Chapter Scholars and Essayists of Index by Simonds History of American Literature

of the monumental History of American Literature in Colonial Times (1878) and The Literary History of the American Revolution (1897). Thomas R. Lounsbury (1838-1915), of Yale University, author of the volume on Cooper (1882) in the American Men of Letters Series, Charles F. Richardson (1851- 1913), of Dartmouth, Brander Matthews (born 1852), of Columbia, and Barrett Wendell (1855-1921), of Harvard, have all done conspicuous work in this field. Two distinguished Harvard scholars, Francis J. Child (1825-1896) and Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), should be included in this list. Professor Child is our principal authority on the Scotch and English ballads; Professor Norton was the author of a prose translation of Dante, and edited the letters of Lowell, of Emerson, of Carlyle, and of Ruskin.