Congregations in New England,

123, 126,
See Hart-

239-240, 246.
Connecticut, 78, 83, 110,
329, 332, 352, 353, 407.
ford, New Haven.
Conservatism in America, 527; in
New England, 243, 259, 302, 326-
327, 343-346, 350, 356, 371, 442;
in the South, 482-483, 487; in
England, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68,
139-141.

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, 111 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 liter-
ature, 189, 217, 477-479-
Declaration of Independence, 76, 93,
106, 113, 115, 275, 437, 485.
Decline of New England, 436-446,

His

453.
Defoe, Daniel, 20, 65, 66, 112.
"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 Let-
ters 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, 322-
323, 525, 526; within America, 151,
351, 484, 505.

Divinity School at Cambridge, 314.
Dobson, Austin, 415.
"Dooley, Mr.," 173.

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 195-196.
Drama, the, 214; in America, 157–
158, 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 Har-
vard College, 43, 240.
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, his
"Cyclopedia of American Litera-
ture," 195, 208, 462.

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, 475-

477-

Education, Development of, in
America, 235, 253-254, 258, 260-
261, 262, 264-266, 271, 306, 329-
330, 394-395. See Classics, Har-
vard, 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, Litera-
ture, 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, Excel-
lence, 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, 284-
285, 341; W. G. Clark, 220;
Crèvecœur, 114-115; Drake, 196;
Dunlap, 158; Dwight, 120-123;
Edwards, 84-89; Emerson, 253-
254, 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, 222-
223, 411-415, 419-422, 438, 444;
Hopkinson, 113-114; Irving, 172,
175-176; Lanier, 496-498; Long-
fellow, 387-389, 391-392; Lowell,

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 Litera-

ture, 5, 167, 190; in English Liter-
ature, 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 Revo-
lution, 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 news-
paper, 173, 508.

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

French and Indian Wars, 73, 274.
Freneau, Philip, 130-135, 136.
Fruitlands, Community at, 331, 333.
Fuller, 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 de-
votion 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, 454-
Godwin, 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.

124, 127, 360.

Hartford Wits, the, 119-130, 135,
136, 157.

Harvard College, 26, 42-43, 44, 46,
47, 48, 50, 75, 78, 79, 83, 93, 94,
119, 120, 122, 129, 224, 235, 240,
253, 255, 260, 261, 262, 264-265,
267, 269, 271, 272, 273, 281, 288,
311, 332, 346, 348, 350, 379-380,
381, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398, 404,
407, 408, 412-415, 443-445, 480.
Haverhill, Massachusetts, 358, 360.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 425-435, 163,
168, 176, 206, 240, 306, 308, 328,
376, 377, 379, 438, 445, 471, 477,
489, 516, 528.

Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 486, 490-

492, 499.

Hayne, Robert Young, 252, 485, 490.
Henry, Patrick, 112, 120.
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 19, 32.
Herndon's Life of Lincoln, 503.
Hildreth, Richard, 272.
Historical Continuity, 18, 29.
Historical literature in America, 31,
36, 42, 43, 78, 81, 119, 136, 171-
173, 178-179, 245, 263-276, 338,
378, 486, 528; in England, 37,
119, 275

History, American, of the Seven-

teenth Century, 26-34; 42, 55, 70,
77, 357, 523; of the Eighteenth
Century, 70-77, 524; of the Nine-
teenth Century, 149-153, 357, 525-
526; in general, 530.

History, English, of the Seventeenth

Century, 13-19, 20, 29, 55, 357,

522; of the Eighteenth Century,
59-64, 524; of the Nineteenth
Century, 139-144, 525.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 438.
Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 208, 220.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 459-461.
Hollis Professorship at Harvard
College, 281.

Hollis Street Church in Boston,
442.

Holmes, Abiel, 288, 407.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 407-424;
65, 206, 221, 222, 229, 239, 376,
377, 425, 426, 430, 443, 489, 508-
509, 511, 528; his Autocrat,"
241, 444; his "Mortal Antipathy,"
222; his memoir of Motley, 437-
438; his "One Hoss Shay," 90-

91.

