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 Cr LONGFELLOW. paob 
 
 J Portrait . . . , 6 
 
 V Biographical Sketch 7 
 
 ^ The Village Blacksmith 9 
 
 ii^^^ Footsteps of Angels 11 
 
 ^ WHITTIER. 
 
 Portrait 14 
 
 Biographical Sketch 15 
 
 The Poor Voter on Election Day . . , . 17 
 
 The Pipes at Lucknow 18 
 
 LOWELL. 
 
 Portrait 22 
 
 Biographical Sketch 23 
 
 To the Dandelion . . .. • . . .25 
 
 In the Twilight 26 
 
 HOLMES. 
 
 Portrait 30 
 
 Biographical Sketch 31 
 
 The Chambered Nautilus 33 
 
 Robinson of Leyden 34 
 
 Departed Days 36 
 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Portrait 38 
 
 Biographical Sketch 39 
 
 The Humble-Bee 41 
 
 Each and All 43 
 
 BRYANT. 
 
 Portrait 46 
 
 Biographical Sketch 47 
 
 To a Waterfowl 49 
 
 The Fringed Gentian 50 
 
 The Return of the Birds 51 
 
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 
 
 The first piece set down in the list of Longfellow's writ- 
 ings is The Battle of LovelVs Pond in 1820. The poet was 
 born at Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807, so that he was 
 only thirteen years old at the time. He was a school-boy 
 then, and in 1821 entered Bowdoin College. During the 
 four years of his college life and the few months which in- 
 tervened before he made his first journey to Europe, three 
 prose papers and twenty-four poems found their way into 
 print, and when he came, later on, to collect his poems, he 
 was willing to retain seven of these earlier pieces. 
 
 He went to Europe in 1826, to qualify himself for a pro- 
 fessorship in Bowdoin College, and remained abroad three 
 years. Upon his return he entered upon his college duties, 
 and in connection with them occupied himself with preparing 
 French, Spanish, and Italian text -books. He also turned 
 the results of his study in modern languages and literature 
 into critical and scholarly articles for The North American 
 Review, but rendered his experience of travel into more dis- 
 tinctly literary form in his book of European life, Outre-Mer. 
 
 In 1831 he was married, and in 1834 was invited to 
 take the chair of Modern Languages in Harvard University. 
 This sent him to Europe again, with special reference to 
 the study of the northern literatures. His wife accompanied 
 him, but died a few months after they left America. He 
 sjDent a year only abroad this time, and when he returned, 
 made his home in the historic house in Cambridge which 
 had been Washington's headquarters. 
 
 Very soon after his Cambridge life began, he resumed the 
 writing of poetry, which, except in the form of translations, 
 chiefly in connection with his review articles, he had aban- 
 doned since leaving America for the first time. That is, 
 about twelve years clasped between his early poem, Hijmn 
 of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, and the poem Flowers^ 
 
 1 
 
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 
 
 with which he opened his second period ^f poetic composi- 
 tion in 1837 ; but between his return to America after his 
 first journey and this new poem, Flowers, he had written 
 over forty translations of French, German, Spanish, Italian, 
 Danish, and Swedish poems. 
 
 His reappearance as a poet, with Voices of the Night, in 
 1839 was almost simultaneous with his fame as a romancer 
 in Hyperion, published in the same year. During the next 
 ten years, which was also marked by a summer journey to 
 Europe in 1842 and his marriage to Miss Appleton in 1843, 
 there was a constant flow of verse, including such famous 
 lyrics as Excelsior, The Skeleton in Armor, The Village 
 Blacksmith, and culminating in Evangeline, in 1847. 
 
 Kauanagh, his last prose work, was published in 1849? 
 just ten years after Hyperion, and two years later The Gol- 
 den Legend, the first portion completed, but the second in 
 order, in his trilogy of Christus. He retired from his aca- 
 demic work in 1854. The two or three years previous saw 
 but few lyrics written, and his diary shows signs of weari- 
 ness, but with his release from college duties came a fresh 
 interest in poetic composition. He wrote Hiawatha and 
 The Courtship of Miles Standish, and from the first appear- 
 ance of The Atlaiitic Monthly in 1857 made frequent con- 
 tributions of lyrics to its pages. 
 
 The sudden and distressing death of his wife by fire in 
 1861 had something of the same influence upon his work 
 that the death of Bryant's wife had upon that poet. He 
 had long contemplated making a translation of Dante, and 
 had indeed made several experiments. He now took this 
 work up as a daily consolation, and published his result 
 finally in 1867. In 1868 he made a fourth journey to 
 Europe, where he was received with public honors at the 
 universities and with the most warm welcome in society. 
 He returned to America in 1869, completed his Christus in 
 1872, and read Morituri Salutamus before his class at the 
 fiftieth anniversary of their graduation, in 1875. He died 
 at Cambridge in his home, March 24, 1882. 
 
 8 
 
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 
 
 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 
 
 Under a spreading chestnut-tree 
 
 The village smithy stands; 
 The smith, a mighty man is he, 
 
 With large and sinewy hands ; 
 And the muscles of his brawny arms 
 
 Are as strong as iron bands. 
 
 His hair is crisp, and black, and long, 
 
 His face is like the tan ; 
 His brow is wet with honest sweat, 
 
 He earns whatever he can. 
 And looks the whole world in the face, 
 
 For he owes not any man. 
 
 Week in, week out, from morn till night, 
 You can hear his bellows blow ; 
 
 You can hear him swing his heavy sledge. 
 With measured beat and slow, 
 
 Like a sexton ringing the village bell. 
 When the evening sun is low. 
 
 And children coming home from school 
 
 Look in at the open door.; 
 They love to see the flaming forge, 
 
 And hear the bellows roar, 
 And catch the burning sparks that fly 
 
 Like chaff from a threshing-floor. 
 
