_Poets and Poetry of Europe_, 225, 237. _Potiphar Papers, The_, 419, 429. Potter, Mary Storer, wife of Longfellow, 223, 224. _Prairie, The_, 68, 80. _Precaution_, 67. Prentice, George, 259. Prescott, William Hickling: his ancestry, 123; education, 124; accident to his eyes, 125; marriage, 125; beginning of his literary work, 126; list of his works, 127; death, 127; character, 128; his style, 130; criticism of his works, 132–143; his aid to Motley, 361. Prescott family, 123. _Prince Deukalion_, 405, 413. _Professor, The, at the Breakfast-Table_, 340, 347. _Prophet, The_, 405, 413. _Prue and I_, 419, 430. Puritan and Cavalier, Bancroft’s comparison of, 111. ‘Putnam’s Magazine,’ Curtis’s connection with, 419; Lowell’s, 457. ‘Quaker Poet,’ 256. Quakers, Longfellow’s treatment of, in _John Endicott_, 246; relations of the Whittier family to, 257, 262, 272. ‘Raven, The,’ 196, 215. _Red Rover, The_, 68, 71, 84, 86. _Redskins, The_, 71, 95. _Representative Men_, 155, 171. _Reveries of a Bachelor_, 440, 443, 446, 450. Ripley, George, 153. _Rise, The, of the Dutch Republic_, 362, 369. Rogers, Samuel, Bryant dedicates book to, 41. Round Hill School for Boys, Bancroft’s connection with, 103, 104; Longfellow considers buying, 224; Motley a student at, 359. St. Boniface, Church of, Winnipeg, honors Whittier, 263. St. Botolph Club, Boston, Parkman’s connection with, 383. _Salmagundi_, 6. _Satanstoe_, 71, 95, 96. ‘Saturday Visitor, The,’ offers prizes, for which Poe competes, 192. _Scarlet Letter, The_, 290, 302. _Sea Lions, The_, 71, 96. _Seaside, The, and the Fireside_, 225, 237. _Septimius Felton_, 292, 316. _Seven Stories_, 441, 447. Shakespeare, Emerson’s estimate of, 172. Shaw, Anna, wife of George William Curtis, 420. Shays’s Rebellion, incident of, 102. Simms, William Gilmore, his advice to Poe, 201. _Sketch Book, The_, 7, 15, 234. _Sketches of Switzerland_, Cooper’s, 94. Smith, Goldwin, 300. Smithell’s Hall, Bolton-le-Moors, tradition connected with, 316. _Snow Image, The_, 292, 301. _Snow-Bound_, 263, 267, 278. _Society and Solitude_, 156, 182. _Songs of Labor_, 262, 276. ‘Southern Literary Messenger, The,’ Poe’s connection with, 193. _Spanish Student, The_, 225, 239. _Specimen Days and Collect_, 489, 503. _Spy, The_, 67, 71, 75. Stanley, Dean, quoted, on Motley, 364. Stedman, Edmund C., quoted on Poe, 212. Stephen, Leslie, quoted, 32. _Story, The, of Kennett_, 406. _Summer_, Thoreau’s, 324, 331. ‘Sunnyside,’ Irving’s home, 9. _Supernaturalism, The, of New England_, 261, 268. Swedenborg, Emanuel, 172. Swinburne, A. C., quotation from, applied to Whitman, 495. Tâché, Archbishop, 263. _Tales of a Traveller_, 7, 18. _Tales of a Wayside Inn_, 226, 243. _Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque_, 195, 203–211.