25 cents 25 cents ..... 25 cents Reading Series 30 cents Classic Fables. For First and Second Grades. and Fifth Grades. Selected and edited by Stories from Greek History. For Fourth and Heroes of History. For Fifth and Sixth Grades. By Ida Prentice Whitcomb. 448 pages, Brief Biographies from American History. Part II. For Sixth Grade. 163 pages, 12mo, ....... 40 cents 40 cents 40 cents 60 cents 50 cents 35 cents ..... 35 cents 50 cents English History Stories. For Sixth and Seventh |