Those who most admire Emerson to-day have perhaps as much optimism as he but very much less acquiescence. For certain vital things have happened since he did his work. Time,--Emerson's "little gray man,"--who could perform the miracle of continual change in life, has done nothing more miraculous than making men share the burden of creating a better world. Millions are now trying to follow Emerson's instruction to retain their independence and not to lose their sympathy, but they are going farther than he in expressing their sympathy by work. They are fighting every sort of social abuse, as Emerson's Puritan ancestors fought the devil; they are adopting Emerson's principles and Bryant's tactics; they are subscribing to Whittier's line: O prayer and action, ye are one. BOOK LIST RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Centenary Edition. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1903-1904. 12 vols. Uncollected Writings. Essays, Addresses, Poems, Reviews, and Letters, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1912. The chief works appeared in book form originally as follows: Nature, 1836; The American Scholar, 1837; An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, 1838; Essays, 1841; Essays, Second Series, 1844; Poems, 1847; Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, 1849; Representative Men, 1850; English Traits, 1856; The Conduct of Life, 1860; May-Day and Other Pieces, 1867; Society and Solitude, 1870; Letters and Social Aims, 1876; The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1883; Lectures and Biographical Sketches, 1884; Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers, 1893; Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations, 1909-1914. =Bibliography= A volume compiled by G. W. Cooke. 1908. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 551-566. =Biography and Criticism= The standard life is by James Elliot Cabot. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1887. 2 vols. BOYNTON, PERCY H. Democracy in Emerson's Journals. _New Republic_, Vol. I, No. 4, pp. 25-26. BOYNTON, PERCY H. Emerson's Feeling toward Reform. _New Republic_, Vol. I, No. 13, pp. 16-18. BOYNTON, PERCY H. Emerson's Solitude. _New Republic_, Vol. III, pp. 68-70. BROWNELL, WILLIAM C. Emerson, in _American Prose Masters_. 1909. BURROUGHS, JOHN. Emerson. Birds and Poets. 1877. CHAPMAN, J. J. Emerson, Sixty Years After, in _Emerson and Other Essays_. 1898. Concord School of Philosophy. The Genius and Character of Emerson. Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy. F. B. Sanborn, editor. 1885. EMERSON, EDWARD WALDO. Emerson in Concord. A Memoir. 1889. FIRKINS, O. W. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1915. GARNETT, RICHARD. Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1888.