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.

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,

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.

Calvin, 14, 16, 89, 279. Calvinism, summarized, 15, 16; in New England, 28, 34-40, 74, 80, 81, 84-91, 103, 121, 122, 180, 224, 238, 240, 241, 277, 280-283, 286, 287, 353, 359, 372, 385, 400, 407, 408, 409, 414, 418-423, 523, 528. See Puritanism. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 71, 381, 393, 395, 396. Church of, 52, 288, 407. See Harvard College. Campbell, Thomas, 132, 134, 196. Canada, 30, 62, 73, 104, 105, 142, 143.

Carlyle, Thomas, 147, 206, 272, 296,

313, 475-476, 526, 528. Centuries, in American history, 6–7; in general: the Seventeenth, 1355, 136, 522-523; the Eighteenth, 59-136; 30, 357, 417, 423, 524-525; the Nineteenth, 139–154, 518, 525530. See History, Literature.

Choate, Rufus, 106, 257, 371, 439, 485.

Church of England, see Episcopal.
Church and State in America, 70, 83.
See Theocracy.
Churchill, Charles, 119.
Cincinnati, 353.

Civil War, the American, 73, 104,

105, 151-152, 256, 351, 357, 365366, 368, 378, 398, 440, 450, 459, 461, 463, 466, 474, 478, 480, 481, 484, 487, 488, 489-499, 503, 511,

513, 514.

Civil Wars of England, 17, 18, 23,

29, 104, 107, 112, 346, 522. Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 208, 220-223, 226.

Clarke, James Freeman, 438. Class of 1829 at Harvard, 408, 414. Classical Temper in American Writings, 201, 315-316, 431, 432. Classics, study and influence of, in America, 247, 253-254, 257, 258259, 260, 274, 292, 298, 325, 373, 483.

Clay, Henry, 485, 486.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 513. Clergy of New England, 71, 72, 75, 83, 235, 238-240, 246, 247, 258, 260, 281, 287, 292, 308, 311, 318, 325, 347, 439, 441-442, 465. See Orthodoxy, Puritanism, Theocracy, Unitarianism.

Cleveland, Ohio, 511, 512.

Coats of Arms, in New England, 71, 243.

Coleman, Benjamin, 442.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 67, 69, 145, 146, 193, 296, 526, 527. Columbia College, 79, 461, 480. Commerce of New England, 244 425, 440.

Common-sense in American Men of Letters, 98-101, 324-325, 328, 471, 527. Commonwealth, the English, 13, 20, 21, 29, 42, 483, 523. See Cromwell. Concord, Massachusetts, 328-338; 76, 315, 317, 403, 426, 429.

Constitution, the English, 16, 18, 19,

33, 140-141. See Reform Bill. Constitution of the United States, 6, 29, 76, 93, 118, 149, 345, 346, 359, 366, 502.

Cooke, John Esten, 486, 487.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 181-191 ;

176, 194, 203, 207, 228, 230, 280,
290, 338, 449, 462, 488, 489, 500,
527.

Cooperstown, New York, 181, 182, 187.

"

Copley, John Singleton, 71, 76, 240–

242.

Copperheads," 459, 512.

Cotton, John, 26, 32, 42, 44, 235, 288,

311. John, the younger, 240. Cowper, William, 67, 201, 228, 508. Crèvecœur, 114, 115. Criticism, Literary, in America, 187,

208-211, 400-401, 438, 458, 507. Cromwell, Oliver, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19,

21, 24, 29, 31, 53, 107, 523. Cross, Dr. Arthur Lyons, 11I n. "Culture" in New England, 373. Curtis, George William, 222, 229, 309, 455.

Custom, see Law, Rights.

DANA, Charles Anderson, 305, 308, 455.

Dana, Richard Henry, 194.
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 438.
Dartmouth College, 248, 257, 264,
408.

Darwin, Charles, 148.
Davies, Sir John, 41.

"Decadence," in contemporary literature, 189, 217, 477-479Declaration of Independence, 76, 93, 106, 113, 115, 275, 437, 485. Decline of New England, 436-446, 453.

