Abolitionists, 260.

Afloat and Ashore, 71, 88.

Aftermath, 226, 245.

Arnold, Benedict, Irving's treatment
of, 29.

Arnold, Matthew, 232.

Allegiance, treaty with Germany con-
cerning, 107.

American Anti-Slavery Society in New
York, Whittier secretary of, 260.
American Democrat, The, 70, 94.
American Lands and Letters, 449.
American Loyalists, Irving's attitude
towards, 30; in Westchester County,
N. Y., 75.

American Note-Books of Nathaniel

Hawthorne, 292, 315.
'American Scholar, The,' Emerson's
Phi Beta Kappa oration, 152, 162.
Among My Books, 458, 475, 476.
Among the Hills, 263, 280.
Amory, Susan, wife of William Hick-
ling Prescott, 125.

'Analectic Magazine,' conducted by
Irving, 6.

André, Major John, Irving's treat-
ment of, 29.
Anti-slavery movement, Whittier's
connection with, 259, 273-277;
Thoreau's, 331; Curtis's, 420, 421;
Lowell's, 456, 466, 479.
Anti-Slavery Papers, Lowell's, 459,

479.

Appleton, Frances, wife of Longfellow,
225, 226.

Archæological Institute of America,
383.

terprise in the Northwest, the sub-
ject of Astoria, 28.

At Sundown, 263, 282.

Atlantic Monthly,' founding of, and
Whittier's contributions to, 262;
Lowell editor of, 458.

Autocrat, The, of the Breakfast-Table,
340, 345, 355.

Autumn, Thoreau's, 324, 331.

Bachiler, Stephen, 256.
Bancroft, Aaron, father of George
Bancroft, 101.

Bancroft, George: his ancestry, 101;
education and foreign travel, 102;
tutor at Harvard, 103; the Round
Hill School, 103; early works, 104;
political appointments, 105, 107;
founds United States Naval Acad-
emy, 105; brings about treaty with
Germany, 107; last years, 107;
death, 108; character, 108; criticism
of the History, 110-119.
'Barbara Frietchie,' remark of Whit-
tier concerning, 265; popularity of,
276.

Battle Summer, 440, 444.
Belfry, The, of Bruges, 225, 236.
Benjamin, Mary, wife of John Lo-
throp Motley, 360; her death,
364.

Bigelow, Catharine, wife of Francis
Parkman, 381.

Biglow Papers, The, 456, 458, 466.
Bismarck, his student life with Motley,
360.

George Bancroft, 105.
Blithedale Romance, The, 291, 309.
Bonneville, 28.

Book of the Roses, 381 (note).
Borrow, George, Emerson's know-
ledge of, 182.

Boston Lyceum, Poe's appearance be-
fore, 197, 200.
Bracebridge Hall, 7, 17.
Bravo, The, 69, 89, 96.
'Broadway Journal, The,' Poe's con-
nection with, 196.

Bronson, W. C., quoted, on Bryant,
43.

Brook Farm, Emerson's sympathy
with, 154; Hawthorne's connection
with, 289.

Brown, John, Thoreau's acquaint-
ance with, 323.

Bryant, Peter, father of William Cul-
len Bryant, 35.

Carlyle, Thomas, Emerson's meeting

with, 150; correspondence with
Emerson, 156; quotation from, ap-
plied to Whitman, 495.
Cathedral, The, 458, 470.
Cavalier and Puritan, Bancroft's com-
parison of, III.
Chainbearer, The, 71, 95-
Champlain, Samuel, 392.
Charles the Fifth, Prescott's contin-
uation of Robertson's history of,
127.

Children of the Lord's Supper, The,
231, 236.

Christus, a Mystery, 226, 245.
Civil Service reform, Curtis's work
for, 421.

Clemm, Maria, 192, 194, 198.
Clemm, Virginia, 192; her marriage
to Edgar Allan Poe, 193; her death,

197.

Cullen Bryant, 35.
Bryant, William Cullen: his ancestry,
35; early verses, 36; education, 36,
37; law practice, 37; marriage, 38;
editorial work, 38-41; political af-
filiations, 39, 40; works published,
41; travel, 42; death, 43; character.
44; quarrel with an opponent, 45;
criticism of his work, 46-62; his
translations, 58; quoted, on Coop-
er's quarrel with the Press, 70.
Burr, Aaron, Washington Irving
among counsel for defence of, 5.
Burroughs, John, 243.

'Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and
American Monthly,' Poe's connec-
tion with, 194.

Byron, George Gordon Noel, visits
American flagship, 103.

Cabot, Sebastian, passage on, from
Bancroft, 110.

Cambridge (England), University of,
confers degree on Holmes, 340; on
Lowell, 459-
Cape Cod, 324, 331.

reading Evangeline, 232; visits
America, 457-

Cogswell, Joseph G., 103.
Columbus, Irving's life of, 8, 20.
Commemoration Ode, 458, 470.
Conduct of Life, 156, 175.
Conkling, Roscoe, his attack on Cur-
tis, 423.

Conquest, The, of Granada, 8, 22.
Conquest, The, of Mexico, 127, 134.
Conquest, The, of Peru, 127, 138.
Conspiracy, The, of Pontiac, 381, 387.
Constitution of the United States, his-
tory of, by Bancroft, 108.
Cooper, James Fenimore: his ances-
try, 65; boyhood and education, 66;
enters the navy, 66; marries and
leaves the service, 67; his first books,
67; life abroad, 68; return to Amer-
ica, 69; quarrel with the Press, 69;
list of works, 70; character, 72;
style, 74; criticism of his works, 75-

97.

Cooper, William, father of James Fen-
imore Cooper, 65.

Cortés, Prescott's estimate of, 136.

Count Frontenac and New France
under Louis XIV, 382, 391, 393.
Courtship of Miles Standish, The, 226,

242.

Craigie, Mrs., her reception of Long-
fellow, 224.

Crater, The, 71, 95.

Croker, J. W., quoted, on Irving, 13.
Curtis, George William: his ancestry,
417; education, 418; at Brook
Farm and Concord, 418; foreign
travel, 418; newspaper work, 419;
the 'Easy Chair,' 419; books pub-
lished, 419, 422; orations, 420; mar-
riage, 420; political work and Civil
Service reform, 421; character, 423;
style, 424; criticism of his works,
427-435.

Curtis family, 417.

Dante, Longfellow's translation of,
226, 249.

Davis, Elisabeth, wife of George Ban-
croft, 105.

Deerslayer, The, 66, 71, 81.
Defoe, Poe compared with, 203.
De Lancey, Susan, wife of James Fen-
imore Cooper, 67; her family, 75.
'Democracy,' 480.
'Dial, The,' 153.

Dickens, Charles, dinner to, in New
York, 46; quotation from letter of,
to Longfellow, 228; greeting to, by
O. W. Holmes, 350.
Divine Tragedy, The, 226, 245.

Dwight, Sarah, wife of George Ban-
croft, 105.

Early Spring in Massachusetts, 324,
33I.

'Easy Chair' papers, 419, 422, 425,
430.
Edinburgh, University of, confers de-
gree on Holmes, 341.
El Dorado, 403.
Elsie Venner, 340, 352.
Embargo, The, 36.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: his ancestry,
147; boyhood, 148; education, 149;
ordination and withdrawal from the
ministry, 149, 150; begins lecturing,
151; settles in Concord, 151; nota→
ble addresses, 152; connection with
Transcendental movement, 152;
lecture tour in England, 154; posi-
tion on slavery, 155; list of his
works, 155; visitor to West Point
and overseer of Harvard, 156; nom-
inated for Lord Rector of Glasgow
University, 156; death, 157; char-
acter, 157; criticism of his works,
160-186; quoted, on Bancroft, 103,
109; club meetings in his library,
418; Holmes's life of, 354.
Emerson family, 147.

English Lands, Letters, and Kings,
449.
English Note-Books of Nathaniel
Hawthorne, 292, 315.
English Traits, 156, 173.

ulating effect of, on Clough, 232;
popularity of, 240.

Everett, Alexander, influential in Ir-
ving's going to Spain, 8.
Everett, Edward, 102.
Excursions, Thoreau's, 324, 330, 332.

Fable, A, for Critics, 456, 458, 468.
Fairchild, Frances, wife of William
Cullen Bryant, 38.

Familiar Letters, Thoreau's, 324, 326,

332.
Fanshawe, 288.