HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES, BY A VIRGINIAN SPENDING A JULY IN VERMONT: _Literary World_, August 17, August 24, 1850 123 COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! OR THE CROWING OF THE NOBLE COCK BENEVENTANO: _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, November-December 1853 144 THE TWO TEMPLES 173 POOR MAN’S PUDDING AND RICH MAN’S CRUMBS: _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, June 1854 192 THE HAPPY FAILURE, A STORY OF THE RIVER HUDSON: _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, July 1854 210 THE FIDDLER: _Putnam’s Monthly Magazine_, September 1854 220 THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS: _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, April 1855 228 JIMMY ROSE: _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, November 1855 255 THE ’GEES: _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, March 1856 268 I AND MY CHIMNEY: _Putnam’s Monthly Magazine_, March 1856 276 THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, OR ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS: _Putnam’s Monthly Magazine_, May 1856 312 UNDER THE ROSE 339 THE MARQUIS DE GRANDVIN 346 PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN 353 TO MAJOR JOHN GENTIAN, DEAN OF THE BURGUNDY CLUB 358 JACK GENTIAN 369 MAYOR GENTIAN AND COLONEL J. BUNKUM 373 THE CINCINNATI 378 FRAGMENT 381 FRAGMENTS FROM A WRITING-DESK 382 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BILLY BUDD, FORETOPMAN WHAT BEFELL HIM IN THE YEAR OF THE GREAT MUTINY, ETC. Friday, Nov. 16, 1888--begun. Revision begun--March 2, 1889. Finished--April 19, 1891. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEDICATED TO JACK CHASE ENGLISHMAN WHEREVER THAT GREAT HEART MAY NOW BE HERE ON EARTH OR HARBOURED IN PARADISE CAPTAIN OF THE MAIN-TOP IN THE YEAR 1843 IN THE U.S. FRIGATE ‘UNITED STATES’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE