1907

70 Books I Have Read

Title, The Psychological Principles of Education

Author, Herman Harrell Horne

Publisher, Macmillan Company

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Jan. 16, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

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Books I Have Read 71

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72 Books I Have Read

Title, White Fang

Author, Jack London

Publisher, The Macmillan Company

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Jan. 15, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Books I Have Read 73

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74 Books I Have Read

Title, The Call of the Blood

Author, Robert Hichens

Publisher, Harpers

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Feb. 28, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Books I Have Read 75

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76 Books I Have Read

Title, The Bible as English Literature

Author, J. H. Gardnier

Publisher, Scribner’s

When and Where Read, Wilmington, March 14, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Books I Have Read 77

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78 Book I Have Read

Title, Far from the Maddening Girls

Author, Guy Wetmore Carryl

Publisher, Harper

When and Where Read, Wilmington, April 4, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Books I Have Read 79

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80 Books I Have Read

Title, Madame de Treymes

Author, Edith Wharton

Publisher, Scribner

When and Where Read, Wilmington, April 5, 1907

Department of Literature, Novelette

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 81

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82 Books I Have Read

Title, Pilgrims’ Progress

Author, John Bunyan

Publisher, Lipton Pub Co.

When and Where Read, Wilmington, April 17, 1907

Department of Literature, Allegorical Romance

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Books I Have Read 83

Comment and Questions,

Title, The Very Small Person

Author, Annie Hamilton Donnell

Publisher, Harper’s

When and Where Read, Wilmington, April 21, 1907

Department of Literature, Short Stories

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 85

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86 Books I Have Read

Title, Before Adam

Author, Jack London

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Wilmington. May 11, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Books I Have Read 87

Comment and Questions,

 

88 Books I Have Read

Title, New Chronicles of Rebecca

Author, Kate Douglas Wiggin

Publisher, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

When and Where Read, Wilmington, May 12, 1907

Department of Literature, Short Stories

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 89

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90 Books I Have Read

Title, Seven Lamps for the Teacher’s Way

Author, J. J. Hill

Publisher, Grim & Company

When and Where Read,

Department of Literature, Wilmington, May 26, 1907

Sketch of Contents, Essay

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Books I Have Read 91

Comment and Questions,

 

92 Books I Have Read

Title, Henry Esmond

Author, William M. Thackeray

Publisher, Wilmington, June 8, 1907

When and Where Read, Novel

Department of Literature,

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 93

Comment and Questions,

 

94 Books I Have Read

Title, The History of English Literature

Author, W. V. Moody and Robert Morss Lovett

Publisher, Scribner

When and Where Read, Wilmington, June 10, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay (Text Book)

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 95

Comment and Questions,

 

96 Books I Have Read

Title, Blood Will Tell

Author, Benjamin Rush Davenport

Publisher, Caxton Book Company

When and Where Read, Wilmington, June 11, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 97

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Most ungodly trash!

 

98 Books I Have Read

Title, Midsummer Night’s Dream

Author, William Shakespeare

Publisher, University Society

When and Where Read, Wilmington, June 23, 1907

Department of Literature, Drama

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Books I Have Read 99

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100 Books I Have Read

Title, The Lion and the Mouse

Author, Charles Klein

Publisher, G. W. Dillingham Company

When and Where Read, Wilmington, June 27, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 101

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102 Books I Have Read

Title, Exposition in Classroom Practice

Author, Theodore C. Mitchell and George R. Carpenter

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell University, July 7, 1907 Ithaca, N.Y.

Department of Literature, Essay

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Books I Have Read 103

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104 Books I Have Read

Title, Study and Teaching of History

Author, H. B. Adams, Ph.D. John Hopkins Univ.

Publisher, Educational Pamphlet

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. Ithaca N.Y. July 8, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 105

Comment and Questions,

*Begin the second year

 

106 Books I Have Read

Title, The Higher Study of English

Author, Albert S. Cook

Publisher, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. July 11, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 107

Comment and Questions,

 

108 Books I Have Read

Title, Sketch Book

Author, Washington Irving

Publisher, Macmillan Co.

When and Where Read, Cornell, Ithaca N.Y. July 14, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 109

Comment and Questions,

 

110 Books I Have Read

Title, * August Boeckh’s Theory of Scholarship

Author, Antoinette Green

Publisher, Unpublished Thesis

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. * July 18, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 111

Comment and Questions,

 

112 Books I Have Read

Title, Theocritus, Bion & Moschus

Author, Translated into English Prose by Andrew Lang

Publisher, Macmillan & Co.  

