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A.
About, Edmond, 82.
Addison, Joseph, 119, 196.
Aeschylus, 16, 99, 171.
Agassiz, Louis, 177.
Ainsworth, W. H., 94.
Albert, Prince, 28.
Albion newspaper, the, 64.
Aldrich, T. B., 67, 102.
Alford, Henry, 57, 94.
American, an, evolution of, 221.
American Civil War, literary influence of, 65.
American press, as viewed by
Irving, 2.
Americanism, English standard of, 20.
Andersen, H. C., 214.
Anglomania, origin of, 64.
Anti-slavery agitation, literary influence of, 66.
Apologies, unnecessary, 120.
Archer, the jockey, 205.
Ariosto, Lodovico, 187.
Aristophanes, 99, 229.
Aristotle, 174, 232.
Arnold, Sir, Edwin, 106, 110.
Arnold, Matthew, 3, 5, 19, 20, 21, 22, 35, 38, 46, 91, 123, 195, 206, 208.
Austen, Jane, 10, 15, 219, 229.
Austin, Henry, 101.
Austin, Sarah, 144.
B.
Background, the need of a, 113.
Bacon, Lord, 114, 175.
Bailey, P. J., 57.
Bain, Alexander, 202.
Balzac, H. de, 114.
Bancroft, George, 107, 155.
Bancroft, H. H., 172.
Barker, Lemuel, 184.
Bartlett, J. R., 216.
Beaconsfield, Lord, 110, 167, 179, 180.
Beecher, H. W., 60.
Besant, Walter, 74.
‘
Bigelow,’ 54.
Billings, Josh, 59.
Black, William, 202.
Blaine, J. G., 110.
Blake, William, 218.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 28, 52, 109, 188, 234.
Book catalogue, a
Westminster Abbey, 152.
Boston, the, of
Emerson's day, 62.
Boyesen, H. H., 144, 171.
Bremer, Fredrika, 57.
Bridaine, Jacques, 215.
Brougham, Henry, 224.
Brown, Charles Brockden, 51.
Brown, John, 16, 155.
Brown, J. Brownlee, 104.
Browning, Robert, 25, 54, 55, 98, 196.
Bryant, W. C., 100, 147.
Bryce, James, 120, 167, 211.
Bulwer,
see Lytton.
Buntline, Ned, 199, 200.
Burroughs, John, 114.
Burton, Robert, 114.
Byron, Lord, 178, 195, 217.
C.
Cable, G. W., 11, 67.
Cabot, J. E., 175.
Calderon, Serafin, 229, 232.
Carlyle, Thomas, 37, 56, 197, 206, 217.
Casanova, Jacques, 41.
Catullus, 99.
Cervantes, Miguel de, 229.
Champlain, Samuel de, 192.
Channing, E. T., 94
Channing, Walter, 214.
Channing, W. E., 46, 66, 155.
Channing, W. E. (of
Concord), 103.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, 179.
Cherbuliez, Victor, 79.
Chapelain, J., 91.
Chaplin, H. W., 76.
Chicago Anarchists, the, 68.
Choate, Rufus, 213.
Cicero, M. T., 4, 13,16, 171.
City life, limitations of, 80.
Claverhouse, Earl of, 47.
Clemens, S. H., 29, 57.
Cleveland, Grover, 110.
Cobb, Sylvanus, 199, 200.
Coleridge, S. T., 197, 215, 217.
College education, value of, 113.
Comte, Auguste, 32.
Contemporaneous posterity, a, 51.
Conway, M. D., 31.
Cooper, J. F., 58, 62, 155.
Corneille, Pierre, 92.
Cosmopolitan standard, a, 43.
Coster, John, 6.
Court of England not sought by literary men, 74.
Cousin,
Victor, 216.
Creighton, Dr., 34.
Cruger,
Mrs. Julie (
Julien Gordon), 11.
Crusoe, Robinson, 17.
D.
Dante, Alighieri, 48,114, 185, 186, 187, 189, 196.
Darwin, C. R., 29, 49, 124,125,137, 176, 187.
Dead level, the fear of the, 70.
