If time shall serve, I hope to prepare a separate volume, exhibiting the
stages of our literature in the Colonial period, the Revolutionary epoch,
the time of Constitutional establishment, and the present period. It will
be found to illustrate these historical divisions in a remarkable manner.

H. C.

The Lehigh University, _October_, 1872.




CONTENTS




CHAPTER I.

THE HISTORICAL SCOPE OF THE SUBJECT.

Literature and Science--English Literature--General Principle--Celts
and Cymry--Roman Conquest--Coming of the Saxons--Danish Invasions--The
Norman Conquest--Changes in Language


CHAPTER II.

LITERATURE A TEACHER OF HISTORY. CELTIC REMAINS.