lution, 4 vols., Boston, 1853; The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, 12 vols., Boston, 1829-30. For further detail, both biographical and bibliographical, see HERBERT B. ADAMS'S The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, 2 vols., Boston, 1893. Sparks's MSS. may be seen in the reading room of Harvard College Library. Prescott. PRESCOTT'S History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, 3 vols., appeared at Boston in 1838; his History of the Conquest of Mexico, etc., in 3 vols., at New York in 1843; his Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, at New York in 1845; the History of the Conquest of Peru, etc., 2 vols., New York, 1847; and the History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, 3 vols., Boston, 1855-58. The best biography of Prescott is GEORGE TICKNOR's Life of William Hickling Prescott, Boston, 1864. MOTLEY'S Merry-Mount; A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, 2 vols., appeared at Boston and Cambridge, in 1849; The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History, 3 vols., New York, 1856; Motley. History of the United Netherlands, etc., 4 vols., New in 10 GEORGE BANCROFT's A History of the United States, etc., vols., was published at Boston and London, 1834-74; Bancroft. "The Author's Last Revision," in 6 vols., was published at New York, 1883-85. RICHARD HILDRETH's The History of the United States of America was published, in 6 vols., at New York, 1851-56. PALFREY'S History of New England, in 5 vols., Boston, 1858-90. Palfrey died in 1881; the fifth volume was edited by his son, F. W. Palfrey. Hildreth. Palfrey. FRANCIS PARKMAN's works, of which he personally retained the copyright, are published, in various editions, by Little, Brown & Co., of Boston. For accounts of Parkman's life and estimates Parkman. of his work, see JOHN FISKE'S A Century of Science and Other Essays, Boston, 1899; and Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings for 1893, 2d series, Vol. VIII. pp. 349-369. The authorized biography of Parkman, by C. H. Farnham, has just been published in Boston. UNITARIANISM Book V. Chapter IV. On Unitarianism in general, see the article by Dr. Andrew P. Peabody in WINSOR'S Memorial History of Boston, Vol. III. Chap. XI. CHANNING'S Works may be found in a convenient one-volume edition published at Boston in 1886. For his life, see WILLIAM H. CHANNING's Memoirs of William Ellery Channing, 3 vols., Boston, 1848, also published in one volume called the "Century Memorial Edition," at Boston in 1880. The biography of George Ripley has been written by O. B. Frothingham for the series of American Men of Letters, Boston, 1882. TRANSCENDENTALISM On Transcendentalism in general one should consult O. B. FROTHTranscen- INGHAM's Transcendentalism in New England: A History, dentalism. New York, 1876; and, if possible, The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, 4 vols., Boston, 1840-44. The life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli has been written by Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson for the series of American Men of Letters, Boston, 1884. Margaret Of several books on Brook Farm, the best is Mr. LINDSAY SWIFT'S Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York, 1900. Brook Farm. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Book V. Chapter VI. The standard edition of Emerson's works is the Riverside, in 12 vols. See also the two volumes of Carlyle-Emerson letters, edited by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton. The standard biography of Emerson is the Memoir, in two volumes, by JAMES ELLIOT CABOT, Boston, 1887. HOLMES's Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston, 1884, in the American Men of Letters series, is valuable. GARNETT's Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, London, 1888, in the Great Writers series, has a considerable bibliography. Important critical estimates of Emerson are Matthew Arnold's Emerson, in his Discourses in America; Lowell's Emerson the Lecturer, in his Works, Riverside edition, Vol. I. pp. 349 ff.; and John Jay Chapman's Emerson, Sixty Years After, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly for January and February, 1897, and since reprinted in Emerson and Other Essays, New York, 1898. THE LESSER MEN OF CONCORD Bronson Alcott's chief works, with their dates of publication, are : Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction, 1830; The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture, 1836; Conversations with Children on the Gospels, 2 vols., 1836-37; Tablets, 1868; Concord Days, 1872; Table Talk, 1877; New Connecticut. An Autobiographical Poem, 1881; Sonnets and Canzonets, 1882; Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Estimate of his Character and Genius, etc., 1882. There is a Memoir of Alcott, in 2 vols., by Messrs. F. B. SANBORN and WILLIAM T. HARRIS, Boston, 1893. Thoreau. The standard