1896. Contents: The Colonial Period; Benjamin Franklin; Washington Irving; James Fenimore Cooper; William Cullen Bryant; Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; John Greenleaf Whittier; Edgar Allan Poe; Oliver Wendell Holmes; David Henry Thoreau; James Russell Lowell; Francis Parkman; Other Writers and The End of the Nineteenth Century.