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I. Henry W. Longfellow: The Writings of ... with Bibliographical and Critical Notes (11 vols., Boston, 1886 [Vols. I–VI, Poetical Works; VII–VIII, Prose Works; IX–XI, Dante]).

See Samuel Longfellow, Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3 vols., Boston and New York, 1891). T. W. Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in American Men of Letters Series, Boston and New York, 1902).

II. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Works (12 vols., Boston, 1871–76; Fireside Edition, 12 vols., Boston, 1879; Riverside Edition, 12 vols., Boston, 1883; Standard Library Edition, 15 vols., Boston, 1891 [contains Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, by Julian Hawthorne]; New Wayside Edition, 13 vols., Boston, 1902).

The best-known life is Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife (2 vols., Boston, 1885). Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne (in English Men of Letters Series, London, 1879; New York, 1885, 1887). See also W. C. Brownell, American Prose Masters (New York, 1909). John Erskine, Great American Novelists (New York, 1910). Carl Van Doren, The American Novel (New York, 1921); Stuart P. Sherman, Americans (New York, 1923).

III. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Works (Riverside Edition, 13 vols., Boston, 1891, additional volume, 1892; Autocrat Edition, 13 vols., Boston and New York, 1904).

See George B. Ives A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston and New York, 1907). John T. Morse, Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (2 vols., Boston and New York, 1896).—Lewis W. Townsend, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Centenary Biography (London, 1909).

James Russell Lowell: Works (Riverside Edition, 13 vols., Boston and New York, 1902 [contains Scudder’s Life]; Elmwood Edition, 16 vols., Boston, 1904 [four volumes of letters]). Anti-Slavery Papers (2 vols., Boston and New York, 1902). Letters of James Russell Lowell (edited by Charles Eliot Norton, 2 vols., New York, 1893; 3 vols., Boston, 1904). Early Prose Writings of ... (2 vols., New York, 1903).

G. W. Cooke, A Bibliography of James Russell Lowell (Boston and New York, 1906). H. E. Scudder, James Russell Lowell: A Biography (2 vols., Boston, 1901). Ferris Greenslet, James Russell Lowell: A Biography (2 vols., Boston, 1901). Ferris Greenslet, James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work (Boston, 1905). See also C. Hartley Grattan, “Lowell” (The American Mercury, Vol. II, p. 69): Harry Hayden Clark, Lowell’s Criticism of Romantic Literature (“Publications of the Modern Language Association,” March, 1926); W. D. Howells, Literary Friends and Acquaintances (New York, 1902); Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere (New York, 1893); J. J. Reilly, James Russell Lowell as a Critic (New York, 1915); and John M. Robertson, Lowell as a Critic (North American Review, February, 1919).

Index [Volume Two]

Abolitionists, The, 333, 337

Abraham Davenport, 370

Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East, 173, 174, 176

Adams, John, 13, 15, 17, 22, 78, 82, 95, 119, 187, 198, 226, 231, 282, 283, 305, 306, 316, 325, 393, 456

——, John Quincy, 242, 249, 276, 365

——, Samuel, 292, 380, 423

Addison, Joseph, 31, 35, 199, 453

Additional Speeches, 297 n, 300, 316, 415, 420, 421 n, 422, 423

Adventures of Captain Bonneville, 209, 211

Aeneid, 32

Agassiz, Louis, 458

Agriculture of England, The, 304

Alcott, Bronson, 342, 348, 349, 394, 402, 426

Alcuin, A Dialogue, 189

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 469

Alexander H. Stephens, Life of, 83, 86, 89, 91

Alexis, Grand Duke, 458

American Democrat, The, 226, 227

American Liberty, 287

American Mercury, The, 466 n

American Note-Books, 447, 448, 449

American Notes, 441

American Novel, The, 133

American Political Ideas, 94, 334 n

American Scholar, The, 390

Ames, Fisher, ii, 19, 21, 36, 109, 113, 116, 119, 198, 241, 276, 279–288, 291, 293, 296, 297, 315, 317, 329

——, Dr. Nathaniel, 279, 280

Anarchiad, The, 24

Anne, Queen, 452

Anthony, Katharine, 427, 432

Anti-Apis, 464 n

Anti-Rent Novels, 231, 233

Apology and Defense, 309 n

Arbitrament of National Disputes, The, 121 n

Aristotle, 307

Arnold, Matthew, 265, 472

Arthur Mervyn, 190

Astor, John Jacob, 195, 201, 203, 208, 211, 231

Astoria, 209, 211

Ashe, Thomas, 215

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 169 n, 170

Authorship of David Crockett’s Autobiography, The, 177 n

Autobiography of Davy Crockett, 166

Autobiography of Joseph Story, 300

Backwoodsman, The, 215

Bacon, Lord, 31, 307

Baldwin, Joseph G., 133, 162, 166

Bancroft, George, 437–439

Bank of the United States, The, 309 n

Barlow, Joel, 188

Bartol, C. A., 384

Basis of the Senate, The, 306, 307, 310, 315

Bassett, John, 148, 149

Baxter, Richard, 371

Beard, Professor Charles A., 13 n, 15, 18–19

Beauchampe, 130

Beecher, Elizabeth, 342 n

——, Henry Ward, 238, 344, 351, 399

——, Lyman, 357, 371, 375, 376

Benjamin, Parke, 238

Bennett, James Gordon, 102 n, 356

Bentham, Jeremy, 166

Benton, Thomas H., 14, 55, 151, 246, 309

Berkeley, Bishop, 380

Beveridge, Albert J., 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 316 n

