THE MASTERPIECES

AND THE

HISTORY OF LITERATURE

ANALYSIS, CRITICISM, CHARACTER

AND INCIDENT

EDITOR

JULIAN HAWTHORNE

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

JOHN PORTER LAMBERTON JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG
OLIVER H. G. LEIGH

A Song of Emptiness-Vanity of Vanities

COTTON MATHER

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McFingal's Vision of America's Future

FRANCIS HOPKINSON

The Battle of the Kegs.

PHILIP FRENEAU

The Old Indian Burying Ground.

The Early New Englanders

TIMOTHY DWIGHT.

Columbia

AMERICAN LITERATURE. PERIOD II. (CONTINUED).

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Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

Welbeck and Mervyn.

JOEL BARLOW.

Hasty Pudding