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 Little Brown, Cable's The Grandissimes by Scribner, and Howe's The Story of a Country Town by Harper. Miss Woolson's novels were published by Harper, and some of them are still in print. Mrs. Deland's John Ward, Preacher and Bellamy's Looking Backward are both published by Houghton Mifflin. The novels and stories of Stockton were issued by Scribner in a collected edition of 23 volumes in 1899-1904. The Captain's Toll-Gate (1903) contains a biographical sketch and a bibliography by Mrs. Stockton. The works of Eugene Field are published in 12 volumes by Scribner, as was also Slason Thompson's Eugene Field (1905: 2 vols.). The novels of Marion Crawford are published in 32 vols, by Macmillan, but Crawford still lacks a biography.

the rococo romancers see Paul Leicester Ford's essay The American Historical Novel (Atlantic: December, 1897), Pattee's American Literature since 1870, and the text and bibliography of Chapter xi in Vols. III and IV of the Cambridge History. Most of these novels are still in print. S. Weir Mitchell's Hugh Wynne is published by Century as are his other chief novels. His works were collected in 16 vols. (Century: 1910). Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is published by Appleton in an edition which has a biographical preface by Ripley Hitchcock. Norris's works are published by Doubleday Page, who in 1914 issued a small pamphlet, Frank Norris, by Charles G. Norris. The novels of Jack London have recently been reissued in an edition of 21 volumes by Macmillan. No biography of either Norris or London has yet been published. For the living novelists a competent critical discussion is still lacking, though some material may be found in the following