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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. 8 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 7 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 3 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
aliburton, a prolific Nova Scotian, began the series of short sketches from which emerged one of the most famous of the early Yankee characters, Sam Slick the Clockmaker. It must suffice barely to mention a number of the earlier volumes of American humour which attained popularity but which today are known only to the student. David Crockett's Autobiography (1834) may not belong here, though it is certainly one of the raciest of all the books in its kind. Crayon sketches (1833), by William Cox (d. 1851), an English journalist working in New York, consists of a series of amusing essays contributed to The New York Mirror, satirizing the literary infirmities of the times and hitting off well-known actors. Especially popular were the sketches of himself and the burlesque biography of the old city constable, Jacob Hays. The Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam Doctor (1833), is a mock-heroic biography of a spoiled child,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, 181 Copeland, C. T., 388 Coplas de Manrique, 40 Copperhead, the, 286 Copperhead Convention, the, 286 Corn, 337, 343 Correspondence of the American Revolution, the, 117 Cortes, Hernando, 128, 129 Cotter's Saturday night, the, 50, 353 Cotton, John, 396 Cotton boll, the, 293, 309 Countryman, the, 348, 350 Courier (Louisville), 296 Courier and Enquirer, 183, 187, 193 Courtship of Miles Standish and other poems, the, 38 Cowper, 40, 238 Cox, Palmer, 408 Cox, William, 151 Cozzens, Frederick Swartout, 154 Crabbe, George, 50 Cranch, C. P., 166, 183 Crashaw, 343 Crayon sketches, 151 Crismus times is come, 330 Critic, the, 263 n. Crockett, David, Autobiography, 151 Cross, Marian Evans, 172, 371, 372, 375 Cross of snow, the, 40 Crossing at Fredericksburg, the, 281 Cruise of the Monitor, the, 282 Crumbling Idols, 390 Cry to Arms, a, 295, 298, 303 Crystal, the, 344 Cudjo's Cave, 405 Culver, Judge, 267 Cumberland, the