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Adams, C. F, [7].
Adams, John, opinion of American independence, [11]-[12]; as a writer, [73].
Adams, Samuel, [73]-[74], [209].
After the Burial, Lowell, [172].
Agassiz, Fiftieth Birthday of, Longfellow, [156].
Age of Reason, Paine, [75].
Ages, The, Bryant, [104].
Alcott, Bronson, [118], [119], [139]-[140].
Aldrich, T. B., [256]-[257].
Alhambra, The, Irving, [91].
Allen, J. L., [247].
American Anthology, Stedman, [256].
American characteristics, [3]-[5].
American colonies, literature in the 17th century, [25]-[42]; journalism, [60]-[62]; education, [62]-[63]; science, [63]-[64]; bibliography of the literature, [269]-[270].
American colonists, predominantly English, [12]-[25]; motives for emigration, [16]; moulded by pioneer life, [17]-[23]; in 1760, [59]-[60].
"American idea," [206]-[207].
American life since the Civil War, [234] et seq.
American literature, the term, [6].
American Mercury, [61].
American Scholar, The, Emerson, [123].
Ames, Fisher, [88].
Among my Books, Lowell, [170].
Andrew Rykman's Prayer, Whittier, [161].
Annabel Lee, Poe, [192].
Anthologies, American, [269].
Arsenal at Springfield, The, Longfellow, [156].
Assignation, The, Poe, [193].
Astoria, Irving, [91].
Atala, Châteaubriand, [96].
Atlantic Monthly, [161], [167], [170], [250], [257].
Autobiography, Franklin, [58]-[59].
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, Holmes, [164], [167].