American Prose. Selections of entire Essays, Sketches, and Stories from the works of HAWTHORNE, IRVING, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, THOREAU, and EMERSON. With Introductions and Notes. 16m0, 424 pages, $1.00. The Selections comprised in this book are as follows: HAWTHORNE: The Snow-Image; The Great Stone Face; Drowne's Wooden Image; Howe's Masquerade. IRVING: Rip Van Winkle; Little Britain. LONGFELLOW: The Valley of the Loire; Journey into Spain. WHITTIER: Yankee Gypsies; The Boy Captives. HOLMES: The Gambrel-Roofed House. LOWELL: My Garden Acquaintance. THOREAU: Sounds; Brute Neighbors; The Highland Light. Any person familiar with these essays and stories will recognize their great and varied interest, as well as their unquestionable literary excellence and charm. The Notes explain allusions which, without explanation, would be unmeaning or obscure to youthful readers; and the Introductions give much interesting information concerning the authors and their writings. The volume has this double value, it is an excellent reader for high schools, and a real introduction to general American literature. - Boston Advertiser. A sentiment is growing among thoughtful people that our ordinary scrappy school readers, while well adapted to secure a variety of elocutionary drill, are very insufficient for the other objects to be aimed at in reading books; and that they should be, if not superseded, yet relegated to a less conspicuous place in a system of education, and supplemented by books of a different type.. New York Nation. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 PARK STREET, BOSTON, MASS. |