Adventures of Captain John Far-

rago and Teague O'Regan his
Servant, by H. H. Brackenridge,
22-23

Adventurous travel, The tale of, 24
Alcuin, by C. B. Brown, 32, 45
Algerine Captive, by Royall Tyler,
Extract from preface to the, 2-3;
25

Amateurishness of the early novels,

26

Amelia, or the Faithless Briton,
the oldest American tale of the
Revolution, 61

America had no feudal past as a
basis for fiction, 60
American and British novels, Prices
of, 26-27

American novelists, Efforts of, ex-
pended in vain, 82

Art of Courting, The, by Rev. Enos
Hitchcock, 21; inspired by De-
foe's Religious Courtship, 22
Arthur Clenning, by Timothy Flint,
The heroine of, 87, 96

Arthur Mervyn, by C. B. Brown,

33; analyzed, 43-45
Asylum, The, or Alonzo and
Melissa, by I. Mitchell, 53; dis-
puted authorship of, 53; analyzed,
54-56

Bage, Robert, variously character-
ized by Raleigh, Saintsbury and
Cross, 4

Belles Lettres Club, The, 31
Betrothed of Wyoming, The, 99-100
Bibliography, 106-24
Biloquialism, 38-39

Bleecker, Mrs. Ann Eliza, History
of Maria Kettle, 66-67
Books of mere amusement, Demand

for, 3

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, and his
satirical novel, Modern Chivalry,
22-23, 22n

Brainerd, J. G. C., Fort Braddock
Letters, 103n

Brethren of the Common Weal, 43n
Brother Jonathan, or the New Eng-

landers, by John Neal, the long-
est American novel, 93
Brown, Charles Brockden, the first
gifted American novelist, 29; a
follower of Wm. Godwin, 30;
early career, 30-32; biography by
W. Dunlap, 30n; his Alcuin, 32;
his interest in German literature,
32n; influenced by W. Godwin's
Caleb Williams, 32-34; Wieland,
or the Transformation, 33; ana-
lyzed, 37-38; Sky Walk, unpub-
lished, 33; Arthur Mervyn, 33;
analyzed, 43-45; Edgar Huntly,
or Memoirs of a Sleep-walker,
33, 45, 57; analyzed, 69-73; Or-
mond, or the Secret Witness, 33,
40-41, 44, 45; edits Monthly
Magazine and American Review,
33; Jane Talbot, 33, 45, 48-50;
Clara Howard, 33, 45, 46-48, 50;
edits Literary Magazine and
American Register, 34; his liter-
ary work, 34-35; use of biloquial-
ism in Memoirs of Carwin, the
Biloquist, 38-39; his dream of
an ideal commonwealth, 39-41;
Sketches of the History of Carsol
and Sketches of the History of
the Carrils and Ormes, 40-41; his
women not interesting, 49; his
"horrific greatness," 49-50; pic-
tures of life in Philadelphia, 50;
debts of, to Godwin, 50-51; his
only follower, George Watterston,
51-52; an isolated figure in the

American literature of his time,
57-58; varying estimates of his
work, 58n; his attitude toward the
Indian, 72; new adornments in
the fiction of, 73; his idea of
facility of composition, 74;
neglect of, by his countrymen, 82;
founded no school, 104; work of
his and Cooper's contemporaries,

104

Brownell, W. C., on Cooper's

novels, 84n; on his heroines, 86
Bunker's Hill, dramatic poem by
H. H. Brackenridge, 22n

Caleb Williams, by William Godwin,
32; influence of, on C. B. Brown,
34, 57; analyzed, 35-37; discus-
sion of, 36n

Captain Smith and Princess Poca-
hontas, an Indian Tale, by John
Davis, 75; analyzed, 75-77

Castle of Otranto, by Horace Wal-
pole, 29

Castles of Athlyn and Dunbane, by

Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, 29
Champion of Freedom, The, or the
Mysterious Chief, by Samuel
Woodworth, analyzed, 79-80
Cheney, Harriet Vaughan, daughter

of Hannah Foster, 100; A Peep
at the Pilgrims in 1636, 101;
Rivals of Acadia, 101
Child, Lydia Maria, Hobomok, 100-

101; her literary work, 100n;
The Rebels, or Boston before the
Revolution, IOI

Clara Howard, or the Enthusiasm
of Love, by C. B. Brown, 33,
45, 46-48, 50

Colonial spirit, The, and its in-
fluence on early American taste
for fiction, 1, 2

