Flemish pictures of old days, is not only a poem but a social document of the highest value.
In the words of T. W. Higginson,
Here we have absolutely photographed the Puritan Colonial interior, as it existed till within the memory of old men still living.
No other book, no other picture preserves it to us; all other books, all other pictures combined, leave us still ignorant of the atmosphere which this one page re-creates for us; it is more imperishable than any interior painted by Gerard Douw.
It has been said of Whittier that he could never be concise—and a diffuse style is undoubtedly one of the greatest artistic defects of the body of his verse—but the criticism falls flat in the presence of the lines which describe the fireplace on that winter evening.
This poem has often been compared with The Cotter's Saturday night and it means to the American all and more than Burns's famous poem means to the Scotsman.
There is also much aptitude in a comparison with Crabbe, b
on government, 82
Dissertation on Roast Pig, a, 215
Dissertation on the nature of language as related to thought and spirit, 212
Divine comedy, the, 40
Divine tragedy, the, 39
Divinity School address, 20, 209
Dixie, 291, 292, 303, 305
Dobson, Austin, 243
Doctor Byles's cat, 149
Dodd, W. E., 75 n.
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 402, 409
Dodgson, C. L., 408
Donald and Dorothy, 402
Donne, 343
Dorothy Q., 239, 341
Dotty Dimple books, 402
Douglass, Frederick, 351
Douw, Gerard, 49
Dowden, Edward, 271
Do Ye Quail?, 308
Doyle, Pete, 271
Drake, B. M., 351 n.
Drake, J. R., 150
Drayton, William Henry, 104, 105
Dreaming in the trenches, 291, 303
Dream-Land, 66
Dred Scott case, 89
Driving home the Cows, 286
Drum, the. See Reveille, the
Drummer boy's burial, the, 286
Drummond of Hawthornden, 340
Drum Taps, 269, 270
Dryden, 5, 125, 237
Duane, Wm., 181
Dublin University, 373
DuBois, W. E. Burghardt, 351
Dubourg, Miss, 55
ndall, Dr., Reuben, imprisoned, 48; death, 49.
Cushing, Caleb, 40, 42, 69, 77; candidate for Congress, 41; elected, 43; defeated, 43, 44.
D.
Dana, R. H., 42.
Danvers, Mass., 97, 180.
Dartmouth College, 19.
Declaration of Independence of United States, 69.
Declaration of Sentiments, 74.
Deer Island, 107.
De Quincey, Thomas, his Confessions of an Opium Eater, mentioned, 175.
Derby, Mr., 88.
Dexter, Lord, Timothy, 97.
Dinsmore, Robert, 155.
Douglass, Frederick, 181.
Douw, Gerard, 9.
Dustin, Hannah, 4.
E.
Earle, Edward, 121.
East Haverhill, Mass., 23, 51, 58.
East Salisbury, Mass., 44.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 107.
Elliot, Me., 142.
Ellis, Rev. G. E., 83.
Emancipator, the, mentioned, 67.
Emerson, Nehemiah, 137.
Emerson, Mrs., Nehemiah, 137.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 37, 127,151,159,173,178; his Life and letters in New England, quoted, 80; Whittier's letter to, 46, 47; acquaintance with Whittier, 110, 111.
Endicott, Gov., John, 83-85.
England,