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.