Bibliolâtres, 464 n

Biddle, Nicholas, 55

Biglow Papers, The, 368, 464, 464 n

Bird, Robert Montgomery, 135, 162, 166, 190–192, 220, 235

Birney, James G., 246, 333, 351, 359, 365

Blackstone, 31, 35, 47, 113, 117, 120, 168, 197, 302, 313

Blithedale Romance, The, 442, 448

Blücher, Marshal, 94

Boone, Daniel, 138, 139, 162

Border Beagles, 128

Boston Kidnapping, The, 423

Bourlamaqui, 117

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 236

Bradbury, John, 215

Brevoort, Henry, 205

Briant, Lemuel, 325, 326

Bright, John, 241

Brisbane, Albert, ii, 101, 108, 200, 208, 242, 251, 350, 448

British Spy, The, 31, 33, 41

Broker of Bogota, The, 191

Brown, Charles Brockden, 188–190

——, John, 155, 159, 360, 364, 399, 402, 412, 458

Brownson, Orestes, ii, 108

Bryant, William Cullen, 201, 208, 238–246, 247, 257, 258, 366, 458

Buckminster, Rev. Joseph Stevens, 113

Bunyan, John, 366

Burgess, John W., 94

Burke, Edmund, 12, 15, 31, 94, 305, 311, 366, 392, 467

Burns, Anthony, 359, 360, 411, 423

——, Robert, 366

Burr, Aaron, 197

Bushnell, Rev. Horace, 356

Byrd, Col. William, 8

Byron, Lord, 111, 116, 200, 216

Cabell, James Branch, 259, 260

Cabot, George, 296

Caleb Williams, 190

Calhoun, John C., 4, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 61, 66, 67, 68, 69–82, 83, 89, 91, 93, 102, 109, 115, 120, 123, 126, 136, 137, 144, 150, 152, 153, 168, 170, 299, 311, 312, 357, 399, 467, 468, 473

Calvin, John, 215, 272, 273, 321, 340, 416, 457

Camillus, 285–286

Campbell, Thomas, 200

Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington, On the, 464 n

Carey, Matthew, 185–186

Carlyle, Thomas, 47, 101, 111, 381, 389, 393, 406, 412

Carpenter, G. R., 351, 367

Caruthers, Dr. William Alexander, 28, 41–46, 377

Cass, Lewis, 246

Cathedral, The, 266

Catullus, 453

Cavaliers of Virginia, The, 41, 45

Chadwick, John White, 330, 338

Chainbearer, The, 232, 234, 236

Chambered Nautilus, The, 453

Channing, William Ellery, 188, 252, 300, 314, 317, 319, 325, 326, 327, 328–338, 339, 342, 357, 361, 371, 390, 393, 420, 435, 443, 454, 456

——, William Ellery (Younger), 401

——, William Henry, 108, 228, 241, 347, 348, 428, 429

Chapman, Mrs., 351

Chardon Street Convention, The, 345

Charlemont, 130

Charles I, King, 372

“Charming Creature” as a Wife, The, 172

Chase, L. B., 102

Chaucer, 47

Chicora and Other Poems, 103

Child, Francis, 465

——, Lydia Maria, 351

Choate, Rufus, 152, 329, 367, 368, 397, 398, 421, 423

Chronicle, The, 206

Churchill, Charles, 452

Civil Disobedience, 409, 410, 411

Civil Liberty and Self-Government, 95

Clarel, 265, 266–267

Clark, George Rogers, 138

Clarke, J. F., 429, 430

Clay, Henry, 4, 34, 37, 46, 48, 67, 69, 71, 122, 138, 139, 142–144, 145, 150, 152, 153, 209, 218, 242, 243, 249, 296, 298, 309, 333, 353, 365, 366, 397, 399

Clayton, Augustus S., 176

Cleon, 398

Cliffton, William, 188

Climbing the Natural Bridge, 46

Clinton, De Witt, 201

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 265

Cobbett, William, 185, 186

Cobden, Richard, 241

Coke, Sir Edward, 15, 47, 117

Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, 173, 178 n

Coleridge, Samuel T., 58, 381, 389

Collins, Wilkie, 458

Columbus, 464 n

Commentaries on American Law, 199

Commentaries on the Constitution, 301–303, 311, 312

Commons, John R., 250, 252, 253, 254

Comte, Auguste, 30

Condillac, Etienne de, 382

Condorcet, Marquis de, 10, 11, 293

Congressional Debates, 175

Congreve, William, 54

Connecticut, 202

Constitutional History of Greece, The, 116

Constitutional View of the War between the States, 9, 56, 83, 88, 89, 90 n, 91, 302

Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States, The, 311

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated, 299

Conway, Moncure D., 90

Cooke, Jay, 474

——, John Esten, ii, 28

Cooper, James Fenimore, 37, 131, 133, 135, 141, 183, 193, 196, 204, 207, 208, 216, 220, 222–237, 238, 257, 266, 457

——, James Fenimore (grandson), 207 n, 229

——, Judge William, 194, 224, 225

——, Dr., 72

Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper, 207 n, 229

Cotton, Rev. John, 118

Country, The, 103

Courier and Enquirer, The, 253

Cousin, Victor, 381

Coverley, Sir Roger de, 52

Cowper, William, 188, 264

Crafts, William, 112–114

Crater, The, 226

Crawford, W. H., 168

Cream of the Jest, The, 259

Crèvecœur, Hector St. John de, 215

Croaker Papers, 200

Crockett, Davy, 45, 138, 147, 162, 165, 172–179, 192, 366

Cromwell, Oliver, 213, 464

Cruse, Peter Hoffman, 48

Cujacius, 117

Curtis, George William, 238

Cushing, Caleb, 362, 365

Daniel Webster, 297 n

Dante, 440, 466

Darwin, Charles, 419, 455

Davis, Jefferson, 4, 62, 65–66, 70, 86, 146, 299, 468

Debating Society, The, 172

Declaration of Whig Principles and Purposes, 310

Decline of Aristocracy in New York Politics, 199, 224, 244

Democracy, 467 n

Democracy, Pacific and Constructive, 244

Dennie, Joseph, 187

De Quincey, Thomas, 258

Dew, Professor, 102

Dial, The, 348

Dickens, Charles, 47, 127, 141, 441

Dickinson, John, 186

Discourses on Government, 354

Disquisition on Government, A, 75 n, 77, 79, 299

Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, The, 214

Divina Commedia, 440

Divinity School Address, 337, 390

Domnei, 260

Don Quixote, 31

Douglas, Stephen A., 153, 397, 398

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 200

Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, 377

Dred Scott, 157

Dryden, John, 31, 104, 289

Dumas, Alexandre, 216

Dutchman’s Fireside, The, 220

Dwight, Theodore, 278

——, Timothy, 71, 188, 240, 324, 340, 371

Early Spanish Ballads, 116

Ecclesiastes, 264

Echo, The, 24

Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy, The, 13 n, 15, 19

Edward I, King, 260

Edwards, Jonathan, 71, 321, 323, 324, 372, 373, 379, 399, 445

Eliot, Rev. John, 201, 343

Elliot’s Debates, 83

Elliott, S. K., 102

Elsie Venner, 454, 459

Emancipation of Labor, The, 256

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 108, 226, 230, 258, 264, 266, 304, 314, 316, 317, 319, 337, 344, 349, 373, 379, 380, 383, 384, 385, 386–399, 401, 409, 412, 420, 426, 429, 431, 433, 439, 447, 449, 451, 455, 462, 474

Encyclopedia Americana, 94

English Serfdom and American Slavery, 102

English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 461

Epipsychidion, 259

Epistle of Robert Hogbin, Esq., 201

Essays (Emerson), 387, 390

Essay on Politics, 393, 394, 396, 397

Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females, 342 n

Essay on Thoreau, 346 n

Evans, George Henry, 254

Evening Post, The, 102 n, 239, 242 n, 244, 245

Everett, Edward, 109, 159, 317, 319, 320, 329, 397, 399, 423, 437, 458, 460

Examination of the Late Proceedings in Congress Respecting ... the Secretary of the Treasury, An, 15

Exclusion of Slavery from the Territories, On the, 312–313

“Falkland,” 287

Fanny, 202

Federal Orrery, The, 294

Federalist, The, 24, 196, 286, 302, 303

Felton, Professor, 367

Fenn, William W., 324 n, 327

Fenno, John, 186, 206

Ferdinand and Isabella, 434

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 382, 430

Fielding, Henry, 128

Fight, The, 172

Fillmore, President Millard, 47

Filmer, Sir Robert, 215

Fink, Mike, 138, 192

First Settlement of England, The, 306, 307–308

Flint, Rev. Timothy, 51, 140, 141, 162–163, 211

Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, 133, 162, 166

Follen, Professor Charles, 94, 441

Forayers, The, 132, 134

Forrest, Edwin, 191

Fourier, François Charles Marie, 30, 244, 251, 348, 349, 431

Fox, Dixon Ryan, 199, 224, 244

Francis Berrian, or the Mexican Patriot, 163

Franklin, Benjamin, 11, 185, 225, 228, 308

Frederick Douglass, 431

Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 439

Freneau, Philip, 186, 196

Frothingham, Octavius B., 348, 379, 380, 384

Fugitive Slave Law, The, 315

Fuller (Ossoli), Margaret, 314, 349, 426–434, 436, 439, 448

——, Timothy, 427

Gage, General, 459

Gaines, Francis Pendleton, 102 n

Galloway, Joseph, 186

Gander Pulling, The, 172

Gansevoort, Maria, 259, 260, 261

——, Major-General Peter, 260

Garland, Hamlin, 213

Garrison, William Lloyd, 256, 314, 319, 332, 341, 343, 351, 352–361, 365, 366, 411, 415, 416, 420, 431, 448, 458

