AMERICAN LITERATURE. 539 Among American travellers of the last century, we inay name JOHN BARTRAM (1701-1777), who described East Florida; JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772), a Quaker, in whose Journal of a Tour in England Charles Lamb delighted; JONATHAN CARVER (1732-1780), who explored the interior of North America, trying to reach the Pacific; and JOHN LEDYARD (1751-1789), who travelled both in frozen Siberia and burning Africa, dying at Cairo. TIMOTHY FLINT, the novelist (1780-1840) contributed to this branch of American literature The Geography and History of the Mississippi Valley-HENRY SCHOOLCRAFT (born 1793), Tours in Missouri, Arkansas, and the Copper Region of Lake Superior, besides various important works upon the Red Race in America and CHARLES WILKES, of the United States Navy, A Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, giving an account of travels in Chili, Peru, and the South Seas. CALEB CUSHING's Reminiscences of Spain; GEORGE CHEEVER's Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and Pilgrim in the Shadow of the Jungfrau; BAYARD TAYLOR'S Sketches in the East; J. T. HEADLEY's Letters from Italy, the Alps, and the Rhine, are among the most readable books of late American travel. 66 'Beowulf," the epic, 19. Bible, Wycliffe's translation of the, 50, 51; Book, the tree and the, 9. Book-making, first steps in, 10. Book-binding, 75. Book-room, an ancient, 12. Books, leather, 10. Books in Greek and Roman days, 11. Booksellers' shops, 299. Britons, conjecture concerning ancient, 15. "Brut," Layamon's, 34. CAIRNS and altars, 10. Castle hall, picture of a, 36. Cavaliers- their dress, 176; their wild life, Celtic writers, 16. Charles II., the court of, 219. Chronicles, the, 30. Comedy and tragedy, 103, 360. Conquest, effects of the Norman 28. Contrast, a literary, 259. Copyist, picture of a, 41. Cords, knotted, 10. Cortez, how Montezuma was informed DEBATES, Parliamentary, 255. ENCYCLOPÆDIAS, the, 258. FRENCH influence in the court of Charles GAZETTE, the LONDON, 254. Gleeman, the Anglo-Saxon, 18. HACKS, Grub Street, 295; extract from ILLUMINATIONS, 41. LATIN writers among ancient Britons, 17. Literary profession, influence of Walpole | Poetry, Latin, of the Norman times, 30. MACHINE, König's, 435; success of, in Managers, waiting on, 298. Metre, English, 358. Minstrel, the Anglo-Saxon, 18. Miracle plays, or mysteries, 101. Moralities, the, 102. Poison, the, too strong, 221. their influence upon English literature, 176. REPORTING, early, 255. Reviews, the, 257. Romance, English metrical, Dr. Craik's summary of, 40. Romance, nature of the, 32. NEWSLETTER, the, 254. Newspapers, earliest, 253. Newspapers and serials, 253. the, 85. Romance, the Norman, 29. Romance tongues of France, 29. New Testament, Tyndale's translation of Romances relating to King Arthur, 32. Norman-French writers, 32. OBJECTIVE and subjective, 362. PAPERS of the Civil War, 253. "Paraphrase of Caedmon," the, 19; extract Parchment and vellum, 11. Periodical literature, when foundation of, Periodical writers, 258. Phonetics, 15. Picture, a sad, 220. Picture-writing, 12; of old Mexico, 12. Plays and players of Old England, 101. Poet, passage from Macaulay on word, 296. Poetry, inverted order of words in, 359; |