American Lands and Letters

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Excerpt from American Lands and Letters: The Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle As I became interested in the subject-matter of this volume, there grew upon me a fear that it would run to inordinate length - except some bounds were fixed, hence, no writer is dwelt upon whose birth-date belongs in the present century. This limit shuts off a distinguished group of authors - born in the first decade of this century - whose names come to the thought of all intent upon American literary work. The critics will say, with the justice always distin guishing them - the book should have been longer and covered more names, or, shorter and dealt with fewer writers, or - in some way, should have been - quite other than it is. In deed, upon a reading of the proofs I have unwittingly drifted into agreement with such possible damnatory phrases, and have, again and again, under the imagined critical guid ance, inclined to the confession that I have left undone those things which I ought to have done, and have done those things which I ought not to have done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.