and the Saturday Club; and at their entertainments Longfellow was usually present, as were also, in the course of time, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Agassiz, Whittier, and many visitors from near and far. Hawthorne was rarely seen on such occasions, anadical reformers, as Garrison, Phillips, Bronson Alcott, Edmund Quincy, or Theodore Parker, and so did not call out what Emerson christened the soul of the soldiery of dissent.
It would be a mistake to assume that on these occasions Longfellow waa century; he had met them all with the same affability, and had consented, with equal graciousness, to be instructed by Emerson and Sumner, or to be kindly patronized—as the story goes—by Oscar Wilde.
From that room had gone forth innumerable kind
Among his immediate friends, Holmes stood for exact science, Lowell and Whittier for reform, Sumner for statesmanship, Emerson for spiritual and mystic values; even the shy Hawthorne for public functions at home and abroad.
Here was a man whose s
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Eden Hall, 219.
Edgeworth, Miss, Maria, 62.
Edinburgh, 8, 233.
Edinburgh Review, the, 90.
Edrehi, Israel, 214.
Eichhorn, Prof., 46.
Eliot, Charles W., quoted, 184, 185.
Eliot, Samuel A., 182.
Elmwood, Cambridge, 168.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 6, 75,164, 192, 196, 209, 259, 271, 285, 292, 294; on Kavanagh, 199; his influence upon literature, 261, 262; lectures in Cambridge, 272.
England, 7, 12, 33, 71, 72, 101, 167, 170, 195, 214, 223, 248, 252, 255, 257, 259, 260, 263; Lially American, 258-260; interested in loal affairs, 260; dislikes English criticism of our literature, 263, 264; manner in which his poems came to him, 264,265; his alterations, 266, 267; compared with Browning, 270; relations with Whittier and Emerson, 271, 272; on Browning, 272, 273; on Tennyson, 273; his table-talk, 273-275; unpublished poems, 276; descriptions of, 278, 279; his works popular, 280; Cardinal Wiseman on, 281; resembles Turgenieff, 282; home life, 282-285; member of the Russia