Grand Native Growth A Zollverein between the U. S. and Canada The St. Lawrence Line The Savage Saguenay Capes Eternity and Trinity Chicoutimi, and Ha-ha Bay The Inhabitants--Good Living Cedar-Plums Like--Names Death of Thomas Carlyle Carlyle from American Points of View A Couple of Old Friends--A Coleridge Bit A Week's Visit to Boston The Boston of To-Day My Tribute to Four Poets Millet's Pictures--Last Items Birds--and a Caution Samples of my Common-Place Book My Native Sand and Salt Once More Hot Weather New York "Ouster's Last Rally" Some Old Acquaintances--Memories A Discovery of Old Age A Visit, at the Last, to R. W. Emerson Other Concord Notations Boston Common--More of Emerson An Ossianic Night--Dearest Friends Only a New Ferry Boat Death of Longfellow Starting Newspapers The Great Unrest of which We are Part By Emerson's Grave At Present Writing--Personal After Trying a Certain Book Final Confessions--Literary Tests Nature and Democracy--Morality COLLECT ONE OR TWO INDEX ITEMS DEMOCRATIC VISTAS ORIGINS OF ATTEMPTED SECESSION PREFACES TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" Preface, 1855, to first issue of "Leaves of Grass" Preface, 1872, to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" Preface, 1876, to L. of G. and "Two Rivulets" POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA--SHAKESPEARE--THE FUTURE A MEMORANDUM AT A VENTURE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN TWO LETTERS NOTES LEFT OVER Nationality (and Yet) Emerson's Books (the Shadows of Them) Ventures, on an Old Theme British Literature Darwinism (then Furthermore) "Society" The Tramp and Strike Questions Democracy in the New World Foundation Stages--then Others General Suffrage, Elections, Etc. Who Gets the Plunder? Friendship (the Real Article) Lacks and Wants Yet Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses Monuments--the Past and Present Little or Nothing New After All A Lincoln Reminiscence Freedom Book-Classes-America's Literature Our Real Culmination An American Problem The Last Collective Compaction PIECES IN EARLY YOUTH Dough Face Song Death in the School-Room One Wicked Impulse The Last Loyalist Wild Frank's Return The Boy Lover The Child and the Profligate Lingave's Temptation Little Jane Dumb Kate Talk to an Art Union Blood-Money Wounded in the House of Friends Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight NOVEMBER BOUGHS OUR EMINENT VISITORS, Past, Present and Future THE BIBLE AS POETRY FATHER TAYLOR (AND ORATORY) THE SPANISH ELEMENT IN OUR NATIONALITY WHAT LURKS BEHIND SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL PLAYS? A THOUGHT ON SHAKSPERE ROBERT BURNS AS POET AND PERSON A WORD ABOUT TENNYSON SLANG IN AMERICA AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE SOME DIARY NOTES AT RANDOM Negro Slaves in New York Canada Nights Country Days and Nights Central Park Notes Plate Glass Notes SOME WAR MEMORANDA