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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ia, 1794). Works on agronomy now multiplied. The field had up to that time largely been occupied by the two-volume work on American Husbandry. By an American (1775). Now there appeared in rapid succession Samuel Deane's The New England farmer (Worcester, 1790); the Sketches on Rotations of crops (Philadelphia, 1792); John Spurrier's The practical Farmer (Wilmington, 1793); and J. B. Bordley's Essays and notes on Husbandry (Philadelphia, 1799). This period also witnessed the beginnings of statith Webster and his adherents. Apart from irrelevant personalities, the controversy is reducible to one between a retiring and conservative scholar, willing to record the actualities of usage, and a brisk business man and linguistic reformer. Worcester's large Dictionary of the English language (1860) for a few years rivalled the Pictorial Webster of 1859, especially in England and in New England; but after the Unabridged of 1864 it lost popularity and authority. For the beginnings of Old
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
aries of Moravian missionaries, 577 Diary (Sutter), 140 Diary (Welles), 351 Diary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet, 164 Diary of one of the Donner Party, The, 146 Diary of the March with Kearny, a, 143 Dickens, 6, 60, 70, 77, 100, 268, 269, 308, 406 Dickens in camp, 53 Dickinson, Edward, 32 Dickinson, Emily, 31, 32-34, 56 Dickinson, R., 432 Dictionary (Webster), 446, 470, 475-78 Dictionary of Philosophy, 243 n. Dictionary of the English language (Worcester), 478 Didot, 543 Die alt Niche, 585 Die Amerikaner, 586 Die Familie Neville, 581 Die Flusspiraten des Mississippi, 580 Die Geschwister, 582 Die Regulatoren von Arkansas, 580 Die schone Galatee, 588 Die sweat shop, 602 Dietzsch, 583 Diman, Lewis, 210 Dime novel in American life, the, 66 n. Dinsmore, Frances, 616, 617 n. Diogenes, 148 Disappointment, or the force of credulity, 493 Discourse concerning paper money, a, 426 Discourse concerning the Cur