Genêt, Citizen, 292

Genius of Universal Emancipation, The, 353

George Balcombe, 162

George, Henry, 467

George Mason, the Young Backwoodsman; or “Don’t Give up the Ship,” 163

Georgia Historical Quarterly, The, 177 n

Georgia Scenes, 51, 162, 166, 168, 169, 172, 178 n

Georgia Theatrics, 172, 178 n

Gladiator, The, 191

Gladstone, W. E., 472

Glance Behind the Curtain, A, 464, 464 n

Godey’s Lady’s Book, 187

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 257, 468, 471

Godwin, Parke, 200, 243, 244

——, William, 11, 22, 33, 188, 189, 190, 242, 331, 335, 336, 409

Goethe, 389, 430, 433

Gournay, Vincent de, 11

Governor Clinton’s Speech, 201 n

Grant, General U. S., 48

Grattan, C. Hartley, 466 n

Gray, Edward, 48

——, Elizabeth, 48

——, Thomas, 31, 188

Grayson, William J., 103–108, 110, 111, 256

Greeley, Horace, 101, 107, 108, 200, 208, 238, 242, 244, 247–258, 352, 399, 432, 458

Green, Duff, 36

Greene, General, 132

Greenfield Hill, 340

Grimké, Angelina, 342 n, 432

—— Sisters, 343, 351

Grotius, 117, 306

Gulliver’s Travels, 262

Guy Rivers, 130

Hale, Edward Everett, 462 n

Hall, Captain Basil, 215

——, James, 51, 140 n, 162, 164, 172, 211

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 200, 238

Hamilton, Alexander, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 24, 36, 48, 89, 93, 94, 95, 138, 143, 148, 156, 196, 197, 198, 206, 227, 245, 285, 291, 297, 305, 309, 316, 473

Hammond, Governor, 102

Harbinger, The, 244

Harper, Chancellor, 102

Harpe’s Head, 164, 165, 172

Harrington, James, 5, 305, 306, 307

Harrison Gray Otis, 341 n

Hartford Wits, The, 24, 188

Harvard Graduates, 467

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 259, 265, 442–450

Hayes, President Rutherford B., 472

Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 126

——, Robert Young, 310, 330

Hedge, Frederick Henry, 430

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 318

Heine, Heinrich, 439

Helper, Hinton R., 133

Henry, Patrick, 33, 34

Hergesheimer, Joseph, 445

Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265

Hervey, James, 31

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 314, 344 n, 351, 414

Hildreth, Richard, 438

Hints toward Reforms, 250 n, 252 n, 257

Hireling and the Slave, The, 103, 104, 108

History of the American Drama, A, 191

History of the Congregational Churches in the United States, 324 n, 325 n

History of the United States, 437–438

Hoar, Judge, 402

Hobbes, Thomas, 78

Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 163

——, Josiah Ogden, 206

——, Matilda, 206

Holmes, Abiel, 454

——, Oliver Wendell, 260, 319, 320, 451–459, 460

Home as Found, 141, 229, 230, 233

Homeward Bound, 233

Hone, Philip, 245

Hopes and Fears for Art, 407

Hopkins, Samuel, 329, 340, 373, 375–376

Hopkinson, Francis, 186

Horace, 453

Horace Greeley, 254 n

Horace Greeley and the Working-Class Origins of the Republican Party, 250, 252, 253, 254

Horseshoe Robinson, 41, 51, 53

Horse Swap, The, 172

House of the Seven Gables, The, 446

Howells, William Dean, 466

Huger, Alfred, 103

Hughes, Thomas, 469

Hume, David, 385

Hunt, Gaillard, 71, 72 n, 80

Hutchinson, Governor Thomas, 276

Ichabod, 315

Illinois Monthly Magazine, The, 164

Independent in Politics, The, 471 n, 469

Industrial Worker, The, 141

Inquiry into the Nature of the Constitution of the United States, An, 299

Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, An, 15

Inquiry into the Principles and Tendencies of Certain Public Measures, An, 15

Introductory Remarks, 326, 333–334, 336

Introduction to the Old Testament, 417

Invention of Letters, The, 291

Irving, Pierre M., 205

——, Washington, 29, 47, 49, 50, 51, 54, 172, 183, 195, 200, 203–212, 213, 218, 238, 471

——, William, 213

Jackson, Andrew, 4, 8, 26, 29, 34, 36, 37, 55, 63, 90, 122, 139, 145–152, 154, 156, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 198, 207, 241, 242, 243, 249, 298, 309, 353

——, Stonewall, 65, 70

Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 345, 382

Jacobiniad, The, 294

James Russell Lowell, 465

James Russell Lowell and his Friends, 462 n

Java Head, 445

Jay, John, 196, 198, 224, 225, 227

Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 21, 22, 26, 33, 38, 61, 62, 66, 69, 70, 71, 77, 84, 88, 89, 90, 111, 119, 120, 142, 146, 148, 150, 151, 153, 158, 159, 206, 228, 239, 240, 241, 243, 251, 252, 272, 277, 278, 284, 287, 288, 300, 301, 302, 335, 366, 383, 390, 394, 396, 421, 430, 462, 468, 473

