Precocity in literature, 197, 360.
Prescott, William Hickling, 268–271;
267, 272, 275, 280, 371, 438; his
Life of Brockden Brown, 159, 160.
Present Time, the, 514-518.
Prince, Thomas, his “ Annals,” 263.
Princeton College, 79, 83, 85, 130.
Printing-presses in America about
1800, 157.

Prohibition in America, 103, 506.
Property, Right of, 340, 344, 345, 346,
356.

Prose, in the Evolution of Litera-
ture, 5, 167; in America, 44-52,
78-82, 84-89, 94–101, 162–164, 172–
176, 191, 206-214, 216, 222-223,
226, 230, 246-276, 312-314, 320-
324, 335-336, 353-355, 404-405,
417-420, 422, 425-435, 459–461,
466, 483, 488, 507-513, 514-518,
528; in England, 5, 22-25, 37, 53,
65, 66, 146-148, 154, 174, 184, 201,
206, 526, 527, 528.

Protestantism, 70. See Liberalism.
Public Speaking, Popularity of, in

New England, 246-249, 255, 317.
"Puck," 453, 461.

Puritanism, in England, 14, 20, 24,
25, 29, 31, 33, 107, 517, 523; in New
England, 28-31, 33, 38, 42, 44, 46,
48, 50, 52, 55, 70, 74, 75, 95, 102,
120, 163, 184, 294, 296, 299, 309,
310, 371-372, 416, 423, 429, 430,
432-433, 434, 446, 469, 523, 524,
525, 529. See Calvinism.
Purity of Temper, Instinctive in
America, 189, 217, 218, 276, 307,
310, 327, 405, 424, 434, 445-446, 517.

UAKERISM in America, 75, 80-
81, 299, 341, 358, 365, 367, 455,

465.
"Quality" in New England. See
Aristocracy.

"Quarterly Review," 192, 262.
Quebec, 73; Battle of, 60, 61, 62, 74.

RADCLIFFE, Mrs., 67; her
"Mysteries of Udolpho," 68,
160, 161, 163.
Railways, transcontinental, 152, 440;
in New England, 244, 440.
Ralegh, Sir Walter, 4, 18, 21, 22, 24,
27, 32, 37, 131.
Rationalism in New England, 417–
420.

Raymond, Henry Jarvis, 455.
Refinement in American writings,
180, 203, 218, 228.

Reform Bill of 1832, 107, 140-141,
145, 146, 148, 198, 220, 290, 525,
526.
Reformers in New England, 229, 245,
300, 303, 304-305, 338, 339-340,
359, 371, 372, 398, 416, 441, 528.
See Antislavery Movement, Brook
Farm.

Regency, of George IV., 139, 147.
Relaxation of Social Pressure in

America, 33, 53, 89, 102, 501. See
Density, Inexperience.
Religion in New England. See Cal-

vinism, Puritanism, Unitarianism.
Religion and Life, in America, 90,

95-100, 102-103.

Religious literature in America. See
Theological.

Renaissance, of Europe, 17, 178, 245,
259, 297, 394.

Renaissance of New England, the,

233-446; 154, 206, 245, 258-259,
303, 372, 429-430, 469, 514, 528-
530.
Representation, conflicting theories
of, 107, 116.

Restoration, the, 13, 21, 24, 29, 31,
523.

Retardation of Development in
America, 32, 123, 126, 130, 151,
174, 201, 275-276, 357, 416, 446,
483, 484, 489, 522-529. See Den-
sity, Inexperience.

Reversion, Social, in America, 504.
Revolution, the American, 104-116;

63, 67, 71, 73, 75, 76, 79, 81, 103,
117, 121, 130, 134, 152, 160, 169,
172, 175, 180, 185, 204, 240-242,
247, 253, 258, 260, 268, 346, 382,
437, 481, 484, 485, 524-525.
Revolution, the Constitutional, in
England, 140, 144, 148. See Re-
form Bill.

