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 CHAPTER XXX

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN AMERICA

By Harry Morgan Ayres, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in Columbia University, Associate Editor of The Weekly Review.

The Attitude of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Importance of Variety in Language. The History of English. The Dialect of London and Its Relation to Other English Dialects. The English of the Colonists. Developments. Conservatisms and Radicalisms. American Pronunciation. American Spelling. The Influence of the Spelling Book. The Need of American Attention to American Traditions in Speech and Usage. Sectional peculiarities of Speech in the United States. The mericanization of English. Modern American Tendencies. . . . .- 554

CHAPTER XXXI

NON-ENGLISH WRITINGS I GERMAN, FRENCH, YIDDISH

1. German

By, Ph.D., Professor of German in Cornell University.

Periods of German Writing in the United States. Colonial Germans. Francis Daniel Pastorius. John Kelpius. Ephrata. Christopher Saur. Eighteenth Century Newspapers. Reports of Lutheran Ministers. Political Refugees of the Nineteenth Century. German Travellers in the United States. German Romances Dealing with America. Charles Sealsfield. Friedrich Gerstäcker. Triedrich Strubberg. German Lyrics. German Translations of American. Authors. Robert Reitzel. Dialect Literature. Pennsylvania German. Henry Harbaugh. Scholarly Work by Germans in the United States. Karl Pollen. Francis Lieber. Hermann von Hoist. The German Theatre. New York. Milwaukee. Other Cities.

2. French

By the late, Assistant Professor of French in Columbia University.

The Beginnings of Louisiana. Literature before 1812. The Drama. Placide Canonge. The Novel. Charles Testut. Alfred Mercier. Poetry. Dominique Rouquette. Alexandre Latil. Writers Using English. Charles Eitienne Arthur Gayarré. Alcée Fortier. L'Athenée Louisianais.

3. Yiddish

By.

Judaeo-German. The Yiddish Vernacular in America. Yiddish Journalism. The Jewish Daily Forward. Yiddish Songs. Morris Rosenfeld. Morris Winchevsky. S. Blumgarten (Yehoush). The Young Yiddish