The American orator : comprising a collection, principally from American authors, of the most admired specimens of congressional, forensic, pulpit and popular eloquence, with dialogues and poetical extracts, adapted to public recitation : and an introduction, embracing the principle rules relating to delivery and action /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Boston Academy's Collection of church music : consisting of the most popular psalm and hymn tunes, anthems, sentences, chants, &c., old and new : together with many beautiful pieces, tunes and anthems, selected from the masses and other works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven ... and other distinguished composers, arranged and adapted to English words expressly for this work, including, also, original compositions by German, English and American authors.

Includes indexes.

The American common-place book of prose : a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors.

Includes index of authors.

The American teacher's lessons of instruction, being a compilation of select speeches and readings from the most eminent American authors; with an appendix comprising a synopsis of the geography of the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Richardsiana; or Hits at the style of popular American authors.

"Contains some amusing 'hits at the style' of Hon. D. W[ebster], H.W. L[ongfellow], N.P. W[illis], W. I[rving], G.P. M[orris] ... etc., etc. 'Boss Richards' was the proprietor of a celebrated shoe store in Canal street." -- Sabin, Bibl. Amer.

The American common-place book of prose; a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors /

Mode of access: Internet.

Literary shrines; the haunts of some famous American authors,

Mode of access: Internet.

Favorite poems from English and American authors,

Mode of access: Internet.

My maiden effort; being the personal confessions of well-known American authors as to their literary beginnings,

"Mary Austin": p. 12-16.

A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors : living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century; containing over forty-six thousand articles (authors), with forty indexes of subject /

Mode of access: Internet.

A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Paged continuously.

A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety three thousand titles.

Paged continuously.

Poetical selections from the best English and American authors, designed as exercises in parsing, for the use of academies and common schools;

Mode of access: Internet.

Famous American authors /

Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Washington Irving -- William Hicklin Prescott -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Richard Henry Stoddard -- Edmund Clarence Stedman -- William Dean Howells -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Richard Watson Gilder -- Will Carleton -- George W. Cable -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Charles Dudley Warner.