Whitman, Walt: his ancestry, 485; education and early occupations, 486; journeyings in the United States, 486; publication of _Leaves of Grass_, 487; work as army nurse and government clerk, 487; life in Camden, N. J., 488; list of his writings, 488; subsidence of opposition, 489; growth of his reputation, 490; English admirers, 491; his Boston publisher threatened with prosecution, 492; criticism of his work, 492–496; his character, 504; mention of, in comparison with Longfellow, 250. Whitman family, 485. Whittier, John Greenleaf; his ancestry, 255; boyhood, 256; early writings, 257; beginning of acquaintance with Garrison, 258; attends Haverhill Academy, 258; editorial work, 259–261; beginning of anti-slavery work, 259; encounters with mobs, 260; love of country life, 260; lists of his works, 261, 263; contributions to ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ 262; overseer of Harvard College, 262; places of residence, 262; death, 263; character, 264; his literary art, 266; criticism of his works, 269–283; his description of Bayard Taylor, 408. Whittier family, 255. _Wing-and-Wing_, 66, 71, 86. _Winter_, Thoreau’s, 324, 331. _Wolfert’s Roost_, 27. _Wonder-Book, The_, 292, 301. Worsley, Philip S., quoted, 58. _Wyandotté_, 71, 81. Ximenes, Mateo, his association with Irving, 25. _Yankee, A, in Canada_, 324, 331. _Year’s Life, A_, 455. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Transcriber removed redundant chapter headings. Lists of reference materials, originally printed at the bottom of the first page of each biography, have been moved to just after the chapter headings and labelled as “References:” by the Transcriber. Footnotes, originally printed at the bottoms of pages, have been renumbered, collected, moved to the ends of their chapters, and labelled as “Footnotes:” by the Transcriber.