 He goes on Sunday to the church. 
 And sits among his boys ; 
 9 
 
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 
 
 He hears the parson pray and preach, 
 He hears his daughter's voice, 
 
 Singing in the village choir. 
 And it makes his heart rejoice. 
 
 It sounds to him like her mother's voice. 
 
 Singing in Paradise ! 
 He needs must think of her once more. 
 
 How in the grave she lies ; 
 And with his hard, rough hand he wipes 
 
 A tear out of his eyes. 
 
 Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing. 
 
 Onward through life he goes ; 
 Each morning sees some task begin, 
 
 Each evening sees it close ; 
 Something attempted, something done, 
 
 Has earned a night's repose. 
 
 Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, 
 For the lesson thou hast taught ! 
 
 Thus at the flaming forge of life 
 Our fortunes must be wrought ; 
 
 Thus on its sounding anvil shaped 
 Each burning deed and thought. 
 10 
 
FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. 
 
 FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. 
 
 The poem in its first form bore the title " Evening- Shadows." The 
 reference in the fourtli stanza is to the poet's friend and brother-in- 
 law George W. Pierce, of whom he said long' after : " I have never 
 ceased to feel that in his death something- was taken from my own 
 life which could never be restored." News of his friend's death 
 reached Mr. Longfellow in Heidelberg- on Christmas Eve, 1835, less 
 than a month after the death of Mrs. Longfellow, who is referred to 
 in the sixth and following- stanzas. 
 
 When the hours of Day are numbered, 
 
 And the voices of the Night 
 Wake the better soul, that slumbered, 
 
 To a holy, calm delight ; 
 
 Ere the evening lamps are lighted, 
 
 And, like phantoms grim and tall, 
 
 Shadows from the. fitful firelioht 
 Dance upon the parlor wall ; 
 
 Then the forms of the departed 
 
 Enter at the open door ; 
 The beloved, the true-hearted, 
 
 Come to visit me once more ; 
 
 He, the young and strong, who cherished 
 Noble longings for the strife, 
 
 By the roadside fell and perished. 
 Weary with the march of life ! 
 
 They, the holy ones and weakly. 
 
 Who the cross of suffering bore, 
 
 Folded their pale hands so meekly, 
 Spake with us on earth no more ! 
 11 
 
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 
 
 And with tlieni the Being Beauteous, 
 Who unto my youth was given, 
 
 More than all things else to love me, 
 And is now a saint in heaven. 
 
 With a slow and noiseless footstep 
 Comes that messenger divine. 
 
 Takes the vacant chair beside me, 
 Lays her gentle hand in mine. 
 
 And she sits and gazes at me 
 
 With those deep and tender eyes, 
 
 Like the stars, so still and saint-like. 
 Looking downward from the skies. 
 
 Uttered not, yet comprehended, 
 Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, 
 
 Soft rebukes, in blessings ended. 
 Breathing from her lips of air 
 
 Oh, though oft depressed and lonely. 
 All my fears are laid aside. 
 
 If I but remember only 
 
 Such as these have lived and died ! 
 12 
 

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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 
 
 John Greenleaf Whittier, of Quaker birth in Puritan 
 surroundings, was born at the homestead near Haverhill, 
 Massachusetts, December 17, 1807. Until his eighteenth 
 year he lived at home, working upon the farm and in the 
 little shoemaker's shop which nearly every farm then had as 
 a resource in the otherwise idle hours of the long winter. 
 The manual, homely labor upon which he was employed 
 was in part the foundation of that deep interest which the 
 poet never has ceased to take in the toil and plain fortunes 
 of the people. Throughout his poetry runs this golden 
 thread of sympathy with honorable labor and enforced pov- 
 erty, and many poems are directly inspired by it^ While at 
 work he sent poems to the JS eAvhuryport Free Fress and 
 the Haverhill Gazette, his first poem, The Exile's Depar- 
 ture, having been published in the former journal June 1, 
 1826. Thus for more than sixty years he was heard sing- 
 ing to his countrymen. 
 
 He had two years academic training, and occupied him- 
 self a few months in teaching ; but his main support during 
 that period when he was acquiring his position as a poet 
 was drawn from editorial work. In 1828 he contributed 
 to and in effect edited the American Manufacturer, a 
 paper published in Boston. A year or two later he was 
 employed as editor of the Haverhill Gazette, and later of 
 the Neiu England Weekly Review in Hartford, Connecti- 
 cut. Then came a term of four years when he returned to 
 his home farm, but it was followed by a new charge of 
 the Gazette, and in 1838 he edited the Pennsylvania Free- 
 man, which was honored by the hatred of the pro-slavery 
 party. The hall in which the paper was published was de- 
 stroyed by a mob a few months later. In 1844 he was 
 in Lowell, writing for the Middlesex Standard; and in 1847 
 he began his most important connection with the National 
 
 15 
 
JOHN GREEN LEAF WHITTIER. 
 
 Era of Washington, a connection which, as contributor and 
 editor, he maintained for a dozen years. 
 
 This was the last of his formal connections with journal- 
 ism. By this time he had won the right to consult his own 
 preferences and to write when and what he chose, and to 
 use the most convenient vehicles, as indeed the best were 
 now always at his service. He had used his opportunities 
 well, and a large part of his prose writings, pretty much all 
 indeed except Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, had 
 appeared first in the several papers with which he had been 
 connected. In these papers, and in the more exclusively 
 anti-slavery journals, had also appeared a large portion of 
 his verse. 
 
 His first volume. Legends of New England in Prose and 
 Verse, was issued in 1831. In 1837 appeared Poems writ- 
 ten during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the 
 United States, between the years 1830 and 1838. This was 
 a thin volume collected and issued by Isaac Knapp, Mr. 
 Garrison's partner. The next year, however, when Mr. 
 Whittier was in Philadelphia, a publisher of that city 
 brought out a more substantial volume. In 1848 appeared 
 Voices of Freedom, and the next year a handsome illus- 
 trated volume was published. 
 
