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| [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]—(Born in 1807, died in 1882.) |
| | [Musings in Père Lachaise.] |
| | (From "Outre-Mer") | [3] |
| [Edgar Allan Poe]—(Born in 1809, died in 1849.) |
| I | [The Cask of Amontillado.] |
| | (Published originally in Godey's Magazine in 1846) | [11] |
| II | [Of Hawthorne and the Short Story.] |
| | (From a review of Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales" and "Mosses from an Old Manse" published in Godey's Magazine in 1846) | [19] |
| III | [Of Willis, Bryant, Halleck and Macaulay.] |
| | (Passages selected from articles printed in Volume II of the "Works of Poe") | [25] |
| [Oliver Wendell Holmes]—(Born in 1809, died in 1894.) |
| I | [Of Doctors, Lawyers and Ministers.] |
| | (From Chapter V of "The Poet at the Breakfast Table") | [31] |
| II | [Of the Genius of Emerson.] |
| | (From an address before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1882) | [36] |
| III | [The House in Which the Professor Lived.] |
| | (From Part X of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table") | [42] |
| IV | [Of Women Who Put on Airs.] |
| | (From Part XI of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table") | [49] |
| [Margaret Fuller]—(Born in 1810, lost in a shipwreck off Fire Island in 1850.) |
| I | [Her Visit to George Sand.] |
| | (From a letter to Elizabeth Hoar) | [52] |
| II | [Two Glimpses of Carlyle.] |
| | (From a letter to Emerson) | [54] |
| [Horace Greeley]—(Born in 1811, died in 1872.) |
| | [The Fatality of Self-Seeking in Editors and Authors.] |
| | (Printed with the "Miscellanies" in the "Recollections of a Busy Life") | [58] |
| [John Lothrop Motley]—(Born in 1814, died in 1877.) |
| I | [Charles V and Philip II in Brussels.] |
| | (From Chapter I of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic") | [63] |
| II | [The Arrival of the Spanish Armada.] |
| | (From Chapter XIX of the "History of the United Netherlands") | [74] |
| III | ["The Spanish Fury."] |
| | (From Part IV, Chapter V, of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic") | [84] |
| [Richard Henry Dana, the Younger]—(Born in 1815, died in 1882.) |
| | [A Fierce Gale under a Clear Sky.] |
| | (From "Two Years Before the Mast") | [93] |
| [Henry David Thoreau]—(Born in 1817, died in 1862.) |
| I | [The Building of His House at Walden Pond.] |
| | (From Chapter I of "Walden, or, Life in the Woods") | [99] |
| II | [How to Make Two Small Ends Meet.] |
| | (From Chapters I and II of "Walden") | [103] |
| III | [On Reading the Ancient Classics.] |
| | (From Chapter III of "Walden") | [115] |
| IV | [Of Society and Solitude.] |
| | (From Chapter IV of "Walden") | [120] |
| [James Russell Lowell]—(Born in 1819, died in 1891.) |
| I | [The Poet as Prophet.] |
| | (From an essay contributed to The Pioneer in 1843) | [125] |
| II | [The First of the Moderns.] |
| | (From the first essay in the first series, entitled"Among My Books") | [129] |
| III | [Of Faults Found in Shakespeare.] |
| | (From the essay entitled "Shakespeare Once More,"printed in the first series entitled "Among My Books") | [133] |
| IV | [Americans as Successors of the Dutch.] |
| | (From the essay entitled "On a CertainCondescension in Foreigners," printed in "From My Study Window") | [138] |
| [Charles A. Dana]—(Born in 1819, died in 1897.) |
| | [Greeley as a Man of Genius.] |
| | (From an article printed in the New York Sun, December 5, 1872) | [146] |
| [James Parton]—(Born in 1822, died in 1891.) |
| | [Aaron Burr and Madame Jumel.] |
| | (From his "Life of Burr") | [150] |
| [Francis Parkman]—(Born in 1823, died in 1893.) |
| I | [Champlain's Battle with the Iroquois.] |
| | (From Chapter X of "The Pioneers of Francein the New World") | [157] |
| II | [The Death of La Salle.] |
| | (From Chapter XXV of "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West") | [161] |
| III | [The Coming of Frontenac to Canada.] |
| | (From Chapters I and II of "Count Frontenac and New France") | [167] |
| IV | [The Death of Isaac Jogues.] |
| | (From Chapters XVI and XX of "The Jesuits in North America") | [171] |
| V | [Why New France Failed.] |
| | (From the Introduction to "The Pioneers of France in the New World") | [176] |
| VI | [The Return of the Coureurs-de-Bois.] |
| | (From Chapter XVIII of "The Old Régime in Canada") | [179] |
| [George William Curtis]—(Born in 1824, died in 1892.) |
| | [Our Cousin the Curate.] |
| | (From Chapter VII of "Prue and I") | [183] |
| [Artemus Ward]—(Born in 1824, died in 1867.) |
| | [Forrest as Othello.] |
| | (From "Artemus Ward, His Book") | [191] |
| [Thomas Bailey Aldrich]—(Born in 1836, died in 1908.) |
| I | [A Sunrise in Stillwater.] |
| | (From Chapter I of "The Stillwater Tragedy") | [195] |
| II | [The Fight at Slatter's Hill.] |
| | (From Chapter XIII of "The Story of a Bad Boy") | [198] |
| III | [On Returning from Europe.] |
| | (From Chapter IX of "From Ponkapog to Pesth") | [204] |
| [William Dean Howells]—(Born in 1837.) |
| | [To Albany by the Night Boat.] |
| | (From Chapter III of "The Wedding Journey") | [207] |
| [John Hay]—(Born in 1838, died in 1905.) |
| | [Lincoln's Early Fame.] |
| | (From Volume X, Chapter XVIII of "Abraham Lincoln, A History") | [211] |
| [Henry Adams]—(Born in 1838.) |
| | [Jefferson's Retirement.] |
| | (From the "History of the United States") | [219] |
| [Bret Harte]—(Born in 1839, died in 1902.) |
| I | [Peggy Moffat's Inheritance.] |
| | (From "The Twins of Table Mountain") | [224] |
| II | [John Chinaman.] |
| | (From "The Luck of Roaring Camp") | [236] |
| III | [M'liss Goes to School.] |
| | (From "M'liss," one of the stories in "The Luck of Roaring Camp") | [240] |
| [Henry James]—(Born in 1843.) |
| I | [Among the Malvern Hills.] |
| | (From "A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales") | [246] |
| II | [Turgeneff's World.] |
| | (From "French Poets and Novelists") | [252] |
| [Index To the Ten Volumes] | [255] |