CONTENTS

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[A Sketch of the Life of James Russell Lowell.]
[I. Elmwood]	v
[II. Education]	ix
[III. First Ventures]	xi
[IV. Verse and Prose]	xiv
[V. Public Life]	xvi
[Introductory Note]	1
[The Vision of Sir Launfal]	4
[Prelude to Part First]	4
[Part First]	7
[Prelude to Part Second]	10
[Part Second]	12
[Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration]	16
[On Board the '76]	31
[An Indian-Summer Reverie]	34
[The First Snow-Fall]	45
[The Oak]	47
[Prometheus]	49
[To W.L. Garrison]	61
[Wendell Phillips]	63
[Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly]	63
[Villa Franca]	70
[The Nightingale in the Study]	73
[Aladdin]	76
[Beaver Brook]	76
[The Shepherd of King Admetus]	78
[The Present Crisis]	80
[Al Fresco]	87
[The Foot-Path]	90

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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[James Russell Lowell (from a crayon by William Page in 1842, owned by Mrs. Charles F. Briggs, Brooklyn, N. Y.)]	Frontispiece
[Elmwood, Mr. Lowell's home in Cambridge]	vi
[As Sir Launfal made morn through the darksome gate]	10
[So he mused, as he sat, of a sunnier clime]	14
[The Seal of Harvard University]	30