‘New York Evening Post,’ Bryant’s connection with, 39. ‘New York Review and Athenæum Magazine,’ Bryant’s editorship of, 38. _Nile Notes of a Howadji_, 419, 427. ‘North American Review,’ Bryant’s early contributions to, 37; Lowell’s connection with, 458. Norton, Andrews, his disagreement with Emerson, 152. _Oak Openings, The_, 71, 95. ‘Old Manse, The,’ 147; Hawthorne’s occupancy of, 290. _Old Portraits and Modern Sketches_, 262, 269. _Old Régime, The_, 382, 391, 393. ‘On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners,’ 460. _Oregon Trail, The_, 381, 387. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller. See Fuller, Margaret. Otsego Hall, home of the Coopers, 66, 69. _Our Hundred Days in Europe_, 340, 348. _Our Old Home_, 292; anecdote of the dedication of, to Franklin Pierce, 295; character of, 314. _Outre-Mer_, 225, 233, 234. _Over the Teacups_, 340, 348, 355. Oxford, University of, confers degree on Longfellow, 227; on Holmes, 340; on Motley, 363; on Lowell, 459. Parkman, Francis: his ancestry, 379; education, 380; interest in Indian life, 380; first book, 381; marriage, 381; ill health, 381; list of his works, 382; honors, 383; character, 383; literary style, 385; criticism of his works, 387–398. Parkman family, 379. Pastorius, Daniel, the subject of the _Pennsylvania Pilgrim_, 280. _Pathfinder, The_, 67, 71, 81. Paulding, J. K., 6. Peabody, Sophia, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 289. ‘Penn Magazine, The,’ projected by Poe, 195. Pennsylvania Hall, sacking of, by a pro-slavery mob, 260. _Pennsylvania Pilgrim, The_, 263, 280. Phi Beta Kappa poem by Bryant, 38. Philip the Second, Bancroft’s history of, 127, 131, 141; Motley’s treatment of, 372–375. _Picture, The, of St. John_, 405, 409, 412. Pierce, Franklin: his friendship with Hawthorne, 288, 293; Hawthorne’s life of, 292. _Pilot, The_, 67, 71, 82. ‘Pioneer, The,’ Lowell’s magazine, 454. _Pioneers, The_, 66, 67, 71, 77. _Pioneers, The, of France in the New World_, 382, 391. Pizarro, Francisco, his exploits in Peru, 138. Pizarro, Gonzalo, his march across the Andes, 140. Plato, Emerson on, 171. Poe, Edgar Allan: his ancestry, 189; adoption by the Allans, 190; education, 190; enters West Point, 191; early writings, 192; marriage, 193; editorial work, 193; lecturing, 196; affair of the Boston Lyceum, 197, 200; death of his wife, 197; proposal of marriage to Mrs. Shelton, 198; death, 198; character, 198; style, 201; criticism of his works, 203–211; his work as a critic, 211–215; quality of his poetry, 215. _Poems of Home and Travel_, 405, 410. _Poems of the Orient_, 405, 411. _Poet, The, at the Breakfast-Table_, 340, 347. Poetry, quality, of, 49; Bryant’s theory of, 48–50; Poe’s, 213. _Poet’s Journal, The_, 405, 411.