Revolution, the French, 61, 63, 115-
116, 140, 310, 345, 467, 471; its
abstract philosophy, 63-64, 109,
467; its rationalism, 66, 161, 417,
423. See Revolutionary Spirit.
Revolution of 1688, the, 13, 21, 29,
523.

Revolutionary Spirit, its view of
Human Nature, 102, 145-146, 186,
300, 332, 339, 443, 467, 500, 528-
529; its contrasting manifestations,
in England and France, 68, 145;
in Europe and America, 290-293,
310. See Transcendentalism, Uni-
tarianism.

Rhetoric in New England, 248, 253-

257, 259, 270, 404.
Rhodes, James Ford, his "History

of the United States," 351.
Richardson, Samuel, 66, 68, 160.
Richmond, Virginia, 204, 205, 341.
Right and Rights, English and

American Ideal of, 8, 14, 64, 115-
116, 467, 521, 524, 525, 529; Di-
vergence of, see Disunion,
American Revolution; French
ideal of, 63, 109-110; see Revolu-
tionary spirit.

Ripley, George, 229, 286, 302, 303,
305, 308, 455.

Roe, Edward Payson, 461.
Rogers, Samuel, 67, 69.
Romanticism, 431-432; in America,
162-163, 174-175, 177, 179, 195,

200, 203, 310, 334, 384-387, 390-
391, 416-417, 432-434, 488-489,
496, 498, 529; in England, 145-
146, 160-161, 174, 526, 527, 529.
Ross, David Locke, 512.
Rumford, Count, 261.

Ruskin, John, 147, 431, 526, 528.
Ryland's "Chronological Outlines
of English Literature," 20., 22,
35 n., 60.

ST. LOUIS, 73, 233, 451.

Salem, 244, 251, 425, 426, 429.
See Witchcraft.

San Domingo, Insurrection in, 345,
482.

Sandys, George, his translation of
Ovid, 27, 36, 484.

San Francisco, 233, 451.
Satire in America, 90-91, 101, 113,

119, 122-126, 130, 193, 196, 400-
403, 411, 420-421, 459, 508, 512-
513.

Saturday Club of Boston, 376-377,
437-439, 444.

Scholarship in New England, 245,

260-276, 277, 290, 291, 295, 326,
338, 347, 371, 393-397, 443, 528.
Science, English, 25, 148; in Amer-

ica, see Cotton Mather, Franklin.
Scott, Sir Walter, 67, 134, 145, 146,

147, 148, 183, 184, 185, 189, 190,
191, 192, 193, 198, 220, 230, 290,
481, 488, 529; his " Waverley Nov-
els," 146, 154, 174, 184, 526; his
"Lady of the Lake," 389.
"Scribner's Magazine," 453, 454,
459.

"Scriptures" in New England, 303,
314, 318, 331, 372, 445.
Sea, American Books about the.
See Cooper, Dana, Melville.
Seabury, Samuel, 110, 111.
Secession, 105, 255. See Civil War

in America, Disunion.
Second Church of Boston, 44, 71,
288, 311-313, 326.
Sedgmoor, Battle of, 59.

Sentimentality in Literature, 200-
201. See Romanticism.
Sewall, Samuel, 31, 32, 33, 246, 341;

his Diary, 234, 236, 263.
Seward, William Henry, 222.
Shakspere, 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26,

27, 32, 37, 41, 42, 50, 55, 65, 68, 69,
136, 184, 217, 248, 253, 302, 315,
445, 458, 469, 523.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 146, 147,
160, 161, 165, 174, 193, 291, 526,
527.

Shepard, Thomas, 52.

Short Stories as a Form of Litera-

ture, 168, 174, 176-177, 191, 211–
214, 226, 237, 430-434, 461, 477,
486, 506, 515-518. See Fiction.
Sibley, John Langdon, his" Harvard
Graduates," 47.

