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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). rn VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II.

XIII. Later Essayists

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See, also, Bibliography to Book III, Chap. VI.

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Higginson, Mary Thacher. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The Story of his Life. Boston, 1914. [Valuable bibliography.]

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See, also, Bibliography to Book III, Chap. XVIII.

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Fields, Annie Adams. Charles Dudley Warner. 1904.

Whipple, Edwin Percy. Essays and Reviews. 1848. 2 vols. Washington and the Principles of the Revolution. An Oration.… 4 July, 1850. Boston, 1850. Lectures on Subjects connected with Literature and Life. Boston, 1850. As: Literature and Life. Boston, 1871. Eulogy on John Albion Andrew. Boston, 1867. Success and its Conditions. Boston, 1871. Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. Boston, 1876. Men of Mark. [1877.] Character and Characteristic Men. Boston, 1877. Some Recollections of Rufus Choate. 1879. Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers. Boston, 1886. American Literature and Other Papers. 1887. Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics. Boston, 1888. Edited: Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays by Lord Macaulay. With Memoir.… 1860. Christmas Books by Charles Dickens. Boston, 1881. The Family Library of British Poetry. Boston, 1882 [with J. T. Fields]. Daniel Webster for Young Americans.… Boston, 1903. The Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, with an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style.… Boston, 1906.

Winter, William. The Trip to England. 1879. English Rambles: and Other Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse. Boston, 1884. Brief Chronicles. 1889–90. 3 pts. The Actor and Other Speeches, chiefly on Theatrical Subjects and Occasions. 1891. Gray Days and Gold. 1891. Old Shrines and Ivy. 1892. Shakespeare’s England. 1892. [Made up of The Trip to England, 1879, and English Rambles, 1884]. Brown Heath and Blue Bells; being Sketches of Scotland, with Other Papers. 1895. Old Friends; being Literary Recollections of Other Days. 1909. Over the Border. 1911. Shakespeare on the Stage. 1911–18. 3 vols. Vagrant Memories. 1915.

See, also, Bibliographies to Book III, Chaps. X and XVIII.

LILLIAN LANG