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[320] 1854. Thoreau's Walden. 1855. Whitman's Leaves of grass. 1855. Longfellow's Hiawatha. 1857. The Dred Scott Decision. 1857. Atlantic monthly founded. 1858. Holmes's Autocrat of the breakfast table. 1858. Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 1859. John Brown's Raid. 1860. Hawthorne's Marble Faun. 1860. Stedman's Poems, lyric and Idyllic. 1861. Lincoln President. 1861. Confederacy organized. 1861. Beginning of the War of the Rebellion. 1863. Emancipation Proclamation. 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. 1865. Surrender of Lee. 1865. Assassination of Lincoln. 1865. Lowell's Commemoration Ode. 1866. Whittier's Snow-bound. 1866. Howells's Venetian days. 1868. E. E. Hale's The man without a country. 1869. Aldrich's Story of a bad boy. 1869. “Mark Twain's” Innocents abroad. 1870. Bret Harte's Luck of roaring Camp. 1876. Lanier's Poems. 1876. Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1878. Henry James's Daisy Miller. 1879. Stockton's Rudder Grange. 1880. Cable's The Grandissimes. 1882. Longfellow and Emerson died. 1884. “Mark Twain's” Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Howells's Rise of Silas Lapham. 1891. Lowell died. 1892. Whittier and Whitman died. 1893. World's Fair at Chicago. 1894. Holmes died. 1898. Spanish-American War. 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, President. 1902. Bret Harte died.
Boston, New York and Chicago. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903.
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