Defoe, Daniel, 20, 65, 66, 112. His "Robinson Crusoe," 387. Democracy in America, 108, 203, 235, 236, 359, 362, 481, 509, 527-530; compared with European, 467-471, 529; in England, 148, 525, 527; imperial, 525. See Aristocracy, Equality, Excellence, Liberty. Density of population, in its effect on character and history, 17, 33, 89, 152, 278, 281, 306, 384, 463, 529. See Inexperience, Retardation. De Quincey, Thomas, 161, 193, 376. Derby, George Horatio, 510. Description, in American fiction,

164-166, 175, 186, 189, 354, 488. "Dial," the, 300-305; 298, 308, 318, 330, 342, 347, 370, 373, 436, 443, 453.

"Dial," the Chicago, 507. Dialect in American Writings, 401,

402, 477, 511-513. Dialogue, as a literary form, 483-484. Dicey, A. V., 18 n.

Dickens, Charles, 147, 171, 176, 206, 502, 526, 528.

Diplomacy, American Men of Letters in. See Everett, Irving, Lowell, Motley, Taylor, Willis. Disraeli, Benjamin, 228.

Dissenters, English, 224, 288. See Methodism.

Distinction, Personal, of American Men of Letters, 201-202, 203, 229, 289, 315, 338, 509. Disunion of National Temper, of America and England, 9, 105-116, 150, 153, 175, 182, 185, 187, 322323, 525, 526; within America, 151, 351, 484, 505.

Divinity School at Cambridge, 314. Dobson, Austin, 415.

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 195-196. Drama, the, 214; in America, 157158, 204, 247, 301, 355, 517–518; in England, 20, 23, 24, 298, 302. Dryden, John, 20, 21, 24, 25, 37, 38, 40, 42, 54, 55, 65, 68, 69, 136, 484, 523.

Dudley, Joseph, 41, 357.
Dudley, Thomas, 26, 32, 40.
Dunlap, William, 158. His Life of

Brockden Brown, 158-160. Dunster, Henry, President of Harvard College, 43, 240. Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, his "Cyclopedia of American Literature," 195, 208, 462.

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Dwight, John Sullivan, 305, 309, 438. Dwight, Timothy, 120-123, 124, 129, 181, 352.

EAST RIVER, the, 465, 472, 478. Eaton, Theophilus, 50, 51. Eccentricity in Literature, 466, 475477.

Education, Development of, in America, 235, 253-254, 258, 260261, 262, 264-266, 271, 306, 329330, 394-395. See Classics, Harvard, Law, Modern Languages, Smith Professorship, Theology, Yale, etc.

Edwards, Jonathan, 83-91; 78, 80,

92, 93, 95, 99, 102, 103, 120, 136, 180, 240, 280, 285, 419, 422. Election, the doctrine of, 15, 48, 49, 52, 84, 87-89, 100, 238, 239, 240, 279. See Calvinism.

Eliot, George, 147, 154, 176, 526, 528. Eliot, John, 32, 37, 51.

Elizabeth, Queen, 13, 21, 25, 26, 31,

32, 53, 55, 59, 60, 65, 77, 126. Elizabethan England, see National Traits.

Ellsler, Fanny, 209-210, 301. Emancipation Proclamation, 356. Embargo, Jefferson's, 193, 244, 429. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 311-327;

122, 206, 253-255, 260, 298, 300,

301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 308, 310, 328, 332, 335, 336, 337, 338, 371, 372, 373, 376, 379, 395, 412, 425, 426, 430, 432, 437, 438, 445, 469, 485, 489, 528.

Empire, the course of, 8-9, 30, 62, 106, 108, 142-144, 149-153, 525. England, see History, Law, Literature, National Traits. Enthusiasm, see National Traits. Episcopal Church, the Protestant, of the United States, 79, 110, III, 121, 184, 347, 442.

Equality, the Ideal of, 362, 468–469, 474, 529. See Democracy, Excellence, Right and Rights.

Essays, English, 67, 118, 174; in America, 120, 124, 170, 317, 417, 460, 498.

Essex, Earl of, 18, 32. "Evening Post," the New York, 193, 196, 198, 230, 449. Everett, Edward, 253-257; 170, 260, 264, 271, 280, 291, 311, 371, 437, 439, 485. Evolution, philosophy of, 16, 293, 339.

