_Autocrat, The, of the Breakfast-Table_, 340, 345, 355. _Autumn_, Thoreau’s, 324, 331. Bachiler, Stephen, 256. Bancroft, Aaron, father of George Bancroft, 101. Bancroft, George: his ancestry, 101; education and foreign travel, 102; tutor at Harvard, 103; the Round Hill School, 103; early works, 104; political appointments, 105, 107; founds United States Naval Academy, 105; brings about treaty with Germany, 107; last years, 107; death, 108; character, 108; criticism of the History, 110–119. ‘Barbara Frietchie,’ remark of Whittier concerning, 265; popularity of, 276. _Battle Summer_, 440, 444. _Belfry, The, of Bruges_, 225, 236. Benjamin, Mary, wife of John Lothrop Motley, 360; her death, 364. Bigelow, Catharine, wife of Francis Parkman, 381. _Biglow Papers, The_, 456, 458, 466. Bismarck, his student life with Motley, 360. Bliss, Elisabeth (Davis), wife of George Bancroft, 105. _Blithedale Romance, The_, 291, 309. _Bonneville_, 28. _Book of the Roses_, 381 (note). Borrow, George, Emerson’s knowledge of, 182. Boston Lyceum, Poe’s appearance before, 197, 200. _Bracebridge Hall_, 7, 17. _Bravo, The_, 69, 89, 96. ‘Broadway Journal, The,’ Poe’s connection with, 196. Bronson, W. C., quoted, on Bryant, 43. Brook Farm, Emerson’s sympathy with, 154; Hawthorne’s connection with, 289. Brown, John, Thoreau’s acquaintance with, 323. Bryant, Peter, father of William Cullen Bryant, 35. Bryant, Stephen, ancestor of William Cullen Bryant, 35. Bryant, William Cullen: his ancestry, 35; early verses, 36; education, 36, 37; law practice, 37; marriage, 38; editorial work, 38–41; political affiliations, 39, 40; works published, 41; travel, 42; death, 43; character, 44; quarrel with an opponent, 45; criticism of his work, 46–62; his translations, 58; quoted, on Cooper’s quarrel with the Press, 70. Burr, Aaron, Washington Irving among counsel for defence of, 5. Burroughs, John, 243. ‘Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly,’ Poe’s connection with, 194. Byron, George Gordon Noel, visits American flagship, 103. Cabot, Sebastian, passage on, from Bancroft, 110. Cambridge (England), University of, confers degree on Holmes, 340; on Lowell, 459. _Cape Cod_, 324, 331. Caraffa, Motley’s picture of, 371. Carlyle, Thomas, Emerson’s meeting with, 150; correspondence with Emerson, 156; quotation from, applied to Whitman, 495. _Cathedral, The_, 458, 470. Cavalier and Puritan, Bancroft’s comparison of, 111. _Chainbearer, The_, 71, 95. Champlain, Samuel, 392. Charles the Fifth, Prescott’s continuation of Robertson’s history of, 127. _Children of the Lord’s Supper, The_, 231, 236. _Christus, a Mystery_, 226, 245. Civil Service reform, Curtis’s work for, 421. Clemm, Maria, 192, 194, 198.