Emerson, Ralph Waldo: his ancestry, 147; boyhood, 148; education, 149; ordination and withdrawal from the ministry, 149, 150; begins lecturing, 151; settles in Concord, 151; notable addresses, 152; connection with Transcendental movement, 152; lecture tour in England, 154; position on slavery, 155; list of his works, 155; visitor to West Point and overseer of Harvard, 156; nominated for Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 156; death, 157; character, 157; criticism of his works, 160–186; quoted, on Bancroft, 103, 109; club meetings in his library, 418; Holmes’s life of, 354. Emerson family, 147. _English Lands, Letters, and Kings_, 449. _English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne_, 292, 315. _English Traits_, 156, 173. _Evangeline_, 225; metre of, 231; stimulating effect of, on Clough, 232; popularity of, 240. Everett, Alexander, influential in Irving’s going to Spain, 8. Everett, Edward, 102. _Excursions_, Thoreau’s, 324, 330, 332. _Fable, A, for Critics_, 456, 458, 468. Fairchild, Frances, wife of William Cullen Bryant, 38. _Familiar Letters_, Thoreau’s, 324, 326, 332. _Fanshawe_, 288. _Faust_, Taylor’s translation of, 405, 410. Ferdinand and Isabella, Prescott’s history of, 127, 131, 132. ‘Fighting parson, the,’ 148. _Fireside Travels_, 459, 474. Fiske, John, cited, on Longfellow’s treatment of Cotton Mather in _The New England Tragedies_, 247. Fitzgerald, Edward, 237. _French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne_, 292, 315. Freeman, Edward A., quoted, 31. _Fresh Gleanings_, 439, 443, 444. ‘Frogpondians,’ 200. Frontenac, Count, in the New World, 393. _Fudge Doings_, 441, 445. Fuller, Margaret, 153; Emerson’s _Memoirs_ of, 156; her attack on Longfellow, 229; schoolmate of Holmes, 338. Gardiner, John, 124. Garnett, Richard, quoted, on Emerson, 185. Garrison, William Lloyd, his relations with Whittier, 257, 258. Gay, Sidney Howard, 42, 456. _Giles Corey of the Salem Farms_, 246. _Gleanings in Europe_, Cooper’s, 94. Godwin, Parke, quoted, on Bryant, 44. Goethe, Emerson’s estimate of, 173. ‘Gold-Bug, The,’ wins prize, 196. _Golden Legend, The_, 225, 245, 246. Goldsmith, Irving’s life of, 27; reference to his work, 449. ‘Graham’s Magazine,’ Poe’s connection with, 195. _Grandfather’s Chair_, 289, 300. Greeley, Horace, his advice to Taylor on writing letters of travel, 402. Green, John Richard, quoted, on Motley, 364. Greenough, Horatio, quotation from letter of, to Cooper, 93. Griswold, Rufus W., 196. _Guardian Angel, The_, 340, 352. _Guide, A, in the Wilderness_, 66 (note). _Gulliver’s Travels_, Irish bishop’s remark concerning, 76. _Half-Century, A, of Conflict_, 382, 391, 394. _Hannah Thurston_, 405. Hansen, Marie, wife of Bayard Taylor, 406.