The editor of this 1898 anthology asserts that prose is the natural form of American expression. He proves his thesis with a collection of classic writings by Cotton Mather, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more—with commentary by George Santayana, William Dean Howells, among others.

The editor of this 1898 anthology asserts that prose is the natural form of American expression. He proves his thesis with a collection of classic writings by Cotton Mather, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more—with commentary by George Santayana, William Dean Howells, among others.

The editor of this 1898 anthology asserts that prose is the natural form of American expression. He proves his thesis with a collection of classic writings by Cotton Mather, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more—with commentary by George Santayana, William Dean Howells, among others.