ROUTLEDGE'S POCKET LIBRARY IN MONTHLY VOLUMES. "A series of beautiful little books, tastefully bound."-Times. Beautifully printed and tastefully bound."-Saturday Review. "Deserves warm praise for the taste shown in its production. The 'Library' ought to be very popular."-Athenæum. 1. BRET HARTE'S POEMS. 2. THACKERAY'S PARIS SKETCH BOOK. 3. HOOD'S COMIC POEMS. 4. DICKENS'S CHRISTMAS CAROL. 5. POEMS BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 6. WASHINGTON IRVING'S SKETCH BOOK. 7. MACAULAY'S LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. 8. GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. 9. HOOD'S SERIOUS POEMS. 10. LORD LYTTON'S COMING RACE. 11. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 12. MANON LESCAUT. 13. LONGFELLOW'S SONG OF HIAWATHA. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. THIS Indian Edda-if I may so call it-is founded on a tradition prevalent among the North American Indians, of a personage of miraculous birth, who was sent among them to clear their rivers, forests, and fishing-grounds, and to teach them the arts of peace. He was known among different tribes by the several names of Michabou, Chiabo, Manabozo, Tarenyawagon, and Hiawatha. Mr. Schoolcraft gives an account of him in his Algic Researches, Vol. I. p. 134; and in his History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Part III. p. 314, may be found the Iroquois form of the tradition, derived from the verbal narrations of an Onondaga chief. Into this old tradition I have woven other curious Indian legends, drawn chiefly from the various and valuable writings of Mr. Schoolcraft, to whom the literary world is greatly indebted for his indefatigable zeal in rescuing from oblivion so much of the legendary lore of the Indians. The scene of the poem is among the Ojibways on the southern shore of Lake Superior, in the region between the Pictured Rocks and the Grand Sable. 3.6.12, 1914-val.195€ |