Foote, Mary Hallock (1847– ), b. Milton, N. Y. Her novels The Led Horse Claim, give vivid representations of western life. The Chosen Valley, Cœur d'Alène. ), b. Andover, Mass. French, Alice ("Octave Thanet ") (1850– Novelist. Knitters in the Sun, Stories of a Western Town, A Book of True Lovers, The Man of the Hour. Garland, Hamlin (1860- ), b. West Salem, Wis. Presents graphic pictures of the middle West in such stories as MainTraveled Roads, Prairie Folks, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, Boy Life on the Prairie. Hay, John (1838-1905), b. Salem, Ind. Private secretary to President Lincoln. Lawyer, journalist, diplomatist, and statesman. Pike County Ballads. Joint author with J. G. Nicolay of Abraham Lincoln: A History, 9 vols. ), b. Cambridge, Mass. Professor The Web of Life, The Common Herrick, Robert (1868(University of Chicago), novelist. Lot, The Master of the Inn. Hovey, Richard (1864-1900), b. Normal, Ill. Poet, dramatist. Songs from Vagabondia, The Marriage of Guenevere, Taïiesin: A Masque. Jackson, Helen Hunt (1831-1885), b. Amherst, Mass. Novenst, poet. Her great western novel, Ramona, stands in the same relation to the Indian as Uncle Tom's Cabin to the negro. Her Century of Dishonor shows the wrongs done to the Indian race. Poems. London, Jack (1876– ), b. San Francisco, Cal. Novelist of adventure. The Call of the Wild, The Children of the Frost, The Sea Wolf, The Game. Lummis, Charles F. (1859- ), b. Lynn, Mass. Traveler, librarian, writer. The Spanish Pioneers, The Man Who Married the Moon, The Enchanted Burro. McCutcheon, Geo. Barr (1866- ), b. Tippecanoe Co., Ind. Novelist. Castle Craneycrow, Brewster's Millions, Beverly of Graustark. Markham, Edwin (1852- ), b. Oregon City, Ore. Poet. The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. Miller Cincinnatus Heine (Joaquin Miller) (1841- `, b. Wabash District, Ind. Lived in the far West, about which he writes in his poetry. Songs of the Sierras, Songs of the Sunlands, Songs of the Desert. Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910), b. Spencer, Ind. Poet, dramatist. The Masque of Judgment, The Fire Bringer, The Great Divide (play). Nicholson, Meredith (1866- ), b. Crawfordsville, Ind. Novelist. The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, The Hoosiers (in National Studies in American Letters). Norris, Frank (1870-1902), b. Chicago, Ill. Realistic novel writer. Mcleague, The Octopus, The Pit. Phillips, David Graham (1867-1911), b. Madison, Ind. Novelist. The Social Secretary, The Second Generation, The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig. Piatt, John James (1835- ), b. James Mills, Ind. Poet. Western Windows, Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley, Poems of Two Friends (with W. D. Howells). Rhodes, James Ford (1848- ), b. Cleveland, O. Historian. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, 7 vols. The seventh volume ends with 1877. Seton, Ernest Thompson (1860- ), b. South Shields, Eng. Painter, naturalist. Wild Animals I Have Known, Lives of the Hunted, Natural History of the Ten Commandments, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The Biography of a Grizzly. Sill, Edward Rowland (1841-1887), b. Windsor, Conn. Professor in University of California. Transcendental poet. Some fine verse may be found in his volumes, Hermione and Other Poems and The Hermitage and Later Poems. Spalding, John L. (1840- ), b. Lebanon, Ky. Roman Catholic archbishop. Education and the Higher Life, Things of the Mind, Socialism and Labor. Spearman, Frank H. (1859- ), b. Buffalo, N. Y. Moved to Wisconsin. Novelist, essayist. Whispering Smith, The Daughter of a Magnate, The Nerve of Foley. Tarkington, Newton Booth (1869- ), b. Indianapolis, Ind. The Gentleman from Indiana, Monsieur Beaucaire, Novelist. The Two Vanrevels, Cherry, The Conquest of Canaan. 66 'Thanet, Octave." See French, Alice. Thompson, Maurice (1844-1901), b. Fairfield, Ind. Novelist, naturalist, poet. Best known works, By- Ways and Bird Notes, My Winter Garden, Alice of Old Vincennes. Wallace, Lew (1827-1905), b. Brookville, Ind. Lawyer, diplomat, author. Ben Hur, a tale of remarkable power; The Fair God, The Prince of India. White, Stewart Edward (1873- ), b. Grand Rapids, Mich. Writer of vigorous stories of western mountain life. The Blazed Trail, The Silent Places, The Claim Jumpers, The Riverman. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1855- ), b. Johnstown Center, Wis. Journalist and poet. Poems of Passion, Poems of Pleasure, Poems of Power, Poems of Sentiment. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 159, 160, 164, 209. Boker, George H., 400. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 330, 371, 372. life and works of, 328-330, 336. Alsop, George, 414. American Note Books, 166, 167, 207, 208. Ames, Fisher, 399. Amsterdam, New, 117, 118. Annabel Lee, 297, 302. Arber, Edwin, 19, 20. Armada, Spanish, 15. Arnold, Matthew, 274, 285. Atherton, Gertrude Franklin, 418. Atlantic Monthly, 248, 251, 263. Audubon, John J., 414. Austen, Jane, 370, 394. Austin, Jane G., 399. Autobiography, Franklin's, 76-79. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, 262, Azarias, Brother (Mullany, P. F.), 416. Bacheller, Irving, 399. Bacon, Nathaniel, 22, 59. Baldwin, James, 418. Bancroft, George, 400. Bangs, John Kendrick, 400. Barlow, Joel, 93, 94, 103, 105, 106. Barr, Amelia E., 400. Bates, Arlo, 400. Bay Psalm Book, 37, 38. Bedott, Widow, 412. Beecher, Henry Ward, 169, 400. Berkeley, Sir William, 25. Beverley, Robert, 23, 59. Bradford, William, 26-28, 60, 61, 62, 64. Bradstreet, Anne, 39-41, 59, 61, 63, 258. Brook Farm, 165-167, 169, 207, 219, 278. Brown, Charles Brockden, 86, 88, 89-92, 99, Browning, Robert, 274. Whittier's comment on, 275. Brownson, Orestes A., 401. Bryant, William Cullen, 99, 108, 135-145, betrothal prayer of, 138. compared with Wordsworth, 143, 144, 145. general characteristics of, 143–145. Lowell on, 253. moral qualities of, 136, 137, 143, 145. Puritan training of, 136. questions and suggestions on, 152. suggested readings in, 152. translates Homer, 140. Bunner, Henry Cuyler, 401. Bunyan, John, 10, 55, 83. Burdette, Robert Jones, 418. Burke, Edmund, 98. Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 414. Burnham, Clara Louise, 418. Burns, Robert, 25, 99, 235, 243, 244, 275. Burwell Papers, 22. Butler, Samuel, 96. Byrd, William, 23, 26, 59. |