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is complete, and its bibliographical notes are admirable. In the Riverside Literature Series, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Evangeline, Hiawatha, Tales of a Wayside Inn, are printed in separate numbers.

The Life of Longfellow (3 vols.), by his brother, Samuel Longfellow, is the standard biography. The Longfellow in the American Men of Letters Series is by T. W. Higginson; that in the Great Writers Series is by E. S. Robertson. The best brief biography is that by G. R. Carpenter, in the Beacon Biographies. Mrs. Annie Fields, in Authors and Friends, Edward Everett Hale, in Fireside Travels: Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, and W. D. Howells, in My Literary Friends and Acquaintance, have written interesting reminiscences of the poet. Valuable studies of Longfellow are to be found in Richardson's American Literature (vol. ii), Stedman's Poets of America, Trent's History of American Literature, Wendell's Literary History of America, and Vincent's American Literary Masters. An interesting book of reference is The Wayside Inn, its History and Literature, by S. A. Bent. A delightful essay upon Longfellow is found in the Literary and Social Essays, by G. W. Curtis.

Most noteworthy among the publications inspired by the one hundredth anniversary of Longfellow's birth are the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Charles Eliot Norton (Houghton Mifflin Company), The Centenary of Longfellow (Atlantic Monthly, March, 1907), by Bliss Perry, and the critical article in the North American Review, March, 1907, by W. D. Howells.