 The greatest accession to his popularity no doubt came 
 with the publication of Snow Bound in 1866, but from the 
 appearance of his first collected edition in 1857 and with the 
 opportunity afforded by the founding of the Atlantic Monthly 
 in the same year, there followed from that day a steady 
 succession of volumes of verse, most of which were col- 
 lections of poems individually contributed to periodicals. 
 In 1886, at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 
 founding of Harvard University, he received the degree of 
 Doctor of Laws. In 1888 the Riverside Editio7i of his 
 writings in seven volumes appeared under his supervision. 
 He died September 7, 1892. 
 
 16 
 
THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY. 
 
 THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY. 
 
 The proudest now is but my peer, 
 
 The highest not more high ; 
 To-day, of all the weary year, 
 
 A king of men am I. 
 To-day, alike are great and small. 
 
 The nameless and the known ; 
 My palace is the people's hall, 
 
 The ballot-box my throne ! 
 
 Who serves to-day upon the list 
 
 Beside the served shall stand ; 
 Alike the brown and wrinkled fist, 
 
 The gloved and dainty hand ! 
 The rich is level with the poor. 
 
 The weak is strong to-day ; 
 And sleekest broadcloth counts no more 
 
 Than homespun frock of gray. 
 
 To-day let pomp and vain pretence 
 
 My stubborn right abide ; 
 I set a plain man's common sense 
 
 Against the pedant's pride. 
 To-day shall simple manhood try 
 
 The strength of gold and land ; 
 The wide world has not wealtli to buy 
 
 The power in my right hand ! 
 
 While there 's a grief to seek redress. 
 
 Or balance to adjust, 
 W^here weighs our living manhood less 
 
 Than Mammon's vilest dust, — 
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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 
 
 While there 's a right to need my vote, 
 
 A wrong to sweep away, 
 Up ! clouted knee and rag'ged coat ! 
 
 A man 's a man to-day ! 
 
 THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW. 
 
 [an incident of the sepoy mutiny.] 
 
 Pipes of the misty moorlands. 
 
 Voice of the glens and hills ; 
 The droning of the torrents, 
 
 The treble of the rills ! 
 Not the braes of bloom and heather. 
 
 Nor the mountains dark with rain. 
 Nor maiden bower, nor border tower. 
 
 Have heard your sweetest strain ! 
 
 Dear to the Lowland reaper, 
 
 And plaided mountaineer, — 
 To the cottage and the castle 
 
 The Scottish pipes are dear ; — 
 Sweet sounds the ancient pibroch 
 
 O'er mountain, loch, and glade ; 
 But the sweetest of all music 
 
 The pipes at Lucknow^ played. 
 
 Day by day the Indian tiger 
 
 Louder yelled, and nearer crept ; 
 Round and round the jungle-serpent 
 Near and nearer circles swept. 
 " Pray for rescue, wives and mothers, — 
 Pray to-day I " the soldier said ; 
 18 
 
THE PIPES AT LUC KNOW. 
 
 *' To-morrow, death 's between us 
 
 And the wrong and shame we dread." 
 
 Oh, they listened, looked, and waited, 
 
 Till their hope became despair ; 
 And the sobs of low bewailing 
 
 Filled the pauses of their prayer. 
 Then up spake a Scottish maiden,' 
 
 With her ear unto the ground : 
 « Dinna ye hear it ? — dinna ye hear it ? 
 
 The pipes o' Havelock sound I " 
 
 Hushed the wounded man his groaning ; 
 
 Hushed the wife her little ones ; 
 Alone they heard the drum-roll 
 
 And the roar of Sepoy guns. 
 But to sounds of home and childhood 
 
 The Highland ear was true ; — 
 As her mother's cradle-crooning 
 
 The mountain pipes she knew. 
 
 Like the march of soundless music 
 
 Through the vision of the seer, 
 More of feeling than of hearing. 
 
 Of the heart than of the ear. 
 She knew the droning pibroch, 
 
 She knew the Campbell's call : 
 " Hark ! hear ye no' MacGregor's, 
 
 The grandest o' them all I " 
 
 Oh, they listened, dumb and breathless, 
 And they caught the sound at last ; 
 
 Faint and far beyond the Goomtee 
 Rose and fell the piper's blast! 
 19 
 
JOHN GREENLEAF WHIT TIER. 
 
 Then a burst of wild thaiikso'ivino: 
 Mingled woman's voice and man's ; 
 " God be praised ! — the march of Havelock ! 
 The piping of the clans ! " 
 
 Louder, nearer, fierce as vengeance, 
 
 Sharp and shrill as swords at strife. 
 Came the wild MacGregor's clan-call. 
 
 Stinging all the air to life. 
 But when the far-off dust-cloud 
 
 To plaided legions grew, 
 Full tenderly and blithesomely 
 
 The pipes of rescue blew ! 
 
 Round the silver domes of Lucknow, 
 
 Moslem mosque and Pagan shrine. 
 Breathed the air to Britons dearest. 
 
 The air of Auld Lang Syne. 
 O'er the cruel roll of war-drums 
 
 Rose that sweet and homelike strain ; 
 And the tartan clove the turban, 
 
 As the Goomtee cleaves the plain. 
 
