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The following volumes of selections from American Literature will be referred to either by the last name of the author, or, if there are more authors than one, by the initials of the last names:—

Cairns's Selections from Early American Writers, 1607–1800. (Macmillan.)

Trent and Wells's Colonial Prose and Poetry, 3 vols., 1607–1775. (Crowell.)

Stedman and Hutchinson's A Library of American Literature, 1608–1890, 11 vols. (Benjamin.)

Carpenter's American Prose Selections. (Macmillan.)

Trent's Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse. (Macmillan.)

At least one of the selections indicated for each author should be read.

JOHN SMITH.—The Beginnings of Jamestown (from A True Relation of Virginia, 1608); The Religious Observances of the Indians (from A Map of Virginia, published in 1612), Cairns, pp. 2–4, 10–14; The Romance of Pocahontas (from The General History of Virginia, 1624), S. & H., Vol. I., pp. 10–17; T. & W., Vol. I., pp. 12–22.

WILLIAM STRACHEY.—Read the selection from A True Repertory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, in Cairns, 19–26.

POETRY IN THE VIRGINIA COLONY.—For George Sandys, see pp. 51–58 in Vol. I. of Tyler's A History of American Literature during the Colonial Time.

For the elegy on the death of Nathaniel Bacon, see Tyler, Vol. I., 78, 79;

Cairns, 185–188; T. & W., II., 166–169; S. & H., I., 456–458; Trent, 12–14.

DESCRIPTIONS OF VIRGINIA.—The best selection from Beverly's History and Present State of Virginia may be found in T. & W., II., 354–360. See also Trent, 16–18; S. & H., II., 270–272.

For selections from Byrd's History of the Dividing Line, see Cairns, passim, 259–272; Trent, 19–22; T. & W., III., 23–32; S. & H., II., 302–305.

WILLIAM BRADFORD.—The Voyage of the Mayflower, Cairns, 31–35; Early

Difficulties of the Pilgrim Fathers, T. & W., I., 42–45; The Communal

System Abandoned, T. & W., I., 46–49; The Landing of the Pilgrims and their

Settlement at Plymouth, S. & H., L, 124–130.

JOHN WINTHROP.—Twenty-five entries from his Journal or History of New England are given in Cairns, 44–48, and fourteen in T. & W., I., 99–105.

His famous speech on Liberty may be found in T. & W., I., 106–116; in S. & H., I., 302–303; and in Cairns, 50–53.

EARLY NEW ENGLAND VERSE.—The selection in the text (p. 38) from the Bay Psalm Book is sufficient.

For Wigglesworth's Day of Doom, see Cairns, 166–177; T. & W., II., 54–60; S. & H., passim, II., 3–16.

Anne Bradstreet's best poem, Contemplations, may be found in Cairns, 154–162; T. & W., I., 280–283; S. & H., I., 314, 315.

WARD'S SIMPLE COBBLER OF AGAWAM.—His view of religious toleration is given in Cairns, 113–118, and T. & W., I., 253–259. For the satiric essay on women's fashions, see Cairns, 119–124; T. & W., I., 260–266; S. & H. I., 276–280.

SAMUEL SEWALL.—Cairns, 240–243, gives from the Diary the events of a month. Notes on the Witchcraft Persecution and his prayer of repentance for "the blame and shame of it" may be found in T. & W., II., 294–296. The record of his courtship of Madam Winthrop is given in Cairns, 245–249; T. & W., II., 304–319; and S. & H., II., 192–200. For his early anti-slavery tract, see T. & W., II., 320–326; S. & H., II., 189–192.

COTTON MATHER.—His fantastic life of Mr. Ralph Partridge from the Magnalia is given in Cairns, 228, 229. The interesting story of the New England argonaut, Sir William Phips, may be found in T. & W., II., 257–266, and in S. & H., II., 143–149. One of his best biographies is that of Thomas Hooker, S. & H., II., 149–156.

JONATHAN EDWARDS.—For a specimen of an almost poetic exposition of the divine love, read the selection in Cairns, 280, 281; T. & W., III., 148, 149; S. & H., II., 374; and Carpenter, 16, 17, beginning, "I am the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the valleys." Selections from his Freedom of the Will are given in Cairns. 291–294; T. & W., III., 185–187; and S. & H., II., 404–407 (the best).