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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.) 6 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)
t was always good is too much to assert; but at its best it was a subordinate part of the historian's purpose. The men of this group, the most conspicuous of our recently deceased historians, all worked in constant fear of inaccuracies. Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909) may be placed at the head of the group. He was a prosperous Philadelphia publisher, the grandson of Mathew Carey, See Book III, Chap. XXIX. the publisher, nephew of Henry C. Carey, Ibid., Chap. XXIV. the economist, and sonrican publishers, who before had not been numerous enough to interfere seriously with each other or able to supply the demands for British classics, entered on an absorbing race in speed of publications and in underselling powers. In 1823 Carey & Lea of Philadelphia received advance copies of cantos eleven and thirteen of Byron's Don Juan. It was immediately given out to thirty-five or forty compositors, and within thirty-six hours an American edition was on sale. Later equally marvellous ta
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)
ury, Mary A., 500 Lathrop, George P., 274 Latin grammar (Allen and Greenough) 463, 464 Latin grammar (Gildersleeve), 466 Latin grammar (Lewis, C. T.), 463 Latin hymns, 480 Latin Lexicon (Forcellini), 461 Latin pronunciation, 463 Laughlin, J. L., 357 La Violette, 593, 594 Law of mind, the, 247 Lawrence, Wm. Beach, 434 Lawrence Scientific School, 101 Laws of wages, the, 434 Lawson, T. W., 317 Lawton, E., 435 Lazarre, 90 Lazarus, Emma, 47, 121-22 Lea, Henry Charles, 194-5, 200 Lea, Isaac, 194 Leacock, S., 27 n. Leah the forsaken, 271 Leather Stocking and Silk, 67 Leatherwood God, the, 84 Leaves from the diary of an Impressionist, 155 Lebensbilder aus der Westlichen Hemisphare, 579 L'Echo National, 593 Lecky, W. E. H., 6 Le Colon Voyageur, 591 Le Comte de Carmagnola, 592 Le Comte de Monte Christo, 592 Le Conte, 244, 246 n. Le Courrier Francais, 591 Lectures (Channing, E. T.), 471 Lectures (Hudson, H. N.),