 Dear to the corn-land reaper 
 
 And plaided mountaineer, — 
 To the cottage and the castle 
 
 The piper's song is dear. 
 Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch 
 
 O'er mountain-glen and glade ; 
 But the sweetest of all music 
 
 The pipes at Lucknow played ! 
 20 
 
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 
 
 Although Mr. Lowell was somewhat of a vagrant in his 
 later years, his life was that of a student, and was passed 
 for the most j)art in the seclusion of Elmwood, Cambridge, 
 where he was born February 22, 1819. In his An Indian 
 Summer Reverie he has given a poetical, in Cambridge 
 Thirty Years Ago a prose, reminiscence of the circum- 
 stances of his early life. His father was a scholarly clergy- 
 man, and the son's own tastes early showed themselves, 
 both in prose and verse. So evenly were the two functions 
 of critic and poet exercised, that one is tempted to think of 
 Mr. Lowell as distracted by the contradictory calls upon his 
 nature ; but so frequently did the scholar's gown only half 
 conceal the poet's pipe, and so often did the poet's voice 
 echo against academic walls, that one is persuaded Na- 
 ture, after all, had her own way. 
 
 Mr. Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1838 and made a 
 somewhat nominal study of the law, but his heart was in lit- 
 erature. He had given the class poem when he graduated, 
 and three years later published his first volume of poems, 
 A Year's Life. He started, in company with Robert Car- 
 ter, a new literary magazine, The Pioneer^ which flashed for 
 three months. In 1844 he published his second volume of 
 poems, A Legend of Brittany, Miscellaneous Poems and 
 Sonnets, and in the same year married. The next year he 
 published his first prose work, Conversations on Some of the 
 Old Poets, which has long been out of print, and in 1848 
 he appeared in two lights, as the author of the romantic 
 poem, The Visio7i of Sir La^mfal, and of the audacious 
 and witty survey of contemporary poets, A Fable for Crit- 
 ics, which appeared anonymously, and in which he good- 
 humoredly flicked himself with his own whip. 
 
 Although thus far he had seemed almost wholly a scholar 
 23 
 
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 
 
 and poet, he had also disclosed in prose and verse a 
 strong ethical nature, and he had been stirred by the pro- 
 found movements going on in the society about him. When, 
 therefore, the Mexican war was imminent and after it had 
 opened, he wrote a series of stinging satires under the gen- 
 eral title of The Bigloiv Fapei's, which were a safety-valve 
 for thousands of sensitive persons who thought with him, 
 and wanted some vehicle for the expression of their indig- 
 nation. The Biglow Papers gave him special distinction, 
 but he was not diverted into political life. He went abroad 
 for a year in 1851. After his return his wife died, leav- 
 ing him with a young daughter. 
 
 In 1855 he accepted an appointment at Harvard to suc- 
 ceed Longfellow as Smith Professor of the French and 
 Spanish Languages and Literatures and Professor of Belles 
 Lettres, and retained the position for twenty years. During 
 that time also he did special work as editor, being the first 
 editor of The Atlantic Monthly and afterwards one of the 
 two editors of The North Americaii Review. His position 
 gave him the oj^portunity, and the rising tide of anti-slavery 
 principles the occasion, for much vigorous political writing. 
 His thought in this field rose, however, to its height in the 
 ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865. The 
 war for the union called out a second series of The Biglow 
 Papers, and the centennial celebrations in 1876 gave rise 
 also to two notable odes. 
 
 In 1876 he took his first political office as Presidential 
 Elector, and in 1877 was sent by President Hayes as min- 
 ister to Spain, and transferred thence to England in 1880. 
 Upon the change of party administration, he returned to the 
 United States in 1885, and some of the literary record of 
 his residence abroad was published in 1887 under the title 
 Democracy and other Addresses. Later he published 
 Heartsease and Rue, a collection of his fugitive verse, and 
 supervised a definitive edition of his writings in ten volumes 
 in 1890-91. He died at Cambridge, August 12, 1891. 
 
 24 
 
TO THE DANDELION. 
 
 TO THE DANDELION. 
 
 Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, 
 Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold. 
 
 First pledge of blithesome May, 
 Which children pluck, and full of pride uphold. 
 High-hearted buccaneers, o'er joyed that they 
 An Eldorado in the grass have found. 
 
 Which not the rich earth's ample round 
 May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me 
 Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. 
 
 Gold such as thine ne'er drew tlie Spanish prow 
 Through the primeval hush of Indian seas, 
 
 Nor wrinkled the lean brow 
 Of age, to rob the lover's heart of ease ; 
 
 'T is the Spring's largess, which she scatters now 
 
 Fresh every day to my untainted ears 
 
 When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 
 
 How like a prodigal doth nature seem, 
 When thou, for all th}'- gold, so common art ! 
 
 Thou teachest me to deem 
 More sacredly of every human heart. 
 
 Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam 
 Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, 
 Did we but pay the love we owe. 
 And with a child's undoubting wisdom look 
 On all these living pages of God's book. 
 26 
 
JAMES BUSSELL LOWELL, 
 
 rS THE TWILIGHT. 
 
 Mkx siAT the sullen instninieiit^ 
 That, from the Master's bow, 
 AVith jv\uon; of jov or \»h\ 
 Feels music's soul thi\>ugh every libre soiiu 
 
 A\1iis|vrs the nwisheii strings 
 More than he knew or meant : 
 
 Okl summers in it^ memory glow : 
 The seerets of the wind it sing^ : 
 It hears the April-hxv>eneil springs ; 
 And mixes with its moixi 
 All it dreamed when it stood 
 In the murmurous pine-wood 
 Long agv) ! 
 
 The magical moonlight then 
 
 Steeped every Ix^ugh and cone : 
 The rv^ar of the brook in the glen 
 
 Came dim from the distj^nee blown : 
 The wind through its; glooms sang low. 
 And it swayed to and fro 
 
 With delight as it stood. 
 In the wonderful wood, 
 Long ago ! 
 
 O my life, have we not had seasons 
 That only said. Live and rejoice ? 
 
 That asked not for causes and reasons. 
 But made us all feeling and voice ? 
 
 TNTieu we went with tlie winds in their blowini 
 When Nature and w^e were peers, 
 26 
 
IN THE TwiLiaur. 
 
