| Washington. | 48 |
| Emerson, Lincoln (each) | 41 |
| Franklin | 37 |
| Webster | 34 |
| Longfellow | 33 |
| Hawthorne | 25 |
| Jefferson | 23 |
| Grant | 22 |
| Irving | 21 |
| Clay | 19 |
| Beecher, Poe, M. F. Ossoli (each) | 16 |
| Theodore Parker, Lowell (each) | 15 |
| John Adams, Sumner (each) | 14 |
| Cooper, Greeley, Sheridan, Sherman (each) | 12 |
| Everett | 11 |
| John Brown, Channing, Farragut (each) | 10 |
| Garrison, Hamilton, Prescott, Seward, Taylor (each) | 9 |
| Thoreau | 7 |
| Bancroft | 6 |
| Allston | 5 |
| Edwards, Motley (each) | 5 |
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This list certainly offers to the reader some surprises in its details, but it must impress every one, after serious study, as giving a demonstration of real intelligence and catholicity of taste in the nation whose literature it represents.
When, for instance, we consider the vast number of log cabins or small farmhouses where the name of Lincoln is a household word, while that of Emerson is as unknown as
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