A Manual of American Literature

Excerpt from A Manual of American Literature: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges

HE systematic study of English Literature, as part of the course of ordinary English education, has been introduced almost entirely within' the last thirty years.

The reader who will take the trouble to look over the old catalogues of our Colleges and Schools, will find no vestige of such a study prior to 1844. The Class Book of Poetry and the Class Book of Prose, issued in 1844, by the author of the present volume, were a feeble beginning in this line. Though intended primarily for reading-books, they were to some extent studies in literature. The selections from the various authors were in each case prefixed by a brief critical and biographical notice of the author, and were arranged in chronological order, so as to fumish the teacher and the scholar with something like an outline of the general eentse of English Literature.

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