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. July 20, 1907

Department of Literature, Pastoral Poetry

Sketch of Contents,

            Three poets of the Alexandrian period rendered into Eng. Prose with introductory sketch by Andrew Lang.

Page References,

Books I Have Read 113

Comment and Questions,

 

 

114 Books I Have Read

Title, In Memoriam

Author, Alfred Tennyson

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. July 21, 1907 

Department of Literature, Elegy

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Books I Have Read 115

Comment and Questions,

 

116 Books I Have Read

Title, Pearl

Author, Unknown. Translated by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell

Publisher, Century Company

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. July 25, 1907

Department of Literature, Medieval Poem

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Books I Have Read 117

Comment and Questions,

July 26

Great shame it is oh heart

Of mine

That one keen glance from

Sad gray eyes

Should thrill my veins

Like pure new wine.

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Ulysses – Tennyson.

 

118 Books I Have Read

Title, Outline of Historical Method

Author, Fred Morrow Fling

Publisher, J. H. Miller

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. July 27, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

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Books I Have Read 119

Comment and Questions,

 

120 Books I Have Read

Title, Sesame and Lilies  

Author, John Ruskin

Publisher, Wiley and Sons

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. July 28, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Boos I Have Read 121

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122 Books I Have Read

Title, * Life of Charlemagne  

Author, Eginhard or Einhard. Trans. by Samuel Epes Turner

Publisher, Harper Bros.

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ.* July 30, 1907

Department of Literature, Biography

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            Translated from the test of the Monumenta Germaniae. 

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Books I Have Read 123

Comment and Questions,

            To lay the plan of a winter of work.

 

124 Books I Have Read

Title, Lady of the Lake

Author, Walter Scott

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. Aug. 4, 1907

Department of Literature, Narrative Poem

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Books I Have Read 125

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126 Books I Have Read

Title, Gareth and Lynette

Author, Tennyson

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. Aug. 5, 1907

Department of Literature, Poem (Epic/Idyll)

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Books I Have Read 127

Comment and Questions,

“Live pure, speak true, right wrong,

Follow the King –

Else wherefore born?”

Monday Aug. 5, 1907

*“My knights are sworn to vows

Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness,

And, loving, utter faithfulness in love,

And uttermost obedience to the King.”

 

128 Books I Have Read

Title, Grundriss der Historik

Author, Johann Gustav Droyen trans. by E. Benj. Andrews

Publisher, Cornell Univ. Aug. 10, 1907

When and Where Read, Essay

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 129

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130 Books I Have Read

Title, Introduction to the Study of History

Author, Ch. V. Langlois & Ch. Seignobos Trans. by G. G. Berry

Publisher, Henry Holt & Co.

When and Where Read, Cornell Univ. Aug. 11, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 131

Comment and Questions,

 

132 Books I Have Read

Title, The Odyssey

Author, Homer, Tr. by Butcher & Lang

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Aug. 21, 1907

Department of Literature, Epic Poem. Prose Trans.

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Books I Have Read 133

Comment and Questions,

 

134 Books I Have Read

Title, The Iliad  

Author, Homer, Tr. by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Aug. 26, 1907

Department of Literature, Epic Poem. Prose Trans.

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 135

Comment and Questions,

 

136 Books I Have Read

Title, Ghetto Comedies

Author, Israel Zangwill

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Aug. 30, 1907

Department of Literature, Short Stories

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 137

Comment and Questions,

 

138 Books I Have Read

Title, Eve’s Diary  

Author, Mark Twain

Publisher, Harper

When and Where Read, Wilmington. Aug. 31, 1907

Department of Literature, Novelette

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 139

Comment and Questions,

 

140 Books I Have Read

Title, English Literary Criticism

Author, Edited by C. E. Vaughn, with introduction.

Publisher, Blackie & Son – London

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Sept. 1, 1907

Department of Literature, Essays

Sketch of Contents,

Contents: —

  1. An Apology for Poetry

Sir Philip Sidney

  1. Preface to the Fables

John Dryden

  1. On the Metaphysical Poets

Samuel Johnson

  1. On Poetic Genius & Poetic Diction

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. On Poetry in General

William Hazlitt

  1. On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century

Chas. Lamb

  1. On Webster’s Duchess of Malfi

Lamb

  1. On Ford’s Broken Heart
  2. A Defense of Poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelly

  1. Goethe

Thomas Carlyle

  1. Sandro Botticelli

Walter Pater

Page References,

Books I Have Read 141

Comment and Questions,

 

142 Books I Have Read

Title, The Sunken Bell

Author, Gerhart Hauptman

Publisher, William Heinemann

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Sept. 1, 1907

Department of Literature, Drama

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 143

Comment and Questions,

 

144 Books I Have Read

Title, The Brass Bowl

Author, Louis Joseph Vance

Publisher, Bobbs-Merrill Co.

