The spirit of place.--Benjamin Franklin.--Hector St. John de Crevecoeur.--Fenimore Cooper's white novels.--Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels.--Edgar Allan Poe.--Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The scarlet letter."--Hawthorne's "Bilthedale romance."--Dana's "Two years before the mast."--Herman Melville's "Typee" and "Omoo".--Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".--Whitman.