General Editor: LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A. B., Professor of English Literature and Rhetoric in Brown University ADDISON-The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers-ABBOTT 30c 40c BUNYAN-The Pilgrim's Progress-LATHAM. 30c BURKE-Speech on Conciliation with America-DENNEY. 25c CARLYLE-Essay on Burns-AITON... 25с 40c COOPER-Last of the Mohicans-LEWIS.. 40c COLERIDGE-The Ancient Mariner, 1 vol.-MOODY 25c DE QUINCEY-Joan of Arc and Selections-MOODY... 25c 25c 30c 40c HAWTHORNE-The House of the Seven Gables-HERRICK 35c HAWTHORNE-Twice-Told Tales-HERRICK AND BRUERE. 40c IRVING-Life of Goldsmith-KRAPP.. 40c IRVING-The Sketch Book-KRAPP... 40c IRVING-Tales of a Traveller-and parts of The Sketch Book-KRAPP 40c LAMB-Essays of Elia-BENEDICT.. 35c LONGFELLOW-Narrative Poems-POWELL. 40c LOWELL-Vision of Sir Launfal-See Coleridge. MACAULAY-Essays on Addison and Johnson-NEWCOMER. 30c MACAULAY-Essays on Clive and Hastings-NEWCOMER 35с MACAULAY-Essays on Milton and Addison-NEWCOMER, 30c MILTON-L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas-NEILSON POPE-Homer's Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV-CRESSY AND SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel-MOODY AND WILLARD. 25c SCOTT-Marmion-MOODY AND WILLARD.. 30c SHAKSPERE-The Neilson Edition-Edited by W. A. NEILSON, AS You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Henry 25с SHAKSPERE-Merchant of Venice-LOVETT. 25c STEVENSON-Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey-LEONARD 35c STEVENSON-Treasure Island-BROADUS.. 25c THACKERAY-Henry Esmond-PHELPS.. 50с THACKERAY-English Humorists-CUNLIFFE AND WATT 30c Three American Poems-The Raven, Snow-Bound, Miles Standish- The Lake English Classics EDITED BY LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A.B. Professor of English Literature and Rhetoric in Brown University PREFACE. American speeches have always been studied enthusiastically by Americans; not primarily because of their literary value, but because of their satisfying statement of American ideals. The words of Washington, Webster, and Lincoln express the national aspiration in ways that are forever memorable. Their phrases have passed into maxims and into the daily speech of their countrymen. The appeal they make is to the historical imagination. Consequently they can be appreciated best by those who bring to the reading the fullest knowledge of the historical events and governmental principles to which they refer. For this reason the notes explain, or put the student in the way of explaining for himself, the leading historical ideas with which Washington, Webster, and Lincoln deal in their addresses. But while the interest in these addresses is‣ primarily historical, the editor has not neglected the literary and rhetorical phase of the study. To this phase are devoted a part of the introduction and a considerable body of the notes. COLUMBUS, OHIO, January, 1910. |