Sidney, Sir Philip, 26.

Simms, William Gilmore, 480, 486,
487-489, 491, 492.

Slavery, Negro, 151, 340-346, 482.
See Antislavery Movement.
Smith, Captain John, 35, 484.
Smith Professorship at Harvard
College, 264-265, 266, 296, 379-
381, 393, 406. See Longfellow, J.
R. Lowell, George Ticknor.
Smollett, Tobias, 66, 68.
Socialism in New England. See
Brook Farm.

Social Relations of American Men
of Letters, Abroad, 170, 225, 264,
350, 396; at Home, 181, 188, 206,
228, 338, 376, 408-410, 465, 511-
512. See Distinction.

Society, Structure of American, in
New England, 71-73, 75, 92-94,
193, 224, 234-244, 248, 258, 266,
288, 326, 371, 378, 410, 436-441,
481; in the South, 206, 481-483,
487-488.

South, the, 151, 152, 341, 356-357,
480-499, 504, 513, 514. See North
and South.

South Carolina, 234, 351, 489; Nul-
lification in, 198, 487, 491. See
Charleston.

Spenser, 4, 5, 26, 27.

Spontaneity. See National Traits.
"Springfield Republican," the, 459.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, his
"Poets of America," 385, 415,
416, 417.
Stedman and Hutchinson's "Library
of American Literature," 35 n.,
123, 157, 195, 208, 220, 341, 460,
461, 481, 492, 508.

Stedman and Woodberry's edition
of Poe, 207, 208, 212.
Steele, Sir Richard, 65, 167.
Stelligeri, 414 n.
Stephens, Alexander
483-484.

Hamilton,

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 147, 176,
229, 527.

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 222.
Stoddard, Solomon, 83, 86.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 352-356 ;
366, 371; her " Old Town Folks,"
237; her "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
388.

Struggle for existence, 16, 17, 18, 33,
53.

Stuart, Gilbert, 64, 241-243, 248,
345.

Style, Literary, in America, 38, 41,

53, 95, 101, 162, 166, 173, 175, 177,
183, 193, 197, 199, 201, 211, 216,
226, 250-253, 257, 267, 269–270,
272, 274, 276, 323-324, 335-336,
354, 363, 390, 397, 404, 428, 459,
471, 473-478, 492, 495, 498, 507.
See Dialect, Extracts.
Sumner, Charles, 170, 258, 348, 350-
351, 352, 371, 387, 438, 483.

Surrey, Earl of, 38.

Survival of the fittest, 17.

Swift, Jonathan, 65, 112, 136, 172.

"TATLER," the, 66, 79, 118.
"Taxation without Represen-
tation," 107.

Taylor, Bayard, 222, 229, 455-458.
Taylor, Father, 373.
Taylor, Jeremy, 20, 23.

Teaching, Professional, by Men of
Letters, 380, 395, 397. See Long-
fellow, Lowell, Ticknor.
Temple, Sir William, 25, 40.
Tennyson, 147, 209, 526, 528.
Thackeray, William Makepeace,
147, 176, 206, 415, 526, 528.
Theocracy, in England, 17; in New
England, 42, 44-46, 48, 70, 83, 95,
235. See Calvinism, Puritanism.
Theological literature in America,

36, 41, 43, 78, 80, 83-91, 110, 119,
121, 122, 123, 136, 180, 190, 209,
228, 246, 247, 263, 274, 292, 325,
437, 523, 525; in England, 37,
119.

Thoreau, Henry David, 332-337 ;
302, 328, 338, 339, 371, 376, 398,
489.

Ticknor, Francis Orrery, 489-490,
499.

Ticknor, George, 264-267; 170, 268,
270, 271, 280, 296, 371, 379-381,
393, 395, 406, 418, 437.
Timrod, Henry, 486, 491, 492-495,
497, 499.

Town Histories in New England,
264.

