THE LITERARY WORLD SIXTH READER BY JOHN CALVIN METCALF PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SARAH WITHERS PRINCIPAL ELEMENTARY GRADES AND CRITIC TEACHER WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE ROCK HILL, S. C. AND HETTY S. BROWNE EXTENSION WORKER IN RURAL SCHOOL PRACTICE JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA EducT 759.19.567 HARVARD COFLECE LINNANY GIF. GF GAR & CO. DEC 5 1940 COPYRIGHT, 1919 B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY All Rights Reserved ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to use copyrighted material the authors and publishers express their indebtedness to the Macmillan Company for "Christmas at Old Fort Loudon" from Old Fort Loudon, by Charles Egbert Craddock, and a selection from Ulysses, by Stephen Phillips; to Harper & Brothers for an extract from The Flower of France, by Justin H. McCarthy; to the Bobbs-Merrill Company for “A Trip with a Crocodile" from Fighting on the Congo, by Herbert Strang; to Hamlin Garland and Harper & Brothers for “A Blizzard on the Prairie" from Boy Life on the Prairie; to Austin Dobson for "When There Is Peace"; to George W. Jacobs & Company for an extract from A Venture in 1777, by S. Weir Mitchell; to the Thomas Y. Crowell Company for "America, the Beautiful," by Katherine Lee Bates; to D. Appleton & Company for "Wolfe at Quebec" from The Seats of the Mighty, by Sir Gilbert Parker. Readings in American Literature By JOHN CALVIN METCALF, Professor of English in Selections from the writings of the best American authors to be used as supplementary to the study of American Literature. American Literature By J. C. METCALF, Professor of English in the University of Virginia. Illustrated; We are beginning to realize at last that American literature is not merely an off-shoot from English literature, but that it is in a larger and truer sense a record of national traits and strivings for at least a century and a quarter. Even the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, in which no great literature was produced, are exceedingly important as a background for the proper estimate of our later literature and should not be neglected by the serious student of American institutions. A fuller treatment of Southern writers is to be found in this work than in other texts of similar size on American literature. English Literature By J. C. METCALF. Illustrated; 464 pages In reading the book, one is struck with its perfect sanity. Everywhere there are evidences of a fine sense of proportion, and the entire volume is pervaded by an atmosphere of "sweet reasonableness," in which exaggerations or extremes are impossible. The book is in form and content the outcome of Dr. Metcalf's signally successful experience as a teacher of English Literature, and therefore has the additional merit of having been written "with a definite set of individuals in view." Johnson Publishing Co. |