Thoughts on the works of providence 567
To S. M., a young African painter, on seeing his works 570
To his excellency general Washington 571
Philip Freneau (1752-1832) 572
On the emigration to America 574
To sir Toby 576
The wild honey suckle 577
The Indian Burying ground 578
On Mr. Paine's rights of man 579
To an author 581
On the religion of nature 582
On observing a large red-streak apple 583
Joel Barlow (1754-1812) 584
The hasty pudding 586
Advice to a raven in Russia 596
LATE 18TH-CENTURY DRAMA 598
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) 603
from The group 604
Royall Tyler (1757-1814) 611
The contrast 614
LATE 18TH-CENTURY FCITION 653
Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) 659
from ,odern Chivalry: 661
Book I: from Chapter I 661
Chapter III 661
Book II: Chapter I 665
Book III: Chapter I 668
Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824) 670
from Charlotte Temple: 672
Preface 672
from Chapter VII: Natural sense of Propriety in the female Bosom 673
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) 675
from The coquette: 676
Letter IX: To miss Lucy Freeman 676