 And wo seom(;(l to shMrc; in the flowing 
 Of the in(ixliauHtil)l(i yofirs ? 
 Have we not from the earth drawn juices 
 Too fine for earth's sordid uses ? 
 Have 1 heard, have I seen 
 
 All I feel, all I know ? 
 Doth niy heart overween ? 
 Or could it have been 
 Long ago ? 
 
 Sometimes a breath floats by me, 
 
 An odor from Dreamland sent, 
 That makes the ghost seem nigh me 
 
 Of a splendor that came and went, 
 Of a life lived somewhere, I know not 
 
 In what diviner sphere. 
 Of memories that stay not and go not, 
 Like music heard once by an ear 
 That cannot forget or reclaim it, 
 A something so shy, it would shame it, 
 
 To make it a show, 
 A something too vague, could I name it, 
 For other to know, 
 As if I had lived it or dreamed it, 
 As if I had acted or schemed it, 
 Long ago ! 
 
 And yet, could I live it over. 
 
 This life that stirs in my brain. 
 
 Could I be both maiden and lover. 
 
 Moon and tide, bee and clover, 
 
 As I seem to have been, once again, 
 27 
 
JAMES BUSSELL LOWELL. 
 
 Could I but speak it and show it. 
 
 This pleasure more sharp than pain, 
 That baffles and lures me so, 
 The world should once more have a poet, 
 Such as it had 
 In the ages glad 
 Long ago ! 
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 vard which he had held at Dartmouth, and he continued to 
 make this professorship his occupation until 1882, when he 
 retired from academic work. 
 
 Even when he was qualifying himself for his profession, 
 he was winning fame as a poet. In 1836, the same year in 
 which he took his doctor's degree, he delivered Poetry, a 
 metrical essay, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and pub- 
 lished the first collected edition of his poeni^. In 1850 he 
 published Astrcea and other poems, and in 1852 he gave a 
 brilliant course of lectures on the English poets of the nine- 
 teenth century. The most interesting sign, however, of the 
 continuity of his intellectual life is found in the fact that 
 before he went to Europe, while he was still in the medical 
 school, he issued in The New England Magazine two pa- 
 pers with the title The Autocrat of the Br eal: fast-Table. 
 How much his thought had mellowed in the next twenty- 
 five years, and yet what promise lay in the first expression 
 of his thought, may be seen by any one who takes the trou- 
 ble to compare these early papers with the famous book 
 bearing the same title, which first saw the light in The At- 
 lantic Monthly, when that magazine was started in 1857. 
 
 The Autocrat was followed by the Professor, and still the 
 rich vein seemed unexhausted. Two novels followed, Elsie 
 Venner and The Guardian Angel, and then The Poet at 
 the Breakfast Table, with essays and poems sufficient to fill 
 three more volumes. A memoir of his friend John Lothrop 
 Motley grew out of a sketch for the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society, and after severing his connection with Harvard, 
 Dr. Holmes published a volume on EmersoJi in the Men 
 of Letters series ; a novel, A Mortal Antipathy ; Over the 
 Teacups, a completion of the Breakfast-Table series ; Our 
 Hundred Daijs in Euroj^e, which records his experience 
 abroad, mainly in England, in the summer of 1886 ; and 
 several poems. It is a fresh illustration of some of Dr. 
 Holmes's observations on the transmission of qualities, that 
 his father should have been a notable clergyman and his son 
 should be a learned justice. He died at Boston October 7, 
 1894. 
 
 32 
 
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 
 
 THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 
 
 This is tlie ship of pearl, which, poets feign, 
 
 Sails the unshadowed main, — 
 
 The venturous bark that flings 
 On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings 
 In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, 
 
 And coral reefs lie bare. 
 Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming 
 hair. 
 
 Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; 
 
 Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! 
 
 And every chambered cell. 
 Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, 
 As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, 
 
 Before thee lies revealed, — 
 Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crj^pt unsealed ! 
 
 Year after year beheld the silent toil 
 
 That spread his lustrous coil ; 
 
 Still, as the spiral grew, 
 He left the past year's dwelling for the new. 
 Stole with soft step Its shining archway through. 
 
 Built up its idle door. 
 Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no 
 more. 
 
 Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, 
 
 Child of the wandering sea. 
 
 Cast from her lap, forlorn ! 
 From thy dead lips a clearer note is born 
 
 33 
 
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 Then ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! 
 
 While on mine ear it rings, 
 Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that 
 
 Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, 
 
 As the swift seasons roll ! 
 
 Leave thy low-vaulted past ! 
 Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
 Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, 
 
 Till thou at length art free, 
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! 
 
 ROBINSON OF LEYDEN. 
 
 He sleeps not here ; in hope and prayer 
 His wandering flock had gone before, 
 
 But he, the shepherd, might not share 
 Their sorrows on the wintry shore. 
 
 Before the Speedwell's anchor swung. 
 Ere yet the Mayflower's sail was spread, 
 
 While round his feet the Pilgrims clung. 
 The pastor spake, and thus he said : — 
 
 " Men, brethren, sisters, children dear ! 
 God calls you hence from over sea ; 
 Ye may not build by Haerlem Meer, 
 Nor yet along the Zuyder-Zee. 
 
 *' Ye go to bear the saving word 
 
 To tribes unnamed and shores untrod ; 
 Heed well the lessons ye have heard 
 From those old teachers taught of God. 
 34 
 
ROBINSON OF LEYDEN. 
 
 " Yet think not unto them was lent 
 All light for all the coming days, 
 And Heaven's eternal wisdom spent 
 In making straight the ancient ways ; 
 
 The livino' fountain overflows 
 For every flock, for every lamb, 
 
 Nor heeds, though angry creeds oppose 
 With Luther's dike or Calvin's dam." 
 
 He spake ; with lingering, long embrace, 
 With tears of love and partings fond, 
 
 They floated down the creeping Maas, 
 Along the isle of Ysselmond. 
 