Jefferson Davis, A Memoir by his Wife, 146

Jeffersonian Democracy in New England, 255 n

Jeremiah, 282

Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarians, 116

John Bull in America, 214

John G. Whittier, 367

John Greenleaf Whittier, 351

Johnson, Andrew, 468

——, Dr. Samuel, 35, 109

Jonathan Wild, 128

Journal (Thoreau), 411 n

Journals (Emerson), 317, 344, 349, 386, 387, 391, 392, 393 n, 395, 398, 399, 409

Justice and Expediency, 362, 377

Juvenal, 453

Kane, Elisha Kent, 50

Kant, Emmanuel, 343, 382, 430

Katherine Walton, 128 n

Keats, John, 111, 453

Kennedy, John Pendleton, ii, 28, 37, 41, 46–56, 160, 172, 177, 203, 377

——, William Sloane, 367

Kent, Chancellor James, 117, 196, 197–199

——, William, 198

Kentuckian in New York, The, 41, 45, 46, 377

King, Charles, 245

——, Rufus, 196

Kirkland, President, 280, 281, 284–285

Kirkpatrick, John Ervin, 140, 141

Kneeland, Abner, 463, 469

“Knickerbocker” History, 212

Knickerbocker Magazine, The, 46, 163

Knights of the Horse-Shoe, The, 45

Knox, General, 291

Koningsmarke, 216, 218, 219

Lamar, L. Q. C., 62

——, President, 170

Landing at Plymouth, The, 3 n

Landor, Walter Savage, 389

Last Days of John Brown, The, 412

Last Leaf, The, 260

Last of the Mohicans, The, 235

Law of God and the Statutes of Men, The, 421 n

Leaves of Grass, 466

Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal of Massachusetts Bay, 363

Leben Jesu, 417

Lectures on Constitutional Law, 299

Lee, General Robert E., 29, 65

Legaré, Hugh Swinton, ii, 96, 103, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114–124, 168, 169, 438

Legends of the West, 164

Leggett, William, 200, 208, 243, 244, 245

Leonard, Daniel, 276

Letter to A. C. Henry (Lincoln), 155

Letter to the Members of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society of Boston, 417 n, 418, 419, 420

Letters of James Russell Lowell, 437 n, 461, 462 n, 463, 466, 467, 469, 470, 471

Letter of Mr. Paul Ambrose on the Great Rebellion in the United States, 56

Letters from the South, 198, 216 n, 217

Letters on Slavery, 102

Lewis, Matthew Gregory (“Monk”), 220

Liberator, The, 341, 353, 359

Life and Adventures of Arthur Clenning, The, 163

Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, The, 347–348, 414, 417 n

Life and Letters of Joseph Story, The, 301

Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, The, 453

Life and Letters of Washington Irving, The, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210

Life of Andrew Jackson, 148, 149

Life of William Lloyd Garrison, 256 n, 332 n, 342 n, 344, 344 n, 353–354, 356, 358, 359–360, 365, 368

Life of James Louis Petigru, 103, 104, 111

Life of John P. Kennedy, 48

Life of John Marshall, 22, 24

Life of Martin Van Buren, 173, 174, 176, 177

Life of Milton, 466

Life of Henry David Thoreau, 314

Life of Washington, 211

Life of Whitman, 367

Life Without and Life Within, 430 n, 431

Literary History of America, A, 416 n, 427

Lieber, Francis, 93–98

Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 66, 152–160, 242, 420 n, 422, 473

