AMERICAN LITERATURE. 539 Among American travellers of the last century, we may name JOHN BARTRAM (1701-1777), who described East Florida; JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772), a Quaker, in whose Journal of a Tour in England Charles Lamb delighted; JONATHAN CARVER (1732-1780), who explored the interior of North America, trying to reach the Pacific; and JOHN LEDYARD (1751-1789), who travelled both in frozen Siberia and burning Africa, dying at Cairo. TIMOTHY FLINT, the novelist (1780-1840) contributed to this branch of American literature The Geography and History of the Mississippi Valley-HENRY SCHOOLCRAFT (born 1793), Tours in Missouri, Arkansas, and the Copper Region of Lake Superior, besides various important works upon the Red Race in America and CHARLES WILKES, of the United States Navy, A Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, giving an account of travels in Chili, Peru, and the South Seas. CALEB CUSHING's Reminiscences of Spain; GEORGE CHEEVER'S Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and Pilgrim in the Shadow of the Jungfrau; BAYARD TAYLOR's Sketches in the East; J. T. HEADLEY'S Letters from Italy, the Alps, and the Rhine, are among the most readable books of late American travel. Bible, Wycliffe's translation of the, 50, 51; ENCYCLOPÆDIAS, the, 258. FRENCH influence in the court of Charles Book, the tree and the, 9. Book-binding, 75. Book-room, an ancient, 12. Books, leather, 10. Books in Greek and Roman days, 11. Booksellers' shops, 299. Britons, conjecture concerning ancient, 15. CAIRNS and altars, 10. Cavaliers their dress, 176; their wild life, GAZETTE, the LONDON, 254. Gleeman, the Anglo-Saxon, 18. HACKS, Grub Street, 295; extract from ILLUMINATIONS, 41. LATIN writers among ancient Britons, 17. Literary life in the eighteenth century, 294. Literary profession, influence of Walpole | Poetry, Latin, of the Norman times, 30. MACHINE, König's, 435; success of, in Metre, English, 358. Minstrel, the Anglo-Saxon, 18. Miracle plays, or mysteries, 101. Moralities, the, 102. Poison, the, too strong, 221. Puritans and Cavaliers - their influence Puritans- their habits, 178; their hatred NEWSLETTER, the, 254. Newspapers, earliest, 253. Newspapers and serials, 253. the, 85. Romance, the Norman, 29. Romance tongues of France, 29. New Testament, Tyndale's translation of Romances relating to King Arthur, 32. Norman-French writers, 32. OBJECTIVE and subjective, 362. PAPERS of the Civil War, 253. "Paraphrase of Caedmon," the, 19; extract Parchment and vellum, 11. Periodical literature, when foundation of, Periodical writers, 258. Picture, a sad, 220. Picture-writing, 12; of old Mexico, 12. Plays and players of Old England, 101. Poet, passage from Macaulay on word, 296. Poetry, inverted order of words in, 359; SCHOOLS, poetic, 361. Scriptorium, the, 41. Shameless conduct, 220. Stage, the old, 104; its scenery, 104; the THEATRES at the Restoration, 221. UNITIES, the three, 361. VELLUM and parchment, 11. Vice, spread of, 220; what Burke said of WRITERS, Anglo-Norman, 28. Writers, life of well-to-do, in days of Wal- Writers, periodical, 258. Writing materials, ancient, 11. INDEX OF AUTHORS. 543 INDEX OF AUTHORS. A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT, 505. Ainsworth, William Harrison, 514. Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury, 23. Alexander, Joseph Addison, 538. Alfred the Great, 21. Alfric the Grammarian, 22. Alison, Archibald, 429. Alison, Sir Archibald, 506. Allingham, William, 504. Anthon, Charles, 536. Belzoni, John Baptist, 432. Benedict, Abbot of Peterborough, 31. Bentley, Richard, 251. Bentham, Jeremy, 429. Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, 292. Bird, Robert M., 535. Blackie, John Stuart, 433. Blackstone, Sir William, 356. Blair, Hugh, 356. Blair, Robert, 291. Blessington, Countess of, 427. Bloomfield, Robert, 420. Bolingbroke, Viscount, Henry St. John, 292. Arblay, Madame D' (Frances Burney), 424. Borrow, George, 526. BACON, FRANCIS, Viscount St. Albans, 155. Brooks, Shirley, 505, 518. |