 They passed the frowning towers of Briel, 
 The " Hook of Holland's " shelf of sand, 
 
 And grated soon with lifting keel 
 The sullen shores of Fatherland. 
 
 No home for these ! — too well they knew 
 The mitred king behind the throne ; 
 
 The sails were set, the pennons flew. 
 And westward ho ! for worlds unknown. 
 
 And these were they who gave us birth. 
 The Pilgrims of the sunset wave. 
 
 Who won for us this virgin earth. 
 And freedom with the soil they gave. 
 
 The pastor slumbers by the Rhine, — 
 In alien earth the exiles lie, — 
 
 Their nameless graves our holiest shrine. 
 His words our noblest battle-cry ! 
 35 
 
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 Still cry them, and the world shall hear, 
 Ye dwellers by the storm-swept sea ! 
 
 Ye have not built by Haerlem Meer, 
 Nor on the land-locked Zuyder-Zee ! 
 
 DEPARTED DAYS. 
 
 Yes, dear departed, cherished days, 
 
 Could Memory's hand restore 
 Your morning light, your evening rays, 
 
 From Time's gray urn once more, 
 Then might this restless heart be still, 
 
 This straining eye might close. 
 And Hope her fainting pinions fold. 
 
 While the fair phantoms rose. 
 
 But, like a child in ocean's arms. 
 
 We strive against the stream. 
 Each moment farther from the shore 
 
 Where life's young fountains gleam ; 
 Each moment fainter wave the fields, 
 
 And wider rolls the sea ; 
 The mist grows dark, — the sun goes down, 
 
 Day breaks, — and where are we ? 
 36 
 
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 
 
 The readers of Mr. Cabot's A Memoir of Ralph Waldo 
 Emerson must have been struck by the absence of incident 
 in Mr. Emerson's life, and by the fact that the interest, aside 
 from the new contributions to thought, rests in what may be 
 called the spiritual biography of the man. The external 
 facts of his life are quickly recited. He was born in Bos- 
 ton, May 25, 1803 ; lost his father when he was eight years 
 old, was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, en- 
 tered Harvard College, and graduated in 1821. During his 
 college course he taught school in vacation, like other stu- 
 dents with narrow means, and after graduation turned to 
 school-keeping as the readiest means of support. After an 
 interval of four years he entered the Divinity School in 
 Cambridge, and on March 11, 1829, was ordained as col- 
 league to the Rev Henry Ware, Jr, an eminent minister of the 
 Unitarian denomination in Boston, who shortly after resigned 
 leaving Emerson in sole charge. In September of the same 
 year he married Miss Ellen Louisa Tucker. His wife died 
 in 1831 and the next year he resigned his pastorate, from an 
 inability to conform to the religious institutions of his church, 
 and went to Europe to repair his broken health. He re- 
 turned to America in the fall of 1833, made his home 
 shortly after in Concord, Mass., married Miss Lydia Jack- 
 son September 14, 1835, and thenceforth led the life of a man 
 of letters, maintaining himself chiefly by lecturing. His 
 quiet residence in Concord was broken only by his necessary 
 journeys as a lecturer and by two further trips to Europe. 
 He died at Concord, April 27, 1882. 
 
 Emerson's interior history, while marked by no violent 
 revolutions, has a great interest, by reason of the change 
 which came over his relations to the world about him. De- 
 scended from a liiie of ministers, and living in a society 
 where the clergyman was quite the only man who found 
 opportunity for the expression of high thought, he naturally 
 slipped into the profession of the ministry. But from the 
 
 39 
 
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 
 
 beginning his mind vras working against the Uniitations 
 which he found in his profession, and at hxst broke bounds 
 and h^ft him free to utter his thought, unembarrassed bv in- 
 stitutions and ordei-s. 
 
 His instinct was for poetrv, but his thought occupied it- 
 self about many rekitions of man to God which refused to 
 be expressed only in poetic form, and his intuitions found 
 their most natural expression in brief sentences which were 
 grouped under general heads, and so fell into the loose strue- 
 tui*e of essays. His first printed book was Xatiire, published 
 ill 1830, Ids tii*st volume of Fsaai/s was published in 1841, 
 and his first collection of I*oems in 1840. The only book 
 of continuous prose was Ent/Iish Traits, issued in 1856. 
 The contents of the other volumes of his collected works, 
 which luv embraced in twelve volumes in the Iiircrside edi- 
 tion, were in almost all cases given fii*st as lectures and ad- 
 dresses, or contributed to periodicals : but even in this form 
 they looked back to an earlier record still, in the journal 
 which he kept and in which lie set down his reflections. 
 
 Living in the seclusion of Concord, unaided by the 
 weight of any orgttnization, he was a power that worked as 
 noiselessly as light. An addi*ess, now and then, like that 
 on The Atuerican Scholar, given before the Phi Beta Kappa 
 society of Harvaixl College in 1837, or that given to the 
 senior class of the Divinity School in Cambridge in 1838, 
 worked revolutions in the minds of men. and Emerson's 
 thought on religious subjects was awaited by many in the 
 hope that it would solve all their doubts. 
 
 He watched many movements in politics, religion, and 
 society, and spoke his word with more or less directness, 
 but identified himself with no org-anization. He was one 
 of the fii-st to hail Carlyle, and the life-long correspondence 
 of the two men was published after their death. He has 
 been the subject of nnich writing by men of thought, and, 
 besides Mr. Calx)t's memoir, a briefer study by Eh*. Holmes 
 has appeared in the American Men of Letters series. 
 
 40 
 
THE HUMBLE-BEE. 
 
 THE HUMBLE-BEE. 
 
 Burly, dozing liumble-bee, 
 Where thou art is clime for me. 
 Let them sail for Porto llique, 
 Ear-oft' heats through seas to seek ; 
 I will follow thee alone, 
 Thou animated torrid zone ! 
 Zigzag steerer, desert cheerer. 
 Let me chase thy waving lines ; 
 Keep me nearer, me thy hearer, 
 Singing over shrubs and vines. 
 
