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DIDLIOGRAPHY. J. Withersr D.D., essay in The Druid, Volume IV. ( Ph ila delph , 1801 ) ; J. Pickering, Vocabulary of Words and Phrases Snpposcd to be Peculiar to America (Boston, 1816) ; J. Ii, Lowell, introduction to the Biglow Papers (Cambridge, 1S45); A. L. Elwyn, Glos sary of Supposed Americanisms (New York. 1858) ; J. R. Bartlett, Dictionary of American isms (Philadelphia, 1859) ; de Vere, A merieanistns (New York, 1872) ; Norton, Poli tical Americanisms (London, 1890) ; Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and ('ant (London, 18S7) ; G. Gibbsrnictionary of the Chinook Jargon (Washington, 1863) ; Leland, Hans Breittnann's Ballads (Philadelphia, 1870) ; Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (New York, 1880 ) , and Nights With l'ncle Remus (New York, 1883) ; C. White, "Americanisms," At ?antic Monthly,VolumesXL1.-XLV.; T. R. Louns bury, "The English Language in America," In ternational Review, Volume VIII.; G. M. Tucker,

"American English," North, American Review, Volume CXXXV1.; W. W. Crane, "TheAmerican Language." Putnam's Magazine, Volume XVI.; Rev. H. Reeves, "Our Provincialisms." Lippin cott's Magazine, Volume III.; T. W. Higginson, "American Flash Language in 1708," Science, Nay, 1835; "Southwestern Slang," Overland Monthly, August, 1369; Brander Matthews, "Briticisms and Americanisms," Harper's Maga zine. July, 1891. See also Dialect Notes, pub lished by the American Dialect Society since 1889. The same society has issued a list of American slang words, edited by E. H. Babbitt. Studies of several Southern dialects, by Calvin S. Brown and Sylvester Primer, have appeared in the Publications of the Modern Language Association.