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THE DI L WHAT YOUNG AMERICA SHOULD READ HERE is no literature more thoroughly permeated with the spirit of sweetness and light, hopefulness and faith, than is our own American literature. It is a literature of optimism and of transcendentalism. It has faith in Divine Provi- dence, faith in humanity, faith in the great law of compensation, without which faith it is impossible for any man to work up to his highest capacity. A more healthy, manly literature has never been produced. At the same time it is com- paratively free from the subtleties and obscurities of some of the best English and continental writers of the optimistic, transcendental school. It is therefore better adapted to the intellectual and spiritual needs of the average American reader, and especially of American youth, than is any otherlliterature. One of the highest literary services which teachers and parents can perform for American youth is to inculcate a just appreciation of American authors and of American literature. I know of nothing more healthful and invigorating for our American youth than an appreciative study of Irving and Hawthorne, Bryant and VVhittier, Holmes and Longfellow, Lowell and Emerson. And, just as among Englishmen Sir Walter Scott wrote the best prose-fiction for boys and girls, so among Americans, Washington Irving has done this same service best. Every American boy and girl, in and out of school, should read Irving. And so should the older boys and girls. JAMES CHALMERS 17
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