Commonwealth, ideal, C. B. Brown's

dream of an, 39-41, 43
Constantia Neville; or, the West
Indian, by Helena Wells, 15
Cooper, James Fennimore, and his
contemporaries, 82-105; estab-
lished novel-writing in American
literature, 84; Precaution, 84, 85;

The Spy, 85, 94; The Pioneers,
85, 86, 89; The Pilot, 85, 89; his
three types of novel, 85, 103;
Lionel Lincoln, 85, 90; his repu-
tation of stiffness, 86; the ques-
tion of his heroines, 86-87;
Leather-stocking tales, 87, 88n,
89; his Indians, 88-89; criticisms
of, 88n; his introduction
of
comic relief and eccentric char-
acter, 89; neglect of his sea-
stories, 89; inferior to Scott in
character drawing, 90; his land-
scape, 90; other tales, 90-91;
The Sea Lions, 91; road to rec-
ognition of his greatness, 92;
Satanstoe, 92n; unapproached by
his rivals, 103; work of his con-
temporaries better than that of
C. B. Brown's, 104; use of Amer-
ican material, 104-105; realized
the ambitions of his humble pre-
decessors, 105

Coquette, The, by Mrs. Foster, ana-
lyzed, 13-14

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 21
Coultershoggle, Mungo, Leslie Link-
field, 99

Courtships, Seven typical, 21

Dall's, Mrs. C. H., Romance of the
Association, 14n

Davis, John, and his Indian tales,
74-77; The Original Letters of
Ferdinand and Elizabeth, 74;
The Farmer of New Jersey, 74;
The Wanderings of William, 74;
The Post Captain, 74, 77; Travels,
75; on the Indians, 75; First Set-
tlers of Virginia, 75; condensed
as Captain Smith and Princess
Pocahontas, 75; commended by
C. B. Brown, 75; analyzed, 75–76;
Walter Kennedy, an American
Tale, 77

Didactic, The, and the sentimental,
I-28

Didacticism, Various types of, 17-23
Didacticism and sentimentality of
the British novel, 6; of the first
American novels, 7

Dorval, or the Speculator, by Mrs.
Wood, 53

Dwight, Timothy, on novels, I

Edgar Huntly, or the Memoirs of a
Sleep-walker, by C. B. Brown, 33,
45, 57; analyzed, 69-73
Edgeworth, Miss, 6; Irish stories
of, 84

Educational tale, The, 20-21
Edwin and Angelina, opera by Dr.
E. H. Smith, 32

Emigrants, The, by Gilbert Imlay,
68-69

Emma Corbett, or the Miseries of
Civil War, 6ın

English criticism, Dependence on,
82

English novel, Deplorable influence
of the, 3; not supplanted by the
early American, 27; popularity of
the, 82
Evelina,
Burney's, 4

Appearance of Fanny

Farmer of New Jersey, The, by
John Davis, 74

Farmer's Friend, The; or the His-

tory of Mr. Charles Worthy, by
Rev. Enos Hitchcock, 21

Farmer's library, Change in the
books in the, 3

Father of American Fiction, C. B.

Brown called the, 29

Female Review, The heroine of the,
65

Fiction, The changed attitude
toward, 3

Fidele; or the Faithful Shepherd,
16

Fielding, The influence of, 5

First American Novelist, The, C. B.
Brown called, 29

First Settlers of Virginia, The, by
John Davis, 75; republished as
Captain Smith and Princess
Pochahontas, an Indian Tale, 75
Flint, Timothy, Francis Berrian, or
the Mexican Patriot, 96; Life and
Adventures of Arthur Clenning,
87, 96; George Mason, or the

Young Backwoodsman, 96; Sho-
shonee Valley analyzed, 96-97;
career and other writings of, 96n;
characterized, 97

Fortune's Football, or the Adven-

tures of Mercutio, analyzed, 24-25
Foster, Mrs. Hannah Webster, 2,
13n; her Coquette analyzed, 13-
14; the most readable of all the
early novels, 14; The Boarding
School and Lessons of a Precep-
tress, 13n

Francis Berrian, or the Mexican
Patriot, by T. Flint, 96
Friendly Club, The, 31
Fuller, Margaret, on Brown and
Godwin, 51n

