BIOGRAPHICAL DATES. BRITISH LITERATURE. FOREIGN LITERATURE. HISTORY. Carducci born. Gutzkow: Zur Philosophie der Ge Schichte. Diez: Gram matik der Ro manischen Sprachen (begun). Guerrazzi: L'Assedio di Mendelssohn's St. Paul performed. Arkansas admitted. Texas an independent republic. Battle of San Jacinto. YEAR. WORKS PUBLISHED. 1836 Cont. 1837. 1838. [Robert M. Bird]: Nick of the Woods. Frances A. Kemble Butler: The Star of Seville. H. C. Carey Political Economy (completed in 1840). [Haliburton] The Clock-Maker (First Series; Third in Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales. [Irving]: Adventures of Captain Bonneville. Andrews Norton: Genuineness of the Gospels (com pleted in 1844). [Paulding]: The Book of Saint Nicholas. Prescott: Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. [Catherine M. Sedgwick]: Live and Let Live. [William Ware]: Letters from Palmyra [or “Zenobia ”]. Whittier: Poems. Gleanings in Europe (Italy). Home as Found. Homeward Bound; or, The Chase. William H. Furness: Jesus and His Biographers. [S. G. Goodrich]: Fireside Education. Greeley THE WHIG ALMANAC.1 Holmes Boylston Prize Dissertations for 1836 and 1837. [Kennedy]: Rob of the Bowl. Lieber: Manual of Political Ethics. Lowell: Class Poem. George P. Morris: The Deserted Bride. Frances Sargent Osgood: A Wreath of Wild Flowers. [Poe]: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. 1 Later, "THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC." YEAR. WORKS PUBLISHED. 1838 Cont. 1839. Ripley Edited Specimens of Foreign Standard Litera- [William Ware]: Probus [or "Aurelian "]. Audubon Ornithological Biography (Vol. V.). W. E. Channing (1st): Self-Culture. Cooper: History of the Navy of the United States. [Longfellow]: Hyperion, a Romance. Voices of the Night. [Motley]: Morton's Hope. Poe: The Conchologist's First Book. Simms The Damsel of Darien. : Tuckerman: Isabel; or, Sicily. Jones Very Essays and Poems. Noah Webster: Observations on Language. Willis Tortesa; or, The Usurer Matched. A L'Abri (same as "Letters from Under a 1840. Jacob Abbott: Rollo's Correspondence. Rollo's Travels. Mrs. John Adams: Letters, edited by Charles Francis Adams. Calvert Cabiro (Cantos I. and II.). W. E. Channing (1st): Emancipation. The Pathfinder. [R. H. Dana, Jr.]: Two Years before the Mast. 1 In an official report. |