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Sept. 2, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 145

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146 Books I Have Read

Title, Laokoon

Author, G. E. Lessing

Publisher, Geo Bell & Sons, London

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Sept. 21, 1907

Department of Literature, Criticism

Sketch of Contents,

Vol.  Containing also “How the Ancients Represented Death”

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Books I Have Read 147

Comment and Questions,

 

148 Books I Have Read

Title, Margaret Ogilvy by her Son

Author, J. M. Barrie

Publisher, Scribner

When and Where Read, Ithaca, NY. Oct 1, 1907

Department of Literature, Familial Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 149

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150 Books I Have Read  

Title, Theory of Poetry and the Fine Arts

Author, Aristotle, tr. by S. H. Butcher

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Essay

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 151

Comment and Questions,

 

152 Books I Have Read

Title, Principles of English Verse

Author, Charlton M. Lewis

Publisher, Henry Holt and Company

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 7, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 153

Comment and Questions,

 

154 Books I Have Read

Title, A Lecture on Painting

Author, Leonardo Da Vinci, tr. by John Francis Rigaud

Publisher, Geo Bell & Sons

When and Where Read, Ithaca, October 12, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 155

Comment and Questions,

 

156 Books I Have Read

Title, The Bottle Imp

Author, Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher, Monroe & Sons

When and Where Read, Ithaca, Oct. 13, 1907

Department of Literature, Novelette

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 157

Comment and Questions,

 

158 Books I Have Read

Title, Empedocles on Aetna

Author, Matthew Arnold

Publisher,

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 15, 1907 

Department of Literature, Dramatic Lyric

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 159

Comment and Questions,

 

160 Books I Have Read

Title, Life of Constantine the Great  

Author, Eusebius, Tr. by E. C. Richardson

Publisher, Chr. [Christian] Literature Co.  

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 15, 1907

Department of Literature, Biography

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 161

Comment and Questions,

 

162 Books I Have Read

Title, The Art of Writing

Author, Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher, Chatto & Windus

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 17, 1907

Department of Literature, Essays

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 163

Comment and Questions,

 

164 Books I Have Read

Title, The Virginian

Author, Owen Wister

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 23, ‘07

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 165

Comment and Questions,

 

166 Books I Have Read

Title, An Essay on the Sublime & Beautiful

Author, Edmund Burke

Publisher, Lipton Pub. Co.

When and Where Read, Essay

Department of Literature,

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Books I Have Read 167

Comment and Questions,

 

168 Books I Have Read

Title, The Clouds

Author, Aristophanes, tr. by—

Publisher,

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 29, 1907

Department of Literature, Drama

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 169

Comment and Questions,

 

170 Books I Have Read

Title, A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon

Author, Robert Browning

Publisher, Oxford – Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct 29, 1907

Department of Literature, Drama

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 171

Comment and Questions,

 

172 Books I Have Read

Title, Strafford

Author, Robert Browning

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell, Oct. 29 1907

Department of Literature, Drama

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Books I Have Read 173

Comment and Questions,

 

174 Books I Have Read

Title, Treatise on the Sublime

Author, Longinus, Tr. by H. V. Havell, Introd. By Andrew LAng

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 6, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 175

Comment and Questions,

 

176 Books I Have Read

Title, Complete Works, Poems, & Essays

Author, William Wordsworth

Publisher, Henry Frowde, Oxford Edition

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 6, 1907

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 177

Comment and Questions,

 

178 Books I Have Read

Title, The Prose Poetry of Thomas De Quincy

Author, Lane Cooper

Publisher, Printed at Leipzig, Verlag Van der Seele Co.

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 6, 1907

Department of Literature, (Thesis.) Essay

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Books I Have Read 179

Comment and Questions,

 

180 Books I Have Read

Title, The Early Life of Wordsworth  

Author, Emile Legouis

Publisher, Cornell, Nov. 11, 1907

When and Where Read, Biography

Department of Literature,

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 181

Comment and Questions,

 

182 Books I Have Read

Title, Memoirs of William Wordsworth

Author, Christopher Wordsworth Edited by Henry Reed, 2 vols.