Excellence, the Ideal of, 467-469, 471, 528, 530. See Democracy. Expansion of the United States, 149. Extracts from American writings: Barlow, 127-128; Bay Psalm Book, 37-38; Anne Bradstreet, 40-41; Brockden Brown, 162, 164; Bryant, 197-200; Channing, 277-278, 284285, 341; W. G. Clark, 220; Crèvecœur, 114-115; Drake, 196; Dunlap, 158; Dwight, 120-123; Edwards, 84-89; Emerson, 253254, 298, 312-314, 316, 320-324; Everett, 256-257; Fields, 375; Franklin, 94-99, 101-102; Freneau, 131-133; Halleck, 196; Hartford Wits, 128-129; P. H. Hayne, 492; Holland, 460; Holmes, 90-91, 222223, 411-415, 419-422, 438, 444; Hopkinson, 113-114; Irving, 172, 175-176; Lanier, 496-498; Longfellow, 387-389, 391-392; Lowell,

186, 199, 339-340, 399, 402-403, 405; C. Mather, 44, 49, 51-52; Otis, 108-109; Poe, 209-210, 212216; Stedman, 385; B. Taylor, 457; Thoreau, 335-336; F. O. Ticknor, 489-498; Timrod, 493-494; Trumbull, 124-126; Webster, 250252; Whittier, 361-369; Whitman, 470-475; Wigglesworth, 39-40; Willis, 223, 227; Woolman, 8081.

FAMILY Discipline in New England, 237.

Faneuil Hall in Boston, 255, 349. Fashion in Boston, 225, 288. "Federalist," the, 118, 120, 135, 136. Felton, Cornelius Conway, 438, 439. Fiction, in the Evolution of Literature, 5, 167, 190; in English Literature, 66, 68, 90, 147-148, 160-161, 176, 430-431, 477, 526-527; in America, 163-168, 179, 181-192, 271, 272, 354-356, 417, 426, 460– | 461, 486, 487, 488-489, 498. See Short Stories.

Fielding, Henry, 66, 68, 160, 171. Fields, James Thomas, 375-377; 222, 438, 443-444

Fine Arts, the, 5, 296, 385, 416, 476, 510.

First church of Boston, 42, 288, 311.
Fontenoy, Battle of, 60, 61.
Forbes, John Murray, 438, 439.
Form, Sense of, in American Writers,
166-167. See Artistic Conscience.
Fourier, 306-308.

Foxe, John, 26.

France, as enemy of England, 29–31, 60-63, 73-74, 272; as friend of America, 63, 115, 150. See Revolution, Revolutionary Spirit. "Frankenstein," Mrs. Shelley's, 161, 193.

Franklin, Benjamin, 92-103; 79, 82,

120, 136, 173, 233, 245, 268, 437, 509; his Letter to a London newspaper, 173, 508.

"Fraser's Magazine," 187. Freeman, James, 121-122, 281. "Freeman's Oath," 36.

French and Indian Wars, 73, 274Freneau, Philip, 130-135, 136. Fruitlands, Community at, 331, 333Fuller, Sarah Margaret, 300-301;

208, 229, 302, 304-306, 308, 331, 371, 386, 455

Fuller, Thomas, 20, 23, 38, 54.

GARRISON, William Lloyd, 342– 343, 348, 360.

Gayarré, Charles Étienne, 486. Genealogy, American delight in, 264.

General Principles, American devotion to, see Abstract Principles. George I., 59.

George II., 54, 59, 66, 68, 74, 75, 79, 524.

George III., 59, 60, 62, 105, 116, 126, 131, 139. George IV., 139.

Georgia, 74, 481, 483, 484, 486, 489, 491, 492, 495

German Learning, Influence of, in New England, 253, 264, 267, 268, 271, 272, 275, 295-296.

Gibbon, Edward, 67, 268, 275–276. "Godey's Lady's Book," 204, 207,

219.

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 439, 454Godwin, Parke, 194.

Godwin, William, 67, 68, 160-162, 163, 184, 228, 488.

Goethe, Taylor's translation of, 456, 458.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 66, 160, 171, 173,
174, 184, 228, 276.
Gray, Thomas, 66, 200.

Great Awakening, the, 74-76, 110.
See Whitefield.

Greeley, Horace, 454-455; 229, 300, 308.

Greenfield, Connecticut, 121, 123. Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 195, 199, 208, 455, 462.