 Insect lover of the sun, 
 Joy of thy dominion ! 
 Sailor of the atmosphere ; 
 Swimmer through the waves of air ; 
 Voyager of light and noon ; 
 Epicurean of June ; 
 Wait, I prithee, till I come 
 Within earshot of thy hum, — 
 All without is martyrdom. 
 
 When the south wind, in May days, 
 With a net of shining haze 
 Silvers the horizon wall. 
 And with softness touching all. 
 Tints the human countenance 
 With a color of romance. 
 And infusing subtle heats. 
 Turns the sod to violets, 
 Thou, in sunny solitudes, 
 Rover of the underwoods, 
 41 
 
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 
 
 The green silence dost displace 
 With thy mellow, breezy bass. 
 
 Hot midsummer's petted crone, 
 Sweet to me thy drowsy tone 
 Tells of countless sunny hours, 
 Long days, and solid banks of flowers ; 
 Of gulfs of sweetness without bound 
 In Indian wildernesses found ; 
 Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure. 
 Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure. 
 
 Aught unsavory or unclean 
 Hath my insect never seen ; 
 But violets and bilberry bells, 
 Maple-sap and daffodels. 
 Grass with green flag half-mast high, 
 Succory to match the sky, 
 Columbine with horn of honey. 
 Scented fern, and agrimony. 
 Clover, catchfly, adder's-tongue 
 And brier-roses, dwelt among ; 
 All beside was unknown waste, 
 All was picture as he passed. 
 
 Wiser far than human seer. 
 Yellow-breeched philosopher ! 
 Seeing only what is fair. 
 Sipping only what is sweet, 
 Thou dost mock at fate and care, 
 Leave the chaif, and take the wheat. 
 When the fierce northwestern blast 
 Cools sea and land so far and fast, 
 42 
 
EACH AND ALL. 
 
 Thou already slumberest deep ; 
 Woe and want thou canst outsleep ; 
 Want and woe, which torture us, 
 Thy sleep makes ridiculous. 
 
 EACH AND ALL. 
 
 Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown 
 Of thee from the hill-top looking down ; 
 The heifer that lows in the upland farm, 
 Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm ; 
 The sexton, tolling his bell at noon. 
 Deems not that great Napoleon 
 Stops his horse, and lists with delight, 
 Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height ; 
 Nor knowest thou what argument 
 Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. 
 All are needed by each one ; 
 Nothing is fair or good alone. 
 I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, 
 Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 
 I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; 
 He sings the song, but it cheers not now. 
 For I did not bring home the river and sky; — 
 He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. 
 The delicate shells lay on the shore ; 
 The bubbles of the latest wave 
 Fresh pearls to their enamel gave. 
 And the bellowing of the savage sea 
 Greeted their safe escape to me. 
 I wiped away the weeds and foam, 
 I fetched my sea-born treasures home ; 
 But the poor, unsightly, noisome things 
 43 
 
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 
 
 Had left their beauty on the shore 
 With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. 
 The lover watched his graceful maid, 
 As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, 
 Nor knew her beauty's best attire 
 Was woven still by the snow-white choir. 
 At last she came to his hermitage, 
 Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage ; — - 
 The gay enchantment was undone, 
 A gentle wife, but fairy none. 
 Then I said, " I covet truth : 
 Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; 
 I leave it behind with the games of youth : " — - 
 As I spoke, beneath my feet 
 The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, 
 Running over the club-moss burrs ; 
 I inhaled the violet's breath ; 
 Around me stood the oaks and firs ; 
 Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; 
 Over me soared the eternal sky. 
 Full of light and of deity ; 
 Again I saw, again I heard, 
 The rolling river, the morning bird ; — 
 Beauty through my senses stole ; 
 I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 
 
 44 
 

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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 
 
 It is a little significant that Bryant's first published poem, 
 The Embargo, 1809, should have been in effect a political 
 pamphlet. The union of politics and poetry was in the man, 
 and that it should have appeared in literature may readily 
 be explained by the fact that the writer was only thirteen 
 years old at the time, having been born at Cummington, 
 Massachusetts, November 3, 1794. The two strands were 
 twisted into the cord of his destiny, but though Bryant's par 
 triotism flamed forth more than once in his verse, notably 
 in Our Country's Call, he never after his first trial made 
 his poetry a mere vehicle for political doctrines. 
 
 Bryant's father was a cultivated country doctor, who 
 looked carefully after his son's reading and sent him to be- 
 gin a college education at Williams. He spent a little less 
 than a year at college, but his father's limited income for- 
 bade further collegiate study, and he was forced to take up 
 the study of the law, which he had chosen for his profes- 
 sion, and was admitted to the bar in 1815. 
 
 In boyhood, during his studies, and after he had been ad- 
 mitted to practice, he was constantly allured by poetry, and 
 some of his most famous poems, including Thanatopsis and 
 To a Waterfowl, were published at this period. In 1821 
 he was invited to read a poem before the Phi Beta Kappa 
 society of Harvard College, and he read The Ages, a stately 
 poem which bore witness to his lofty philosophic nature. 
 Shortly after this he issued a small volume of poems, scarcely 
 more than a pamphlet, and aontaining but eight pieces, yet 
 every one is now a classic, and the little paper book stands 
 chronologically at the head of American poetical literature. 
 
 When these poems a^jpeared Bryant was married and liv- 
 ing at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, as a young lawyer, 
 but he had a growing distaste for the profession, with a 
 steadily increasing absorption in literary pursuits as well as 
 strong interest in public affairs. He spent much of his time 
 
 47 
 
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 
 
 in periodical work, and in 1825 finally went to New York 
 to live, and undertook the management of a monthly jour- 
 nal, the New York Review. He earned a precarious liveli- 
 hood by this and miscellaneous work, but the Review went 
 the way of similar ventures, and in 1826 he made a connec- 
 tion which in one form or other he retained the rest of 
 his life. He became, in that year, a member of the staff 
 of the Neiv York Evening Post, and in 1829 was chief ed- 
 itor and part proprietor. There can be little doubt, how- 
 ever, that the absorbing occupation of daily journalism re- 
 duced the sum of his contributions to pure literature. Much 
 that he did in prose after this time was in the way of relax- 
 ation, as in the letters of travel written during his several 
 journeys and collected as Letters from a Traveller, Let- 
 ters from tlie East, and Letters from Spain and other 
 Countries. 
 
 His poetic work was infrequent. In 1842 he published 
 The Fountain and other Poems, and collections of later 
 poems were issued in 1844 and 1863. One expression of 
 his poetic nature was in his strong love of the country and 
 country life. He resorted frequently to the old homestead 
 at Cummington, which came into his possession, but he 
 created special associations with Roslyn on Long Island, an 
 estate which he bought in 1843 and always retained. It 
 was there in 1865 that his wife died, and in his loneliness 
 Mr. Bryant began the translation of the Iliad of Homer as 
 an occupation for his troubled mind. He finished this task 
 in 1870, and followed it with a translation of the Odyssey. 
 
 He was frequently called upon to make addresses in con- 
 nection with literary anniversaries. A volume of Oror- 
 tions and Addresses contains much of his work of this kind ; 
 and his last appearance in public was on the occasion of 
 the unveiling of a bust of Mazzini in Central Park. He 
 delivered an oration, but the exposure brought on an illness 
 from which he died a few days after, June 12, 1878. His 
 son-in-law, Parite Godwin, has written his life and edited 
 
 his writings. 
 
 48 
 
THE WATERFOWL. 
 
 TO A WATERFOWL. 
 
 Whither, midst falling dew, 
 While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, 
 Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue 
 
 Thy solitary way ? 
 
 Vainly the fowler's eye 
 Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong. 
 As, darkly seen against the crimson sky. 
 
 Thy figure floats along. 
 
 Seek'st thou the plashy brink 
 Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, 
 Or where the rocking billows rise and sink 
 
 On the chafed ocean-side ? 
 
 There is a Power whose care 
 Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — 
 The desert and illimitable air — 
 
 Lone wandering, but not lost. 
 
 All day thy wings have fanned, 
 At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, 
 Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land. 
 
 Though the dark night is near. 
 
 And soon that toil shall end ; 
 Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, 
 And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, 
 
 Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. 
 49 
 
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 
 
 Thou 'rt gone, the abyss of heaven 
 ILith swallowed up thy foi lu ; yot, on my heart 
 Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast <;"iven, 
 
 And shall not soon depart. 
 
 lie who, from zone to zone. 
 Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 
 In the long way that I nuist tread alone, 
 
 Will lead my steps aright. 
 
 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. 
 
 Tiiou blossom biight with autumn dew, 
 And colored with the heaven's own blue, 
 That openest when the quiet light 
 Succeeds the keen and frosty night. 
 
 Thou comest not when violets lean 
 
 O'er Nvandering brooks and springs unseen. 
 
 Or columbines, in purple dressed. 
 
 Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. 
 
 Thou waitest late and com'st alone. 
 When woods are bare and birds are flown, 
 And frosts and shortening days portend 
 The aged year is near his end. 
 
 Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye 
 Look through its fringes to the sky, 
 Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall 
 A flower from its eeridean wall. 
 50 
 
THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS. 
 
 I would that thus, when I shall see 
 The hour of death draw near to me, 
 Hope, blossoming within my heart. 
 May look to heaven as I depart. 
 
 THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS. 
 
 Written in March, 1864. 
 
 I HEAR, from many a little throat, 
 
 A warble interrupted long ; 
 I hear the robin's flute-like note, 
 
 The bluebird's slenderer song. 
 
 Brown meadows and the russet hill. 
 Not yet the haunt of grazing herds, 
 
 And thickets by the glimmering rill. 
 Are all alive with birds. 
 
 O choir of spring, why come so soon ? 
 
 On leafless grove and herbless lawn 
 Warm lie the yellow beams of noon ; 
 
 Yet winter is not gone. 
 
 For frost shall sheet the pools again ; 
 
 Again the blustering East shall blow — 
 Whirl a white tempest through the glen. 
 
 And load the pines with snow. 
 
 Yet, haply, from the region where, 
 
 Waked b}^ an earlier spring than here, 
 
 The blossomed wild-plum scents the air, 
 Ye come in haste and fear. 
 
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 
 
 For there is heard the biigle-blast, 
 The booming gim, the jarring drum, 
 
 And on their chargers, spurring fast, 
 Armed warriors go and come. 
 
 There mighty hosts have pitched the camp 
 In valleys that were yours till then. 
 
 And Earth has shuddered to the tramp 
 Of half a million men ! 
 
 In groves where once ye used to sing, 
 In orchards where ye had your birth, 
 
 A thousand glittering axes swing 
 To smite the trees to earth. 
 
 Then, as our conquering hosts return, 
 What shouts of jubilee shall break 
 
 From placid vale and mountain stern, 
 And shore of mighty lake ! 
 
 And midland plain and ocean-strand 
 Shall thunder : " Glory to the brave. 
 
 Peace to the torn and bleeding land, 
 And freedom to the slave ! " 
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 These portraits are of the size of a cabinet photo- 
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 Below each portrait is an autograjoh of the author. 
 Sold only in lots of ten or jnore. 
 
 Ten portraits, postpaid 20 cents. 
 
 Each additional portrait in the same package . i cent. 
 
 The portraits in this book are samples of the above. 
 
 HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 
 
 4 Park Street, Boston; ii East 17TH Street, New York; 
 iqS Adams Street. Chicago. 
 
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