The Wampum Library AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. Selected and edited, with an Introductory Essay on the Short Story, by CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN, A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Yale University. AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM. Selected and edited, with an Introductory Essay, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE, LL.D., Associate Editor of "The Dial." AMERICAN FAMILIAR VERSE. Vers de Société. Edited, with an Introduction, by BRANDER MATTHEWS, Litt. D. (Yale), of Columbia University. LITERARY CRITICISM SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE, LL.D. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 AND 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK LONDON AND BOMBAY 1904 To get rid of provinciality is a certain stage of culture; a stage the positive result of which we must not make of too much importance, but which is nevertheless indispensable, for it brings us on to the platform where alone the best and highest intellectual work can be said fairly to begin. - MATTHEW Arnold. |