Literary History of Philadelphia, 185

Literature of the Middle Western Frontier, The, 164

Livingston, Chancellor, 227

Locke, John, 197, 198, 199, 228, 282, 287, 305, 380, 381, 382, 420

Longfellow, Henry W., 319, 320, 439–441, 453, 465

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 51, 162, 166–172, 176, 178

Lord Byron’s Character and Writings, 116

Loring, Commissioner Edward G., 360, 368, 411, 423

Lost Occasion, The, 367

Lovejoy, Elijah P., 246, 333

Lowell, Rev. Charles, 402, 463

——, Francis Cabot, 462

——, James Russell, 266, 314, 315, 351, 368, 436, 440, 460–472, 474

——, John, 461, 462

Lucius Junius Brutus, 284, 285

Lundy, Benjamin, 353

Lyrical and other Poems, 114

McDuffie, Governor George, 62, 81, 136, 168, 170

Madison, James, 6, 71, 196, 288, 305

Magnalia Christi Americana, 371

Man the Reformer, 396, 397

Mann, Horace, 399

Manual of American Literature, A, 438 n

Marcy, Governor William M., 244

Mardi, 260, 261, 262, 263

Margaret Fuller, A Psychological Biography, 427 n, 432

Marshall, John, 8, 20–27, 47, 94, 138, 197, 245, 300, 301, 302, 316, 473

Martin Chuzzlewit, 141

Martineau, Harriet, 351

Marx, Karl, 251, 467

Mason, Col. George, 277

Massachusetts to Virginia, 368

Masson, David, 466

Mather, Cotton, 202, 371, 391, 414, 428, 447

May, Samuel J., 351

Mayhew, Jonathan, 325, 326, 462

Mazzini, 428, 433

Mellichampe, 129

Melvill, Sir Richard, 260

Melville, Allan, 260, 261

——, Herman, ii, 58, 131, 183, 238, 258–267, 445, 449

——, Major Thomas, 260

Memoirs and Letters of James Kent, 198

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 429, 430, 431, 434

Menander to Philenia, 288

Merriam, Charles A., 72 n, 94, 334 n

Metternich, Prince, 94

Militia Company Drill, The, 72

Mill, James, 428

——, John Stuart, 104, 472

Milton, John, 109, 366

Minister’s Wooing, The, 374

Minutes and Debates of the Constitutional Convention, 72

Mirabeau, Marquis de, 10, 293

Moby Dick, 131, 261, 262, 263

Modestinus, 117

Monikins, The, 227, 228, 229

Monroe, James, 71

Montesquieu, Charles, 73, 75, 76, 94, 306, 392, 393

Moore, Tom, 30, 111, 114, 185, 187, 200

Moral Bully, The, 453, 454

Morison, S. E., 341 n

Morley, John, 472

Morris, Gouverneur, 194, 196, 230, 280

——, Robert, 8, 21, 183, 195

——, William, 396, 406, 407, 408, 472

Morse, Jedidiah, 321

——, John T., 453

——, S. F. B., 50

Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth, 288

Motley, John Lothrop, 83, 438

Mott, Lucretia, 35, 428

Napoleon, 240

Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, 172, 174, 175

Narrative of the Surprizing Works of God, 445

Nathan, James, 428

Nation, The, 468, 470

National Philanthropist, The, 342

Nature, 390, 447

Nature and Progress of Liberty, 291

Nebraska Question, The, 420, 421–422, 424

Nemours, Du Pont de, 3, 10, 243

Nevins, Allan, 102 n, 242 n, 244, 245

New England Chattels, 102

New Views of the Constitution of the United States, 299

New York Herald, The, 102 n, 356–357

Nick of the Woods, or the Jibbenainosay, 135, 191, 192, 235

Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 94

Nightingale, Florence, 107

North American Review, The, 111, 442

Norton, Andrews, 329, 454

——, Charles Eliot, 441, 460, 465, 470

Novalis, 430

Noyes, John Humphrey, 343–346, 355, 359

Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 185

Oceana, The, 306, 307

Old Cambridge, 341 n

Old-Town Folks, 372, 373, 374

One-Hoss Shay, The, 453, 454

Orations and Addresses, 201

Origin of Species, The, 419

Origin, History and Influence of Roman Legislation, The, 116

Ossian, 31, 111, 186

Ossoli, Count, 428

Otis, Harrison Gray, 279, 353

——, James, 325

Owen, Robert, 30, 242, 349

Page, J. W., 102

——, Thomas Nelson, 28

Paine, Robert Treat, 113, 279, 288–295, 317, 329, 436, 452

——, Thomas, 11, 12, 22, 88, 96, 284, 288, 342, 356, 366

Papinian, 117

Parker, Theodore, 108, 115, 124, 171, 256, 297 n, 300, 311, 314, 315, 316 n, 319, 327, 329, 338, 342, 347, 351, 373, 398, 399, 414–425, 426, 430, 433, 439, 455, 456, 458

