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 CHAPTER XXVI

PATRIOTIC SONGS AND HYMNS

By Percy H. Boynton, A.M., Associate Professor of English in the University of Chicago.

Patriotic Songs. Yankee Doodle. Hail Columbia. The Star Spangled Banner. Civil War Songs. Bixie. The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Maryland. Songs Since the Civil War. Cher There. Hymns. / Love Thy Kingdom, Lord. My Faith Looks up to Thee. Lord of All Being Throned Afar. One Sweetly Solemn Thought. Fling Out the Banner. Day is Dying in the West. Revivalist Hymns. . . . 492

CHAPTER XXVII

ORAL LITERATURE

By Louise Pound, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Nebraska.

Interest Attaching to Floating Literature. Definitions. Early Popular Song. Historical Songs. EngUsh and Scottish Traditional Ballads. Other Imported Songs. American Ballads. Cowboy Songs. Game and Play-Party Songs. ... ... 502

CHAPTER XXVIII

POPULAR BIBLES

By Lyman P. Powell, D.D., LL.D.

I. The Book of Mormon. Hebraic transplantation Origin. Joseph Smith. Contents. Hierarchy. Latter-Day Saints. II. Science and Health. The author. Sources of her doctrines. Influence of Quimby. Criticism and Comment. General effect. . 517

CHAPTER XXIX

BOOK PUBLISHERS AND PUBLISHING

By Earl L. Bradsher, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of English in the University of Texas.

Cambridge and Boston in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century. Dutch Books at New York. German Books at Germantown, Pennsylvania. Other Centres. Relations Between Printers and Publishers. The Revolution. The Publication of American Books in England. The Sense of Nationality in Publishing. Competition with England. Rise of Native Authors. Mechanical Improvements. Annuals. Supremacy Passes from Philadelphia to New York. Establishment of Great Publishing Houses. The Struggle for an International Copyright Law. The Rewards of Authorship. Cheap Series of Books. Distribution of Publishing in the Twentieth Century. . . . . 533