Clemm, Virginia, 192; her marriage to Edgar Allan Poe, 193; her death, 197. Clough, Arthur Hugh, effect on, of reading Evangeline, 232; visits America, 457. Cogswell, Joseph G., 103. Columbus, Irving’s life of, 8, 20. _Commemoration Ode_, 458, 470. _Conduct of Life_, 156, 175. Conkling, Roscoe, his attack on Curtis, 423. _Conquest, The, of Granada_, 8, 22. _Conquest, The, of Mexico_, 127, 134. _Conquest, The, of Peru_, 127, 138. _Conspiracy, The, of Pontiac_, 381, 387. Constitution of the United States, history of, by Bancroft, 108. Cooper, James Fenimore: his ancestry, 65; boyhood and education, 66; enters the navy, 66; marries and leaves the service, 67; his first books, 67; life abroad, 68; return to America, 69; quarrel with the Press, 69; list of works, 70; character, 72; style, 74; criticism of his works, 75–97. Cooper, William, father of James Fenimore Cooper, 65. Cortés, Prescott’s estimate of, 136. _Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV_, 382, 391, 393. _Courtship of Miles Standish, The_, 226, 242. Craigie, Mrs., her reception of Longfellow, 224. _Crater, The_, 71, 95. Croker, J. W., quoted, on Irving, 13. Curtis, George William: his ancestry, 417; education, 418; at Brook Farm and Concord, 418; foreign travel, 418; newspaper work, 419; the ‘Easy Chair,’ 419; books published, 419, 422; orations, 420; marriage, 420; political work and Civil Service reform, 421; character, 423; style, 424; criticism of his works, 427–435. Curtis family, 417. Dante, Longfellow’s translation of, 226, 249. Davis, Elisabeth, wife of George Bancroft, 105. _Deerslayer, The_, 66, 71, 81. Defoe, Poe compared with, 203. De Lancey, Susan, wife of James Fenimore Cooper, 67; her family, 75. ‘Democracy,’ 480. ‘Dial, The,’ 153. Dickens, Charles, dinner to, in New York, 46; quotation from letter of, to Longfellow, 228; greeting to, by O. W. Holmes, 350. _Divine Tragedy, The_, 226, 245. ‘Divinity Address,’ Emerson’s, 152, 163. _Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret_, 292, 316. _Doctor Johns_, 441, 448. _Dolliver Romance, The_, 292, 316. Doyle, Peter, quoted, on Whitman, 504. _Dream Life_, 440, 443, 447. _Drum-Taps_, 488, 502. Duelling, Bryant’s farce in ridicule of, 38. Dunlap, Frances, wife of James Russell Lowell, 457. Dutch life, Irving’s treatment of, 32. Duyckinck, E. A., 42. Dwight, Sarah, wife of George Bancroft, 105. _Early Spring in Massachusetts_, 324, 331. ‘Easy Chair’ papers, 419, 422, 425, 430. Edinburgh, University of, confers degree on Holmes, 341. _El Dorado_, 403. _Elsie Venner_, 340, 352. _Embargo, The_, 36.