Abbott, John S. C., 378.
Absolute Truth, devotion to, in New
England, 238, 240, 241, 244, 294,
297, 299, 309, 446, 523, 524, 529.
Abstract Principles, American De-
votion to, 63, 109-110, 115-116,
523, 525. See Revolution, in
general; Right and Rights.
Adams, Charles Francis, 438.
Adams, Henry, his "History of the
United States," 117, 149.
Adams, John, 7, 76, 117, 120, 247-
248, 260, 437.

Adams, John Quincy, 437.
Adams, Samuel, 77, 120, 247, 260.
Addison, Joseph, 40, 65, 66, 68, 69,

95, 101, 136, 167, 248, 484, 524.
Africans, Native, 342, 482. See
Slavery.

Agassiz, Louis, 376, 438.
Ainsworth, Harrison, 211.
Albany, New York, 451.
Albemarle, George Monk, Duke of,
19, 32.

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 328-332; 302,

303, 333, 337, 372.
Alcott, Louisa May, her "Little
Women," 237, 337.
Alertness of Mind, as a national
trait, 22, 100,

Almanacs in America, 36, 79.
America, defined, 6. See History,
Literature, National Traits, United
States.

America, Literary History of, 6, 9,

10, 521-530.

American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 261, 262.

"American Brag," 160, 445.
American Philosophical Society, 79,
93, 261.

Ames, Fisher, 120, 248.
Anarchy, 478.

Andover Theological Seminary, 192,
282, 415; Phillips Academy, 224,
348, 408.

Andrew, John Albion, 438.

Anne, Queen, 59, 65, 66, 67, 68, 119,
484, 524.

Anniversary Week in Boston, 420.
Anthology Club in Boston, 261, 291.
Antiquity, American delight in, 178,
271, 432.

Antislavery Movement, 339-357;
80, 131, 304, 305, 338, 369, 387-
389, 401. See Reformers, Whit-

tier.

Appleton, Thomas Gold, 438-439.
Aristocracy, tacit in New England,
71-73, 76, 235, 237, 242, 352, 356.
Armada, the Invincible, 26.
Arnold, Matthew, 526, 528.
Artistic Conscience of Americans,
177, 179, 217-218, 432-434, 477,
517, 527, 529.

Artistic Expression in the history of
peoples, 462.

Artistic Temperament, 427-428, 430,
433. 471.

Assimilation, American power of, 28,
70, 77, 523.
"Atlantic Monthly," the, 370-377;
229, 378, 404, 410, 417, 436, 443-
444, 449, 453.

Audubon, John James, 486.
Augustine, Saint, 16, 17, 89, 279, 298.
Austen, Jane, 193.

Australia, 104, 143.

BACON, Francis, 4, 22, 32, 37, 77.
Baltimore, 205, 233, 267, 284, 481.
Bancroft, George, 271–272.
Barlow, Joel, 126–128; 123, 129, 165.
Barnum, P. T., 511.

Bartlet, Phebe, 87-88.
Bartlett, Sidney, 415.
Bay Psalm Book, 36-38.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 22, 25, 298.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 353.
Beecher, Lyman, 352–353.
Beers, Henry Augustin, his Life of
Willis, 226.

Bellows Falls, Vermont, 157.
Bethlehem, the Moravians of, 72.
Bible, the English, 5, 8, 16, 22, 30,
38, 46, 47, 70, 82, 190, 246, 248, 283,
292, 298, 373, 521.
Bible, Eliot's Indian, 51.
Bishoprics proposed in the American
Colonies, III.

Blackstone's "Commentaries," 76,
118.

Blenheim, Battle of, 60, 61.
"Bohemia" in America, 206, 229,
516-517.

Boone, Daniel, 500.

Boston, 26, 47, 55, 71, 76, 78, 92, 94,

95, 105, 120, 121, 122, 124, 193, 194,
201, 204, 223-225, 229, 233-234,
236, 237, 240-248, 253, 261-262,
264-266, 271, 275, 281, 287, 291,
292, 295, 297, 311, 317, 329, 351,
352, 353, 357, 360, 365, 370, 374,
375, 376, 389, 393, 402, 407-410,
412, 415, 416, 418, 420, 423, 426,
436-440, 450, 451, 453-454, 505.
Boston Athenæum, 261, 262, 291.
Boston Museum, 247.

Boston Public Library, 265-266.
Bowdoin College, 354, 378-380, 425,

British Classics published in Amer-
ica, 157.

Brook Farm, 305-309; 304, 324, 331,
333, 426, 429, 455.

Brooklyn, New York, 353, 465, 472,
478-479.

Brooks, Phillips, Bishop of Massa-
chusetts, 122, 287, 438, 439, 443.
Brooks, Preston, his assault on Sum-
ner, 351, 483.

Brown, Charles Brockden, 157-168;
169, 175, 181, 184, 185, 189, 190,
192, 194, 203, 219, 228, 230, 269,
280, 290, 335, 374, 432, 433, 449,
488, 527.

Browne, Charles Farrar, 511.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 23.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 147,
209, 526, 528.

Browning, Robert, 147, 475-476, 526,
528.

Bryant, William Cullen, 192–203;

204, 205, 206, 207, 219, 221, 228,
229, 230, 244, 280, 288, 290, 338,
360, 433, 449, 527; his Transla-
tions from the Spanish, 391, 394.
Bulwer-Lytton, 161, 228.
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 76, 247, 250.
Monument, 250, 403.

Bunner, Henry Cuyler, 461.
Bunyan, John, 20, 40.

Burke, Edmund, 65, 67, 68, 69, 76,
77, 108, 141, 524.

Burns, Robert, 67, 68, 119, 123, 136,
524.

Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy,"
23, 54, 400.

Butler, Samuel, 126, 400. His "Hu-
dibras," 38, 40, 124, 125, 126.
Byles, Mather, 442.

Byrd, William, 484.

Byron, Lord, 145, 146, 174, 192, 196,
526, 527.

CABOT, James Elliot, his Life

of Emerson, 309-310, 431.
Cairns, W. B., his monograph on
American Literature, 219.
Calhoun, John Caldwell, 485.