STUDIES IN

AMERICAN LITERATURE

•The

IN

American Literature

A Tert-Book

FOR ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS

BY

CHARLES NOBLE

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC

IN IOWA COLLEGE

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1898

All rights reserved

EducT798.98.615

karvard University,
boste of Educalian Library

To

PROFESSOR SELDEN L. WHITCOMB

My Colleague in the teaching of English TO WHOSE KINDLY CRITICISM AND HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS

THIS BOOK IS DEEPLY INDEBTED