Includes bibliographical references.

American studies in higher education, by H. M. Jones.--Seventeenth-century prologue, by O. E. Winslow.--Thomas Prince, minister, by T. Hornberger.--Form and substance in Franklin's autobiography, by A. O. Aldridge.--Washington Irving: amateur or professional? by H. A. Pochmann.--"The city in the sea" revisited by W. O. C. Poe.--The morals of power, by H. N. Smith.--Mrs. Stowe's characters-in-situations and a southern literary tradition, by R. B. Davis.--Uncle Tom's cabin in Italy, by J. Woodress.--Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, by E. H. Cady.--Parkman red fate, and white civilization, by R. B. Nye.--Person, place, and thing in James's The Portrait of a lady, by C. R. Anderson.--Lanier as poet, by E. W. Parks.--Lafcadio Hearn, "one of our Southern writers," by L. Leary.--Kate Chopin's The Awakening in the perspective of her literary career, by G. Arms.--O. Henry as a regional artist, by E. H. Long.--Edwin Arlington Robinson in perspective, by F. Stovall.--Ideas and action in Jack London's fiction, by F. Walker.--Vachel Lindsay: an appraisal, by J. T. Flanagan.--Williams's Paterson and the measure of art, by B. I. Duffey.--Dashiell Hammett: themes and techniques, by W. Blair.--The Bridge of Thornton Wilder, by A. Cowie.--The influence of space on the American imagination, by G. W. Allen.--Jay Broadus Hubbell, vita, compiled by R. M. Atchison.