66

"Home Journal," the, 226.
Hooker, Richard, 4, 22, 37.
Hooker, Thomas, 26, 84.
Hopkinson, Francis, 112-115, 175,
his "Battle of the Keys," 508.
"Hudibras," see Butler.
Human Nature, opposing views
concerning; see Calvinism, Revo-
lutionary Spirit, Unitarianism.
Humanism in New England, 406.
Humanity of Classical Literature,
315-316. See Popularity.
Hume, David, 66, 67.

Humor, American, 101, 173, 179,
507-513, 515, 518.

Hunt, Leigh, 174, 224, 228.
Hunt, William Morris, 438.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 77, 110, 120,
260; his "History of Massachu-
setts," 82, 263.

IDEALISM in America, 293-294,

304, 310, 319-323, 371-372, 417,
432, 524, 525, 529. See Mystery,
Puritanism.

Ideals, American devotion to Ab-
stract, see Abstract Principles.
Ideals, the National, of England and
America, 8, 14, 18, 28, 46, 70, 82,

106, 190, 246, 521-530. See Bible,

Democracy,

Law, Right and

Rights, Union.
Imitativeness in American Writings,
38, 41, 54, 119, 130, 135, 162, 167,
170, 173, 181, 184, 196, 224, 228,
247, 253, 258-259, 262, 272, 372,
386-387, 391, 480-481, 483, 489,
491. See Style.

Independence, Declaration of, see
Declaration.

India, the Empire of, 62, 142, 143.
Indians, American, 31, 32, 73, 186,
274, 505.

Individualism, Growth of, in New
England, 327, 330, 442-444. See
Alcott, Emerson, Thoreau, Trans-
cendentalism, Unitarianism.
Inexperience, the National of Amer-
ica, 34, 37, 55, 77, 116, 130, 136,
153, 218, 279, 287, 327, 359, 362,
384-385, 424, 446, 529. See Den-
sity, Retardation.
Innate ideas, 294, 300, 304.
Instrument of Government, the, 18, 28.
Insularity of Modern England, 62,
64, 69, 139–140. See John Bull.
Irving, Washington, 169-180; 168,
181, 184, 185, 189, 190, 191, 194,
195, 201, 203, 221, 228, 229, 230,
271, 276, 280, 290, 328, 432, 433,
449, 462, 477, 509, 511, 516, 527.
Isabella II., Queen, 169.

Jonson, Ben, 20, 25.
Journalism in America, see News-
papers.

KEATS, John, 134, 145, 193, 195,
526.

Kennedy, John Pendleton, 486.
King's Chapel, in Boston, 105,
121-122, 178, 288; its "Liturgy,"
281.

Kipling, Rudyard, 147, 516.
Kirkland, Caroline Matilda, 208,
229, 501-503.
"Knickerbocker Gallery," 237, 466.
"Knickerbocker Magazine," 374,
386, 459, 514.

"Knickerbocker School," the, 219-
230; 280, 309, 338, 449, 465, 487,
513.

LAFAYETTE, 115-116.

Lamb, Charles, 67, 69.

Landor, Walter Savage, 67, 69,

197.

Language and Nationality, 3, 8, 18,
28, 82, 106, 521. See Ideals.
Language, the English, 3, 8.
Lanier, Sidney, 481, 486, 491, 495–
499.

Larcom, Lucy, 237.

Law, the English or Common, 8, 14,
17, 18, 19, 30, 46, 61, 62, 63, 64, 70,
74, 82, 106, 108, 109, 116, 142–144,
150, 190, 246, 274, 292, 298, 325,
340, 373, 467, 521-522, 524, 530.
Law, the Profession of, in America,
236, 246, 248-249, 251, 258, 260,
274, 348, 350, 378, 408, 415, 441;
American Men of Letters as Stu-
dents of, 169, 194, 264, 380, 393,
408, 458, 485, 486, 487, 488, 491,
495.
Lectures in America, 247, 313, 314,

315, 317, 325, 330, 456, 459, 511.
Lee, Robert Edward, 151.
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 222.
Lewis, "Monk,” 67, 68, 160, 163.