Volumes of representative selections, prepared by American scholars under the general editorship of Harry Hayden Clark, University of Wisconsin.

Volumes now ready are starred.

American Transcendentalists, Raymond Adams, University of North Carolina

*William Cullen Bryant, Tremaine McDowell, University of Minnesota

*James Fenimore Cooper, Robert E. Spiller, Swarthmore College

*Jonathan Edwards, Clarence H. Faust, University of Chicago, and Thomas H. Johnson, Hackley School

*Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederic I. Carpenter, Harvard University

*Benjamin Franklin, Frank Luther Mott and Chester E. Jorgenson, University of Iowa

*Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, Frederick C. Prescott, Cornell University

Bret Harte

*Nathaniel Hawthorne, Austin Warren, Boston University

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Shafer, University of Cincinnati

*Washington Irving, Henry A. Pochmann, Mississippi State College

Henry James, Lyon Richardson, Western Reserve University

Abraham Lincoln

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Odell Shepard, Trinity College

James Russell Lowell, Norman Foerster, University of Iowa, and Harry H. Clark, University of Wisconsin

Herman Melville, Willard Thorp, Princeton University

John Lothrop Motley

Thomas Paine, Harry H. Clark, University of Wisconsin

Francis Parkman, Wilbur L. Schramm, University of Iowa

*Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Alterton, University of Iowa, and Hardin Craig, Stanford University

William Hickling Prescott, Claude Jones, Johns Hopkins University

*Southern Poets, Edd Winfield Parks, University of Georgia

Southern Prose, Gregory Paine, University of North Carolina

*Henry David Thoreau, Bartholow Crawford, University of Iowa

*Mark Twain, Fred Lewis Pattee, Rollins College

*Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall, University of Texas

John Greenleaf Whittier