Parkinson, Richard, 215

Parkman, Francis, 438–439, 458

Parson Turell’s Legacy, 453

Partisan, The, 53, 134

Partisan Leader, The, 35, 36, 37

Pascal, 264

Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia, 7, 8

Patrick Henry, Sketches of the Life and Character of, 31–33

Paulding, James Kirke, 162, 163, 183, 190, 198, 200, 207, 212–221, 238

Peabody, Elizabeth, 443

——, Sophia, 443, 449

Peaslee, Mary, 364

Pendleton, L. B., 83, 86, 87, 91

——, Nancy, 47

Perfectionist, The, 343

Perry, Commodore, 50

Petigru, James Louis, 103, 110, 123, 168

Phillips, Wendell, 108, 256, 314, 333, 351, 420, 436, 458

Phocion, 287

Pickering, Timothy, 187, 296

Pierpont, John, 365

Pierre, or the Ambiguities, 261, 263, 264

Pike, Albert, 162

Pilgrim’s Progress, 129

Pinckney, General Charles Cotesworth, 110

Pindar, 402

Pioneer, The, 464 n

Pioneers, The, 216, 220, 224

Pitt, William, 170, 282

Plato, 252, 259, 264, 318, 381, 427

Plea for Captain John Brown, A, 413

Poe, Edgar Allan, 57–59, 127

Poet of the Breakfast Table, The, 455, 457, 458

Poganuc People, 372, 374

Political Ethics, 95

Political Justice, 331, 335, 336, 409–410

Political Science Quarterly, The, 250

Pope, Alexander, 31, 104, 114, 289, 290, 452, 466

Port Folio, The, 187

Prairie, The, 232

Prescott, W. H., 367, 438

Present Age, The, 395

Present Crisis, The, 464, 464 n

Prince, H. L., 154

Professor at the Breakfast Table, The, 455, 456

Progress and Poverty, 467

Prometheus, 463, 464, 464 n

Prometheus Bound, 402

Pro-Slavery Argument, 102

Pro-Slavery Propaganda in American Fiction in the Fifties, 102

Prose Sketches and Poems, 162

Pufendorf, Baron von, 117

Puritan and his Daughter, The, 215, 216

Quesnay, François, 3, 10, 11

Quincy, Edmund, 314, 343, 345, 331, 359, 436

——, Josiah, 276, 279, 329, 343, 368, 460, 462

Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 191 n

Quodlibet, 37, 51, 55, 56, 177

Rabelais, 262, 265

Raciad, The, 114

Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann, 111

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 307

Randolph, John of Roanoke, 8, 9, 26, 30, 31, 35, 57

Ranke, Leopold von, 437

Rawle on the Constitution, 299

Rebellion, The, 468 n

Recollections of a Busy Life, 249

Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, 163

Recorder, The, 201 n

Red Book, The, 48, 51

Redskins, The, 226 n, 229, 230, 231, 236

Reed, Amy Louise, 446, 448

Religious History of New England: King’s Chapel Lectures, 324 n, 327

Rhymed Lesson, A, 452 n

Ricardo, David, 241

Richard Hurdis, 128, 130

Richter, Jean Paul, 430

Rights of Man, The, 12

Rights of Woman, 331

Ripley, Dr. Ezra, 199, 402

——, George, 101, 108, 242, 347, 348, 349, 350

——, Sophia, 349

Rise of the Dutch Republic, The, 438

Rittenhouse, David, 185

Rob of the Bowl, 51, 53, 54

Robespierre, 398

Robinson Crusoe, 163

Robinson, William A., 255 n

Rogers, Dr., 199

Romance of American History, 140 n, 166

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 11, 22, 242, 261, 264, 284, 318, 331, 345, 366, 390, 402, 413, 420, 430, 433, 434, 466

Ruling Passion, The, 290

Rusk, Ralph Leslie, 164, 165

Ruskin, John, 101, 406, 407

Saint’s Rest, 371

Salmagundi, 200, 206, 213

Sampson, Abbot, 101

Sanborn, F. B., 314

Sand, Georges, 429

Sargent, John O., 453

Satanstoe, 235

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 58

Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 382

Scollay, Priscilla, 260

Scott, Sir Walter, 28, 30, 47, 111, 120, 129, 171, 200, 216, 220, 371

Scout, The, 133

Scudder, H. E., 465

Sedgwick, Catherine M., 241

——, Henry M., 241

——, Theodore, Jr., 241

Self-Portraiture in the Work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 446, 448

Seventh of March Speech, The, 313, 314, 367, 368

Sewall, Jonathan, 351

——, Joseph, 276

——, Samuel, 364, 446

Seward, William Henry, 107

Shakespeare, 47, 129, 130

Shaw, Elizabeth, 259

Shays, Daniel, 276, 282, 284, 297, 340

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 111, 259, 381, 453

Shooting Match, The, 172

Shoshonee Valley, The, 163

Sibley, J. L., 467

Sidney, Algernon, 354, 420

“Sidney, Edward William,” 36

Simms, William Gilmore, ii, 37, 39, 47, 53, 54, 102, 110, 112, 125–136, 169, 190, 232, 474

Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee, 173, 175, 176, 177

Skipper Ireson’s Ride, 370

Slavery, 333, 335

Slavery in Massachusetts, 412

Social Destiny of Mankind, The, 251

Socrates, 427

Solomon, 264, 265

Song, The, 172

Songs of Labor, 370

Sotheran, Charles, 254 n

South Atlantic Quarterly, The, 102 n

Southern Plantation, The, 102 n

Southern Quarterly Review, The, 39

Southern Review, The, 112, 114

Smith, Adam, vii, 3, 121, 241, 242, 243, 308, 400

——, Gerrit, 351, 359, 365

Smollett, Tobias, 128

Snowbound, 370

Sparks, Rev. Jared, 330, 367, 437

Spectator, The, 31

Speech on the Compromise Measures, 313

Speech at New Haven, 154

Speech at Springfield, 157, 159

Speech in Wall Street, 309 n

Spinoza, 264

Spirit of the Sub-Treasury, 122

Spotswood, Governor Alexander, 7, 45

Staël, Madame de, 381

Stansbury, Joseph, 186

Stanton, Theodore, 438 n

State Rights Sentinel, The, 171

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 200, 238

Stephen, Leslie, 461, 469

Stephens, Alexander H., 39, 56, 62, 64, 65, 69, 82–93, 94, 167, 302, 473

Sterne, Lawrence, 31, 33, 35

Stiles, Rev. Ezra, 199

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 200, 238

Story, Joseph, 83, 88, 93, 117, 197, 260, 297, 300–303, 304, 311

——, W. W., 301

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 107, 314, 371–378, 428

Stranger in America, The, 95

Strauss, David Friedrich, 417

Stuart, Moses, 367

Studies in Psychology, 446

Sullivan’s Island, 114

Sumner, Charles, 106, 351

Swallow Barn, 28, 41, 50, 51, 52, 172, 377

Swift, Jonathan, 228, 453

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 436, 466

Swinton, Mary, 115

Taine, Hippolyte, 466

Tandy, Jeannette Reid, 102

Tappan, Arthur, 351

——, Lewis, 351, 362

Tariff, The, 308 n

Taylor, John of Caroline, ii, 14–19, 20, 21, 29, 61, 90, 122, 123, 150, 153, 170, 217, 277, 299, 336

