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Bacchus, Emerson, [129].
Ballad of the French Fleet, A, Longfellow, [155].
Bancroft, George, [89], [176], [177]-[178].
Barefoot Boy, The, Whittier, [158].
Bartol, C. A., [115].
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Howe, [224], [225].
Battle of the Kegs, The, Hopkinson, [69].
Bay Psalm Book, [35].
Beecher, H. W., [216]-[217].
Belfry of Bruges, The, Longfellow, [156].
Bells, The, Poe, [5]-[6], [192].
Biglow Papers, The, Lowell, [170], [172], [173].
Black Cat, The, Poe, [194].
Blaine, J. G., quoted, [163].
Blithedale Romance, The, Hawthorne, [145]-[146], [150]-[151].
Boston News-Letter, [60].
Boy's Town, A, Howells, [250].
Bracebridge Hall, Irving, [91].
Bradford, William, [28].
Bradstreet, Anne, [36]-[37].
Bridge, The, Longfellow, [156].
Briggs, C. F., quoted, [190].
Brook Farm, [140], [143].
Brooklyn Eagle, The, [199].
Brown, Alice, [249], [250].
Brown University, [62].
Brownell, H. H., [225].
Brownson, Orestes, [141].
Bryant, W. C., one of the Knickerbocker Group, [89]; personal appearance, [101]; life and, writings, [101]-[106]; died (1878), [255].
"Buffalo Bill," see Cody, W. F.
Building of the Ship, The, Longfellow, [155].
Burroughs, John, [262].
By Blue Ontario's Shore, Whitman, [204].
Byrd, William, [44].