729 pp. This new edition adds an article on Spanish literature that first appeared in the January 1850 issue of North American Review. Includes: Charles Brockden Brown, the American Novelist; Asylum for the Blind; Irving's Conquest of Granada; Cervantes; Sir Walter Scott; Chateaubriand's English Literature; Bancroft's United States; Madame Calderon's Life in Mexico; Moliere; Italian Narrative Poetry; Poetry and Romance for the Italians; Scottish Song; Da Ponte's Observations; Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature.