BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. A SPECIAL VOLUME, designed to inculcate patriotic senti. ment, would be incomplete without recognition of earlier American effort, in similar endeavor. Prior to 1860, and before sectional sentiment had disturbed national unity, choice Biblical, classical, and colonial selections appeared in all school reading-books. Then followed illustrated series, with less space for the teachings of the fathers. Old gems of British literature were dropped as "old style." And yet the lexicographer, Webster, the geographer, Olney, and the grammarian, Lindley Murray, crowned their other service to the young, by culling all literature, for use in reading, recitation, and declamation. The following named volumes are among those which have been utilized in the present compilation. "American Selections," 1796, Noah Webster; "The Columbian Orator," 1797; and the "American Preceptor," 1799, Caleb Bingham; “The Speaker," 1803, William Enfield; “The English Reader," 1807, 1823, 1831, Lindley Murray; "The American Reader," 1810, Asa Lyman; "The American Orator," 1811, 1813, Increase Cooke; "The Historical Reader," 1825, J. L. Blake; "The Classical Reader," 1826, Greenwood & Emerson; Porter's Analysis," 1828, Ebenezer Porter; "Studies in Poetry and Prose," 1830, George B. Cheever; "The National Reader," 1829, 1833, 1834, John Pierpont; "The Popular Reader," 1834, Jason Onley; "The First Class Reader," 1834, B. D. Emerson; "The United States Speaker," 1835, John E. Lovell; "The National Preceptor," 1835, Ansel Phelps; "The Rhetorical Reader," 1835, Ebenezer Porter; "The School Reader Series," 1836, Charles W. Sanders; "The American Elocutionist," 1844, William Russell; "The American Common School Reader," 1844, Goldsbury & Russell; "McGuffey's Rhetorical Guide," 1844, (The Eclectic Series); "The Elementary School Reader," 1846, Samuel J. Randall; "Town's Readers," Salem Town; "The Southern Speaker and Reader," William R. Babcock; "The Mandeville Series," 1849, Henry Mandeville; "Webb's Normal Readers," J. Russell Webb; "Parker's School Readers" (a series), 1851, Richard J. Parker; "The National Speaker," 1851, Henry B. Megathlin; "The American Orator" (with 567 autographs of eminent orators), 1852, L. C. Munn; "Book of Eloquence," 1852, Charles Dudley Warner; "Sargent's Standard Speaker," 1852, Epes Sargent; "Sargent's Standard Series," 1854, Epes Sargent; "The American School Reader," 1855, Asa Fitz; "The American Comprehensive Reader," 1856, William D. Swan; "The Progressive Readers" (a series), 1856, Town & Holbrook ; "The National Readers " (a series), 1857, Parker & Watson; "The North American Reader," 1858, David D. Tower; "The Progressive Speaker," 1858, Oliver Ellsworth; "Willson's Readers" (chiefly scientific), 1859, Marcius Willson. Shortly after 1860, conservative compilers began to restore valuable, old selections. Thus, 1865, "Hillard's Readers" (Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co., New York); in 1865, "The American Speaker," John D. Philbrick (Thompson, Brown & Co, Boston); and in 1869, J. Madison Webb's Independent Series " (A. S. Barnes & Co., New York), preserved much of the old patriotic literature. In 1866, R. R. Raymond's "Patriotic Speaker" appeared as one of the "Northend Series," published by W. S. P. Hopkins, of New York. Many book publishers of to-day still represent old publishing houses. D. Appleton & Co., A. S. Barnes & Co., and Harper Bros., of New York; and J. B. Lippincott Co., and E. H. Butler & Co. (the latter acquiring the business of Cowperthwaite & Co.), of Philadelphia, have been related to similar work for nearly half a century. In Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Co., Robert S. Davis & Co., and Taggart & Thompson, are succeeded by Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, and Thompson, Brown & Co. In 1868, Ginn Bros. began business, succeeded, in 1874, by Ginn & Heath, and in 1885, by Ginn & Co.; and in the same year, D. C. Heath & Co. were established. In New York, Mark H. Newman & Co., Ivison & Phinney, and Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, disappeared, but Ivison, Lamport & Blakeman, and Sheldon & Co. carried on school-book work. In Philadelphia, Charles De Silver's Sons perpetuated "Sargent's Readers." In Cincinnati, William B. Smith & Co., and Hinkle, Wilson & Co. survived in Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. In California, A. L. Bancroft & Co. became H. H. Bancroft & Co., and The Bancroft Co.; and in North Carolina, Alfred Williams & Co. brought out the "North Carolina Speaker." Other publishers engaged in similar work. The American Book Co., in 1888, merged the interests of many of the large houses in one common interest. In 1885, Edgar O. Silver, previously with D. Appleton & Co. of New York, began business in Boston. Silver, Rogers & Co. succeeded, and in 1888 the house was organized under the present style of Silver, Burdett & Co. To all these houses the compiler of this "Patriotic Series" is indebted for favors extended. Special recognition is due to James A. Potts & Co. (publishers of Geikie's "Hours with the Bible"); Fords, Howard & Hurlburt (publishers of Beecher's works, and Bryant's "Library of Poetry and Song"); and to Houghton & Mifflin, of Boston, who, by special arrangement, are represented in the writings of Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell. As a general rule, selections which can be found in the "Patriotic Reader" (Human Liberty Developed), 1888, and "Columbian Selections," 1892, are not reproduced in this volume. To statesmen, scholars, educators, and writers who have contributed original matter, or submitted matter to be edited for this volume, and to those who have in advance endorsed the plan of the present work, grateful thanks are extended. HENRY B. CARRINGTON. HYDE PARK, MASS., March 2, 1894. BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS. [Abbreviations are explained by the first use of a term, as Harvard College, or Univer- Adams, John, orator, diplomatist; Signer of Dec. Am. Ind.; 2d Pres. U. S.; b. Adams, Samuel, orator; Signer of Dec. Aiken, John, Brit. poet, author, writer; Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances (née Arndt, Ernst Moritz, Germ. poet and teacher in a Republic," p. 329. "Cul- 27 Bard, Milford. See Lofland, John. "The Beecher, Henry Ward, Congregational Benjamin, Park, poet, journalist, trav- Berkley, George, Eng. bishop, scholar, Blaine, James Gillespie, journalist, Bleakie, Robert, Am. manufacturer; b. Boker, George H., poet, diplomatist; b. Brougham, Lord Henry, British peer, land, 1779; (Edinburgh Univ.); d. 1868. p. Bruyère (Brü-e' yair', or Brü' yair'), French moralist and scholar; b. at Burleigh, William Henry, mechanic, Burns, Robert, Scotch poet; b. Ayr, Busbee, Charles Manly, lawyer, orator; 66 Byron, George Gordon Noel (Baron), as Carrington, Robert Chase, student; b. Cassius, Caius Longinus, Roman soldier, Chesterfield, Earl Philip Dormer Stan- Choate, Rufus, lawyer, scholar, orator, Cobb, Mark Huntington, teacher, early |