III. _The Artist_ 409 IV. _Poetical Works_ 410 GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS I. _His Life_ 417 II. _The Man_ 423 III. _The Writer and the Orator_ 424 IV. _Nile Notes of a Howadji, Prue and I, Trumps_ 427 V. _The Easy Chair_ 430 VI. _Orations and Addresses_ 433 DONALD GRANT MITCHELL I. _His Life_ 439 II. _The Author and the Man_ 442 III. _The Writings_ 444 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 451 I. _His Life_ 453 II. _Lowell’s Character_ 461 III. _Poet and Prose Writer_ 463 IV. _Poems, The Biglow Papers, Fable for Critics, Vision of Sir Launfal_ 465 V. _Under the Willows, The Cathedral, Commemoration Ode, Three Memorial Poems, Heartsease and Rue_ 469 VI. _Fireside Travels, My Study Windows, Among my Books, Latest Literary Essays_ 474 VII. _Political Addresses and Papers_ 479 WALT WHITMAN I. _His Life_ 485 II. _The Growth of a Reputation_ 490 III. _The Writer_ 492 IV. _Leaves of Grass_ 494 V. _Specimen Days and Collect_ 503 VI. _Whitman’s Character_ 504 I _Washington Irving_ REFERENCES: [=E. A. Duyckinck=]: _Irvingiana, a Memorial of Washington Irving_, 1860. =W. C. Bryant=: _A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Genius of Washington Irving_, 1860. =Pierre M. Irving=: _The Life and Letters of Washington Irving_, 1862–64. =C. D. Warner=: _The Work of Washington Irving_, 1893. I HIS LIFE Scotch and English blood flowed in Washington Irving’s veins. His father, William Irving (whose ancestry has been traced by genealogical enthusiasts to De Irwyn, armor-bearer to Robert Bruce), was a native of Shapinsha, one of the Orkney Islands; his mother, Sarah (Sanders) Irving, came from Falmouth.