collection of Thoreau's works is the Riverside edition, in 10 vols., published at Boston. With Mr. F. B. SANBORN'S Henry David Thoreau, Boston, 1882, and EMERSON'S Thoreau, in the Riverside edition of his works, Vol. X. PP. 421-452, compare LowELL's Thoreau, in his Works, Riverside edition, Vol. I. pp. 361 ff. See also STEVENSON's essay on Thoreau, in his Familiar Studies in Men and Books (Works, Thistle edition, Vol. XIV. pp. 116-149). Mr. H. S. SALT's Life of Thoreau, London, 1896, contains a bibliography. Theodore Parker's collected works, in 14 vols., were published at London, 1863-65; his Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons were published in 2 vols., Boston, 1852. For the life of Parker, see JOHN WEISS: Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, 2 vols., New York, 1864, and O. B. FROTHINGHAM'S Theodore Parker: a Biography, Boston, 1874.. THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT Book V. Chapter VIII. Parker. On the Abolition movement in general, see WINSOR'S Memoria. History of Boston, Vol. III. Chap. VI., and Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Contemporaries, Boston, 1899; for bibliographic notes on the subject, consult Channing and Hart's Guide, § 187 ff. Selections from Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison Garrison. were published at Boston, in 1852. The best biography of Garrison is that by Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, 4 vols., New York, 1885-89. Sumner. Charles Sumner's works, in 15 vols., were published at Boston in 1874-83. The most complete biography is EDWARD L. PIERCE'S Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 4 vols., Boston, 1879-93; a shorter book is MR. MOORFIELD STOREY'S Charles Sumner, Boston, 1900, in the American Statesmen series. On the Sumner-Brooks affair, see J. F. RHODES'S History of the United States, Vol. II. Chap. VII. The standard collections of Mrs. Stowe's writings is the lately published Riverside edition in 16 vols. Mrs. J. T. Fields has written The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Boston, 1897. Mrs. Stowe. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Book V. Chapter IX. The standard collection of Whittier's writings is the Riverside edition in 7 vols. The best biography is SAMUEL T. PICKARD'S Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, 2 vols., Boston, 1894. WILLIAM J. LINTON's Life of Whittier (London, 1893, in the Great Writers series) contains a bibliography. For a more extended expression of the views set forth in this chapter, see B. WENDELL: Stelligeri, New York, 1893, pp. 149-201. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY' Book V. Chapter X. One gets an interesting impression of the general temper of the early Atlantic Monthly" by glancing over The Atlantic Index, 1857-88, published at Boston in 1889. The writings of James T. Fields are chiefly: Poems, 1849; Yesterdays with Authors, 1872; Hawthorne, 1876; Old Acquaintance. Barry Cornwall and Some of his Friends, 1876; In and Out of Doors with Charles Dickens, 1876; Underbrush, 1877; Ballads and Other Verses, 1881. Fields. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow Book V. Chapter XI. The standard collection of Longfellow's works is the Riverside edition in II vols. Samuel Longfellow's Life, etc., 3 vols., Boston, 1891, includes all the materials in the Life of 1886 and in the Final Memorials of 1887. Eric S. Robertson's Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London, 1887, in the Great Writers series, has a bibliography. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Book V. Chapter XII. Lowell's works are collected in the Riverside edition, 11 vols., Boston. See also the Last Poems, edited by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton. Lowell's Letters, also edited by Professor Norton, were published in 2 vols., at New York, 1894. For the facts of Lowell's life see the memoir by A. Lawrence Lowell, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 2d series, Vol. XI. pp. 75 ff., and Dr. Edward Everett Hale's James Russell Lowell and bis Friends, Boston, 1899. Mr. Horace E. Scudder is preparing a biography of Lowell for the American Men of Letters series. For a sketch of Lowell as a teacher, see B. WENDELL: Stelligeri, pp. 205-217. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Book V. Chapter XIII. The standard collection of the writings of Dr. Holmes is the Riverside edition in 14 vols.; the best biography is that by Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., the Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2 vols., Boston, 1896. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE'S works are collected in the Riverside edition, 12 vols., Boston. Perhaps the most notable biographies are JULIAN HAWTHORNE'S Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, 2 vols., Boston, 1885, and Mr. HENRY JAMES'S Hawthorne, London, 1879, in the English Men of Letters series. |