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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
were but a sorry crutch indeed until well within the nineteenth century. European, especially British, supplies were too cheap and plentiful. Goodrich, speaking of the time about 1820, says that it was positively injurious to the commercial credit of a bookseller to undertake American works unless they might be Morse's Geographies, classical books, Watts's Psalms and Hymns, or something of that class. Hawthorne's The Devil in manuscript has a passage of like tenor; and as late as 1886 Dana Estes of Boston testified before the Senate Committee on Patents: For two years past though I belong to a publishing house that emits nearly $1,000,000 worth of books per year, I have absolutely refused to entertain the idea of publishing an American manuscript. I have returned scores, if not hundreds, of manuscripts of American authors, unopened even, simply from the fact that it is impossible to make the books of most American authors pay, unless they are first published and acquire recog
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Essays historical and literary, 193 Essays in Anglo-Saxon law, 199 Essays in historical criticism, 188 Essays in taxation, 443 Essays on banking, 432 Essays on political economy, 432 Essays on popular education, 410 Essays on the income tax, 359 Essays on the nature and principles of public credit, 429 Essays on the progress of Nations, 434 Essays Philological and critical, 462 Essays upon field Husbandry in New England, 427 Essentials of economic theory, 442 Estes, Dana, 548 Ethel, Agnes, 271 Ethics and Revelation, 211 n. Eugene Field, 28 n., 29 n. Euphorion, 43 Euripides, 460 Europamude, 579 Europeans, the, 98 Evangeline, 275 Evans (Wilson), Augusta Jane, 69 Evans C., 539 Evans G. H., 436 Evans L. J., 205 Evarts, 122 Evening post (New York), 218, 327 Evening Sun (New York), 22 Everett, A. H., 431 Everett, C. C., 240 Everett, Edward, 415, 418, 449, 451, 452, 453, 455, 457 Evershed, Emilie, 597 E