Declaration of independence, applied to literature, 4.
Delphic oracle, answer of, to
Cicero, 4.
Demosthenes, 69.
Descartes, Rene, 71.
Dickens, Charles, 12, 93, 183, 184, 206.
Dickinson, Emily, 16.
Digby, K. H., 116.
Donnelly, Ignatius, 175.
Dime novel, the test of the, 198.
Disraeli, Benj.,
see Beaconsfield.
Drake, Nathan, 187.
Dryden, John, 195.
Dukes, acceptance of, 12.
Doyle, J. A., 33.
E.
Eckermann, J. P., 97, 188, 228.
Edwards, Jonathan, 155.
Eggleston, Edward, 11.
Equation of fame, the, 88.
Eliot, Charles, 174.
Eliot, George, 200.
Elliot, Sir, Frederick, 78, 167.
Emerson, R. W., 7, 15, 27, 36, 39, 42, 46, 49, 54, 63, 66, 71,92, 100, 114, 123, 124, 126, 155, 173, 175, 191, 195, 197, 208, 217, 221.
English criticism on
America, 24.
English society, influence of, on literature, 204, 205.
Europe, the shadow of, 27.
Evolution, the, of an American, 221.
Everett, Edward, 51, 155.
Ewing, Juliana, 203.
F.
Faber, F. W., 94.
Fame, the equation of, 88.
Farmers, American, 75.
Felton, C. C., 90, 174.
Fields, J. T., 51.
Firdousi, 186.
Fiske, Willard, 172,185.
Fitzgerald, P. H., 229.
Fontenelle, Bernard de, 86.
Fuller, M. F.,
see Ossoli.
Fuller, Thomas, 93.
Franklin, Benjamin, 5, 63,155.
Francis, Philip, 190.
Frederick II., 83.
Freeman, E. A., 168.
Froude, J. A., 116, 158, 203.
G.
Garfield, J. A., 111.
Garrison, W. L., 49, 62.
George IV., 111.
Giants, concerning, 185.
Gilder, R. W., 113.
Gladstone, W. E., 110, 167.
Goethe, J. W., 6, 17, 48, 66, 90, 97,
179, 182, 188, 189, 228, 229, 233.
Goodale, G. H., 163.
Gosse, E. W., 123, 195,
Gordon Julien,
see Cruger.
Grant, U. S., 84, 123, 155.
Greeley, Horace, 27.
H.
Hafiz, M. S., 229, 232.
Haggard, Rider, 14, 93, 197, 198, 202, 205.
Hale, E. E., 101.
Hamerton, P. G., 168.
Hardenberg, Friedrich von, 99.
Hardy, A. S., 15, 202.
Haring, John, 6.
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Harte, Bret, 11, 57, 58.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 9, 41, 66, 84, 124, 126, 155, 218, 219.
Hayley, William, 217, 218.
Hayward Memoirs, the, 82, 226.
Hazlitt, William, 216.
Heine, Heinrich, 90, 109, 142, 159, 189, 229.
Hemans, F. D., 179.
High-water marks, concerning, 97.
Hogg, James, 169.
Holmes, O. W., 54, 62, 67, 97, 99, 178, 205.
Holt, Henry, 172.
Homer, 48, 98, 114, 169, 171, 190, 217.
Horace, 16, 48, 99, 114.
Houghton, Lord, 19, 56, 62, 94.
Howells, W. D., 13, 15, 66, 114, 118, 171, 184, 194, 201, 202, 210, 229.
Howe, E. W. 11.
Howe, Julia Ward, 67, 100.
Hugo, Victor, 49, 56, 68, 110.
Humboldt, A. von, 73, 176.
Humor, American, perils of, 128.
Hutchinson, Ellen M., 101, 102.
Huxley, T. H., 137, 158.
I.
Ideals, personal, 106.
Iffland, A. W., 90.
International copyright law, 122.
Irving, Washington, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 20, 64, 216.
J.
Jackson, Andrew, 110.
Jackson, Helen, 68, 102.
James, G. P. R., 94.
James, Henry, 65, 66, 84, 114, 118, 184.
Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 5, 11, 110, 155.
Johnson, Samuel, 197.
Joubert, Joseph, 26, 96, 194, 195.
Jouffroy, T. S., 216.
Junius, 190.
K.
Keats, John, 86, 103.
Kipling, Rudyard, 15.
Kock, Paul de, 56.
Kotzebue, A. F. von, 90.
Khayyam, Omar, 229.
L.
Lafontaine, A. 90.
La Fontaine, J. de, 92.
Lamartine, Alphonse, 182.
Lamb, Charles, 217.
Landor, W. S., 69, 197, 217.
Lang, Andrew, 41, 199.
Lanier, Sidney, 67.
Lapham, Silas, 164, 184.
Larousse, Pierre, 54.
Lawton, W. C., 147.
Leland, C. G., 151.
Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 16, 67, 84, 155.
Literary metropolis, A, 77.
Literary pendulum, The, 213.
Literary tonics, 62.
Liveries, repressive, 75.
London, the, of to-day, 80, 93.
Longfellow, H. W., 29, 39, 66, 81, 93, 100, 155, 215.
Longueville, Duchesse de, 91.
Lowell, J. R., 19, 54, 59, 63, 66, 77, 96, 98, 100, 102, 114, 155, 179, 205.
Lubbock, James, 217.
Lytton, Lord, 179, 180, 181. 182.
M.
Macaulay, T. B., 25, 197.
Madonnas,
Emily Dickinson's definition of, 16.
Maine, Sir Henry, 5, 32.
‘Make thy option which of two,’ 170.
Marlowe, Christopher, 52.
Martel, Charles, 209.
Mason, William, 218.
Matthews, Brander, 12.
Maturin, C. R., 51.
McCosh, James, 111.
Menzel, C. A., 90.
Metropolis, a literary, 77.
Millais, .,. E., 53.
Miller, Joaquin, 20.
Millet, J. F., 53.
Miles,
see Houghton.
Mohammed, 109, 223.
Mohammed and
Bonaparte, 109.
Moliere, J. B. P. de, 92, 186, 229.
Montagu, Elizabeth, 52.
Moore, Thomas, 178, 179.
Morgan, Lady, 59.
Morley, John, 167.
Morris, William, 68.
Motley, J. L., 2, 6, 7, 36, 59, 60, 221.
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Motley, Preble, 222.
Mozart, W. A., 188.
Miller, Max, 171.
Murfree, Mary N., 11, 58.
N.
Newton, Sir, Isaac, 125.
Newton, Stuart, 49.
New World and New Book, the, 1.
Nichol, John, 61.
Niebuhr, B. G., 4.
Novalis,
see Hardenberg.
Norton, C. E., 179, 180, 208.
O.
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 9, 27, 90, 96, 155, 176.
Ossian, 52.
Osten-
Sacken,
Baron, 173.
Oxenstiern, Chancellor, 89.
P.
Palmer, G. H., 148.
Paris, limitations of, 82.
Paris, the world's capital, 77.
Parker, Theodore, 42, 62, 115,155.
Parkman, Francis, 60, 61.
Parton, James, 13.
Pattison, Mark, 50.
Paul, Jean,
see Richter.
Pepys, Samuel, 42.
Perry, Lillah Cabot, 219,
Petrarch, Francesco, 172, 179, 185, 186, 187.
Philip of Burgundy, 6.
Phillips, Wendell, 7, 49, 62, 221, 222.
Plato, 48, 114.
Plot, the proposed abolition of, 135.
Plutarch, 4, 174.
Poe, E. A., 66, 155, 190, 219.
Popkin, J. S., 117, 169, 171, 172, 174.
Posterity, a contemporaneous, 51.
Precision, weapons of, 192.
Prescott, W. H., 59.
Q.
Quincy, Edmund, 22.
Quintilian, 232.
R.
Racine, Jean, 92.
Ramler, C. W., 90.
Raphael da
Urbino, 188.
Rainsford, W. S., 79.
Richter, J. P. F., 182.
Rollo Books, the, 180.
Roscoe, William, 216.