Gamesters, The; or, Ruins of Inno-
cence, by Mrs. Warren, 14
Godwin, William, Caleb Williams,
Influence of, 30, 32, 34, 50; ana-
lyzed, 35-37; discussion of, 36n;
Brown's debts to, 50-51, 57
Gothic, The, and the revolutionary,
29-58

Gothic novel, Reign of the, 29;
essence of the, 30; reaction
against the, 56n

Hapless Orphan, The, or Innocent
Victim of Revenge, analyzed, 17-

19

Hart, Catherine Julia, Canada's first
novelist, 103

Hentz, N. M., Tadeuskund, the Last

King of the Lenape, 98–99; the
husband of Caroline Lee Whiting,
98n

Hilliard d'Auberteuil, Michel René,
Miss MacRae analyzed, 61-63;
other works of, 61n
Historical novels and Indian tales,
Early, 59-81

History of Constantius and Pulchera,
or Constancy rewarded, analyzed,
64-65

History of Maria Kettle, by Mrs.
Ann E. Bleecker, 66-67

History of the Female American,
or the Extraordinary Adventures
of Unca Eliza Winkfield, Com-
piled by Herself, analyzed, 77-79
Hitchcock, Rev. Enos, on novel
reading, 2; on independence in
culture, 2; and his educational
tales, 20-22; Memoirs of the
Bloomsgrove Family, 20-21; The
Farmer's Friend; or the History
of Mr. Charles Worthy, 21; The
Art of Courting, 21; Massachus-
etts Magazine on, 21n
Hobomok, by Lydia Maria Child,

100-101

Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the
Massachusetts, by Catherine M.
Sedgwick, 102-103

Horrid Mysteries by the Marquis of
Grosse, 42

Humphrey Clinker, the last book of
the century by a great novelist, 4

Idealism and Infamy, 43

Idol of the sun and its temple, 78-79
Illuminati, The Order of the, 41-
430, 52

Imlay, Gilbert, The Emigrants, 68–
69

Inchbald, Mrs., 34, 68

Indian, The, in fiction, 60, 66-68,
92; C. B. Brown's attitude toward
the, 72-73; exploitation of, by
John Davis, 74, 75; by J. F.
Cooper, 88-89; by later writers,
103-104

Indian tales, Early historical novels
and, 59-81

Indians, Use of, in war, 63, 66;
Brown emphasized their faults,
Cooper their virtues, 88-89
Individuality, The cult of, 50
Ingénu, Voltaire's, 60

Italian, The, by Mrs. Radcliffe, 29

Jane Talbot, by C. B. Brown, 33,
45, 48-50

Julia and the Illuminated Baron, by
Mrs. Wood, 52-53

Keep Cool, by John Neal, 92
Kelroy, by Rebecca Rush, 15

King, Sophia, Waldorf, or the Dan-
gers of Philosophy, 52n
Knigge, Baron von, Ueber den
Umgang mit Menschen, 42

Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte, and her
novels, 7n

Leslie Linkfield by M. Coulter-
shoggle, 99

Literary activity, Early, in America,

I

Literary Magazine and American
Register, 34

Logan, by John Neal, 92
Lounsbury, T. R., Life of Cooper,
84n; on Cooper's heroines, 86

McHenry, James, The Wilderness,
or Braddock's Times, 94–95; The
Spectre of the Forest, 95; Irish
insurrectionary tales, 95
Massachusetts Magazine, the shrine

of sentimental didacticism, 15;
character of its contents, 15-16;
criticism of The Hapless Orphan,
17n; of the Art of Courting, 21n
Matthews, Brander, The Historical
Novel and other Essays, 59n
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist,
by C. B. Brown, 38-39
Memoirs of Stephen Calvert, by C.
B. Brown, 33

Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove
Family, by Rev. Enos Hitchcock,

20-21

Miss MacRae, by Hilliard d'Auber-
teuil, analyzed, 61-63

Mitchell, I., The Asylum, or Alonzo
and Melissa, 53-54

Modern Chivalry, a Quixotic satir-

ical novel by Hugh Henry Brack-
enridge, 22-23, 26

Monthly Magazine and American
Review, 33

Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth, the
first American novelist, 7; the
American Sappho, 7; her novel,
The Power of Sympathy, ana-
lysed, 7-9; notice of, 7n; in the
Massachusetts Magazine, 15;