Tories, see Loyalists.
Trafalgar, Battle of, 62, 139.
Transcendentalism in New England,

290-310; 245, 311, 324, 330, 333,
338-340, 346, 347, 359, 37, 372,
379, 384 386, 416, 418, 429, 432,
441, 485, 528. See Revolutionary
Spirit.

Translations of American books,
183, 207.

Translations in Elizabethan litera-
ture, 5, 20, 22, 27, 484; in Ameri
ca, 198, 391, 456, 458.
Trent, W. P., 480, 487-488, 491.
"Tribune," the New York, 229,
230, 300, 308, 309, 449, 454-455,
456.
Trollope, Anthony, 176.
Trollope, Mrs., 502, 503.
Trumbull, John, 123-126; 120, 129.
Tudor, William, 262.

Twain, Mark, 101, 173, 271, 508, 513;
his "Huckleberry Finn," 342, 477,
503.

44

Tyler, Moses Coit, 35 m., 40; his
'Literary History of the Ameri-
can Revolution," 104, 107, 112,
134, 485.

UNION, the ideal of, 105, 151,

345.
Unitarianism in New England, 277-
289; 90, 122, 224, 245, 267, 273,
290, 291, 292, 295, 299, 303, 304,
308, 309, 311, 314, 326, 338, 341,
342, 346, 347,353, 359, 371, 372,
379, 384, 393, 407-409, 418-419,
422, 441-442, 443, 528. See Re-
volutionary Spirit.

United States, 6, 7, 29, 127, 149-153,
169. See Constitution, Law.
Universities, the Office of, 383.
University of Pennsylvania, 79, 93-

Cobbler of Agawam," 508.

Ware, Henry, 282.

Ware, Henry, Jr., 311.
Warren, Joseph, 247, 260.
Washington, George, 64, 76, 92, 117,
120, 151, 268, 357, 485; Weems's
Life of, 159.

Washington, City of, 233, 451, 466.
Waterloo, Battle of, 61, 140, 145, 146,
525-526.

Wealth in New England, 71-73, 242,
248-249, 378, 440; in New York,
463; in the West, 441.

Webster, Daniel, 247-253, 255, 257,
280, 291, 354, 371, 437, 439, 485,
491; Whittier's poems on, 367-369.
Welde, Thomas, 37.

Wesley, John, 66, 74.

West, the, 500-513; 30, 152, 441, 514.
West Church of Boston, 442.

West Point Military Academy, 205.
Whigs of Massachusetts, 249, 255,
257.

Whipple, Edwin Percy, 438.

Whitcomb's "Chronological Out-
lines of American Literature," 35,
36, 78, 461.

White, Richard Grant, 458-459.
Whitefield, George, 74, 75, 97-99.
Whitman, Walt, 464, 465-479.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 358-369,
388-389; 197, 237, 371, 376, 425,
426, 430, 438, 460, 465, 481, 489,
493, 495, 509, 528.

Williams College, 193, 461.
Williams, Roger, 27, 32, 50, 77.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 222-230;
207, 208, 280, 288, 449.
Wills, George Stockton, 480.
Winslow, Edward, 26, 32.

Winsor, Justin, his "Memorial His-
tory of Boston," 287.

Winthrop, John, 26, 31, 32, 50, 77,
357; his History, 31, 263.
Winthrop, Professor John, 261.
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 258, 280,
439.

Wirt, William, 485.
Wister, Owen, 504.

Witchcraft at Salem, 33, 45-46.
Woodworth, Samuel, 195.
Woolman, John, 80-81, 299.
Wordsworth, William, 67, 69, 145,
146, 162, 174, 201, 228, 291, 399,
526, 527.

World's Fair of 1893, 505-506.

YALE COLLEGE, 75, 78, 79, 83,

120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 129,
181, 224, 225, 352, 407, 486.
Yellow Fever in New York, 163–164.
"Youth's Companion," the, 224.