——, Zachary, 71

Tempora Mutantur, 470

Tent on the Beach, The, 369

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 47, 54

Thanatopsis, 239

Thirty Years’ View, 14, 151

Thomas Carlyle and his Works, 413

Thoreau, Henry David, 156, 258, 264, 266, 314, 319, 367, 389, 394, 400–413, 426, 433, 440, 449, 451, 458, 460

Thornton, W. T., 241

Ticknor, George, 116, 367, 437

Timothy Flint, Pioneer, Missionary, Author, Editor, 140, 141

Toombs, Robert, 39, 62, 86, 91

Tocqueville, Alexis de, vi

Tour of the Prairies, A, 211

Transcendentalism in New England, 348, 379, 380, 381

Transcendentalist, The, 384, 385

Transient and Permanent in Christianity, On the, 338

Treatise on True Virtue, A, 372

Trent, Professor William Peterfield, 39, 131

Tribune, The, 248, 249, 250, 251, 253, 254, 255

Tristram Shandy, 31, 47

Trollope, Mrs., 215

Tucker, Henry St. George, 299

——, Nathaniel Beverley, ii, 35–40, 41, 42, 47, 57, 119

Tuckerman, Henry T., 48, 238

Turner, J. M. W., 407

——, Nat, 355

Twain, Mark, 159, 172, 259, 366

Tweed, “Boss,” 471

Tyler, President John, 8, 116

Typee, 261

Ulpian, 117

Uncle Robin in his Cabin in Virginia and Tom without one in Boston, 102

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 102, 376, 377, 441

Unitarian Christianity most Favorable to Piety, 330–331

Van Buren, Martin, 36, 55, 197, 203, 207, 217, 246

Vanderbilt, Commodore, 231, 474

Van Doren, Carl, 133

Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 194, 195, 231

Vattel, Emrich von, 117

Virginians, The, 54

Voet, 117

Voltaire, 382

Vote Yourself a Farm, 254

Waddell, Dr. Moses, 168

Wade, John Donald, 169, 170, 177 n

Walden, 400, 403, 405, 406, 407, 408, 413

Walker, Nathaniel, 327

——, Williston, 324, 324 n

Ware, Norman, 141

Washington, George, 7–8, 21, 48, 159, 194, 211, 265, 291, 292, 300, 301, 356, 437

Waverley Novels, 216

Weaver, Raymond, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265

Webster Address, 424

Webster, Daniel, 37, 67, 69, 88, 90, 94, 116, 122, 144, 159, 177, 207 n, 227, 242, 246, 252, 278, 298, 299, 300, 301, 304–316, 317, 330, 335, 359, 367, 368, 387, 397, 398, 399, 412, 424, 458

Weed, Thurlow, 197

Week, The, 404, 406

Weems, “Parson,” 437

Weiss, John, 347, 412, 417 n, 422 n

Weld, Isaac, 215

Welles, Gideon, 64

Wendell, Barrett, 416 n, 427

Wertenbaker, Thomas J., 7, 8

Western Monthly Magazine, The, 164

Western Souvenir, The; A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for 1829, 164

Westward Ho!, 162, 163, 217, 220

Wette, Wilhelm Martin de, 417

Wharton, Edith, 435

White Jacket, 262

White, Maria, 351, 463, 465

Whitman, Walt, 127, 183, 222, 244, 264, 265, 366, 367

Whittier, John G., 244, 314, 315, 319, 351, 352, 359, 361–370, 377

——, Robert, 364

Wieland, 190

Wilderness and the War-Path, The, 165

Willard, President, 292

William IV, King, 452

William Ellery Channing, 330, 338

William Gilmore Simms, Life of, 39

Williams, Roger, 97, 327, 345, 379, 399

Willing, Mrs., 207 n

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 200, 202, 238

Wilson, Henry, 469

Windsor Forest, 114

Winthrop, John, 124

——, Robert C., 47, 49

Wirt, William, 29, 30–35, 47, 48, 49, 56, 169

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 188, 189, 242, 331, 430, 432

Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 432

Woodcraft, 131, 134

Woods, Leonard, 367

Woolsey, Theodore, 94

Wordsworth, William, 111, 381, 389, 453, 466

Working Man’s Advocate, The, 254

World’s Fair, The, 470

Wright, Fannie, 242, 244, 428

——, Henry C., 343, 358

Wyandotté, 235

Wythe, George, 25, 29, 142, 143

Yates, Robert, 72

Yemassee, The, 134, 135

Young, Edward, 31, 111, 254

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