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Powers, whose recent death was recorded in the October DIAL. He was engaged on the article almost up to the time of his sudden death, a portion of the final draft having been found on his study table, together with unfinished sheets of the first draft, from which the article has been completed.-Edr.] THE DIAL has more than once expressed its warm appreciation of the Library of American Literature; and now, on the appearance of the final volume, hearty congratulations are due the accomplished editors for the successful completion of their noble undertaking. Concerning the general character of the work our readers are already informed. Begun seven years ago, it has somewhat outgrown its original plan, while in its execution it has con * A LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Compiled and edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. In eleven volumes. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. (W. E. Dibble & Co., Chicago.) cellence. Not all the difficulties attending the compilation were foreseen at the beginning; and yet, whatever their nature or degrees, they have been met and overcome with a sure judgment and a scholarship that may be called unerring. This Library is a work of solid and sterling value. It contains though in most instances comparatively brief space is given to individual examples-the cream of our literature. Considering the plan of the work, the place it was intended to fill, and the manner in which it has been executed, it is a masterpiece of editorial achievement, which, on the lines of its inception and intention, has fully vindicated its national value and importance. The undertaking as a whole can only be fairly judged and appreciated by a consideration of the variety and quality of the material from which it has been drawn, the method of its handling, and the impartial spirit in which its selections have been made. Covering so wide a period and one so various in its characteristics, embracing qualities of such divers degrees of excellence, it has required the finest discrimination, the sanest judgment, the most unbiased estimate of literary values, to do full justice, without prejudice and without partiality, to the manifold topics presented. And here the casual reader, without critical attention and a considerable acquaintance with American literature, is liable to undervalue the importance of the achievement, and to overlook its inherent difficulties. Opinions and tastes must of course differ. Here and there one might wish that some favorite poet were more liberally represented, that some other chapter had been substituted for the one chosen; he might think it would have been fairer, in some instances, had the space allotted been differently disposed of,-that this particular name has received more prominence than it deserved, and this other less. But when everything has been candidly and dispassionately considered the great object of the undertaking, the variety of topics to be treated, the grounds on which the selections had to be made, with the many questions of what was most characteristic of the period and of most national interest-it may well excite unfeigned surprise that a work of such high superiority has been produced. We are not |