F. B. S.

Concord, Mass., October 8, 1909.


[CONTENTS.]

CHAPTER I.Page
Birth and Family[1]
CHAPTER II.
Childhood and Youth[32]
CHAPTER III.
Concord and its Famous People[63]
CHAPTER IV.
The Embattled Farmers[97]
CHAPTER V.
The Transcendental Period[124]
CHAPTER VI.
Early Essays in Authorship[148]
CHAPTER VII.
Friends and Companions[174]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Walden Hermitage[201]
CHAPTER IX.
Horace in the Role of Mæcenas[216]
CHAPTER X.
In Wood and Field[242]
CHAPTER XI.
Personal Traits and Social Life[261]
CHAPTER XII.
Poet, Moralist, and Philosopher[284]
CHAPTER XIII.
Life, Death, and Immortality[297]

HENRY D. THOREAU.