Russell, W. Clark, 202.
Ruskin, John, 53, 97, 114, 187 197, 206.
Rousseau, J. J., 179.
S.
Sala, G. A., 203.
Sand, George, 56.
Scherer, Edmond, 5.
Schiller, J. C. F. von, 90, 179, 189.
Scott. Sir Walter, 10, 15, 46, 94.
Scudder, S. H., 73.
Self-depreciation, the trick of, 206.
Sentimental, decline of the, 178.
Seward, Anna, 218.
Shadow of
Europe, the, 27.
Shakespeare, William, 16, 21, 48, 52, 186, 188, 189, 191.
Shelley, P. B., 190.
Sheridan, P. H., 47, 123.
Sidney, Sir, Philip, 83.
Slavery,
Emerson's poem on, 8.
Sly, Christopher, 213.
Smith, Goldwin, 3.
Southey, Robert, 217.
Spencer, Herbert, 216.
Spenser, Edmund, 18, 83, 94.
Spofford, Harriet P., 102.
Stackpole, J. L., 222.
Stedman, E. C., 62, 67, 100.
Sterling, John, 56, 94.
Stevenson, R. L., 65.
St. Nicholas magazine, riddles in, 23.
Stockton, F. R., 219.
Stoddard, R. H., 67.
Stowe, H. B., 57, 58, 66, 68.
Sumner, Charles, 70, 155.
Sumner, W. G., 19.
Swinburne, A. C., 68,158.
T.
Taine, H. A., 53.
Taking ourselves seriously, on, 35.
Talleyrand, C. M., 193.
Tasso, Torquato, 187, 217.
Taylor, Bayard, 67, 100.
Taylor, Sir, Henry, 78, 167.
Taylor, Thomas, 215.
Temperament, an American, 2.
Tennyson, Lord, 25, 29, 53, 56, 94, 95, 98, 124, 126, 184, 196, 203, 205.
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Test of the dime novel, the, 198.
Thackeray, W. M., 93, 111.
Thomas, Isaiah, 42.
Thompson, Maurice, 67.
Thoreau, H. D., VI., 9, 16, 73, 90, 114, 155, 175, 220.
Ticknor, George, 19.
Tocqueville, A. C. H. de, 32, 121.
Tolstoi, Count, Leo, 35.
Tonics, literary, 62.
Touchstone quoted, 21.
Tourgueneff, Ivan, 219.
Town and gown, 161.
Tracy, Uriah, 46.
Transcendental school, the, 8.
Translators, American, 144.
Travers, W. R., 82.
Trench, R. C., 57.
Trollope, Frances, 24.
Tupper, M. F., 98.
Twain, Mark,
see Clemens.
Tyndall, John, 22.
U, V.
Urquhart, David, 208, 209.
Vestris, M., 83.
Virgil, 99, 171, 217.
Voltaire, F. M. A. de, 52, 53, 83, 187, 189
Von Holst, H. E., 32.
W.
Wagner, Richard, 16.
Wallace, H. B., 51.
Wallace, Lew, 67.
Walpole, Horace, 135, 210.
Walton, Izaak, 202.
Walworth, M. T., 198, 200.
Ward, Artemus, 59.
Warner, C. D., 2. 72.
Washington, George, 112, 155.
Wasson, D. A., v., 103.
Weapons of precision, 192.
Webb, R. D., 29.
Webster, Daniel, 155, 224.
Weiss, John, 104.
Weller, Sam, 182.
Westminster Abbey of a book catalogue, 152.
White, J. Blanco, 98.
Whitman, Walt, 58, 67, 100.
Whittier, J. G., 25, 60, 62, 66.
Wieland, C. M., 90.
Wilde, Oscar, 93.
William the Silent, 6.
Willis, N. P., 27, 28, 29, 93.
Wilkins, Mary E., 11.
Winsor, Justin, 172.
Wolfe, General, 103.
Wolseley, Lord, 123.
Wordsworth, William, 94, 217.
World-literature, a, 228.
Z.
Zelter, C. F., 97.
Zincke, Canon, 39.
Zola, Emile, 56, 229.