Publisher,

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 15, 1907

Department of Literature, Biography

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 183

Comment and Questions,

 

184 Books I Have Read

Title, Biographia Literaria

Author, S. T. Coleridge

Publisher, Wm. [William] Pickering, London

When and Where Read, Cornell – Nov. 21, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 185

Comment and Questions,

 

186 Books I Have Read

Title, Journal. 2 vols.

Author, Dorothy Wordsworth ed. Wm. Knight

Publisher, Macmillan

When and Where Read, Cornell. Nov. 23, 1907

Department of Literature, Biography

Sketch of Contents,

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Books I Have Read 187

Comment and Questions,

 

188 Books I Have Read

 Title, Prometheus and Other Dramas

Author, Aeschylus tr. by Bloomfield & Scholfield

Publisher, Hy. [Henry] Slatter, London 

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 24 1907

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Comprising

Prometheus

Seven Against Thebes

The Persians

Agamemnon

The Choephori

The Furies

The Supplicants

Page References,

Books I Have Read 189

Comment and Questions,

 

190 Books I Have Read

Title, Coleorton Letters, or Memoirs of Coleorton

Author, Edited by William Knight

Publisher, Houghton, Mifflin

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 26, 1907

Department of Literature, Letters

Sketch of Contents,

            Letters from Wordsworth, Mrs. W. Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Sir Walter Scott to Sir George and Lady Beaumont at Coleorton.

Page References,

Books I Have Read 191

Comment and Questions,

 

192 Books I Have Read

Title, English Verse

Author, Raymond McDonald Alden

Publisher, Henry Holt & Co.

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 30, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 193

Comment and Questions,

 

194 Books I Have Read

Title, Prefaces & Essays Poetry

Author, William Wordsworth

Publisher,

When and Where Read, Cornell, Nov. 30, 1907

Department of Literature,

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 195

Comment and Questions,

 

196 Books I Have Read

Title, Paradise Regained

Author, Milton edited by Rev. Hy. J. Todd  

Publisher, Saul & Gilbert, London

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 7, 1907

Department of Literature, Epic

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 197

Comment and Questions,

 

198 Books I Have Read

Title, William Wordsworth im urteile seiner zeit

Author, Karl Bömig

Publisher, Buchdruckerei, Borna-Leipzig

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 1, 1907

Department of Literature, Thesis

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 199

Comment and Questions,

 

200 Books I Have Read

Title, Literary Criticism

Author, Wordsworth, Ed. by Nowell C. Smith

Publisher, Fronde, London

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 3, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 201                  

Comment and Questions,

 

202 Books I Have Read

Title, Classical Mythology in Shakespeare

Author, Robert Kilburn Root, Ph.D.

Publisher, Henry Holt & Co. Yale Studies in Eng.

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 10, 1907

Department of Literature, Thesis

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 203

Comment and Questions,

 

204 Books I Have Read

Title, Select Translations from Scaliger Poetics

Author, Fred Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.

Publisher, Henry Holt & Co.

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 14, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 205

Comment and Questions,

 

206 Books I Have Read

Title, Life of William Wordsworth

Author, William Knight 3 vols.

Publisher, Paterson (Edinburgh)

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 16, 1907

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 207

Comment and Questions,

 

208 Books I Have Read

Title, Lyrical Ballads of 1798

Author, Wordsworth & Coleridge

Publisher, Edited by Thos. [Thomas] Hutchinson

When and Where Read,

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 209

Comment and Questions,

 

Books I Have Read 210

Title, Poems, Edition (Reprint of 1807)

Author, Wordsworth. Edited by Thos. Hutchinson 2 vols.

Publisher, Longman & Hurst, London

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 18, 1907

Department of Literature,

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 211

Comment and Questions,

 

212 Books I Have Read

Title, Selections from Wordsworth’s Poems

Author, Edited by Edward Dowden

Publisher, Ginn & Company

When and Where Read, Cornell, Dec. 18, 1907

Department of Literature,

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213 Books I Have Read

Comment and Questions,

 

214 Books I Have Read

Title, The Treasure of the Humble  

Author, Maurice Maeterlink

Publisher, Dodd, Mead, & Co.

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Dec. 21, 1907

Department of Literature, Essay

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Page References,

Books I Have Read 215

Comment and Questions,

 

216 Books I Have Read

Title, Jewel. A Chapter in Her Life

Author, Clara Louise Burnham

Publisher, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

When and Where Read, Wilmington, Dec. 28, 1907

Department of Literature, Novel

Sketch of Contents,

Page References,

Books I Have Read 217

Comment and Questions,

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