Samuel Longfellow's _Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Extracts from his Journals and Correspondence_, 3 vols. Higginson's _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_. Carpenter's _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_. Robertson's _Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_. Carpenter's _John Greenleaf Whittier_. Higginson's _John Greenleaf Whittier_. Perry's _John Greenleaf Whittier_. Pickard's _Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier_, 2 vols. Pickard's _Whittier-Land_. Greenslet's _James Russell Lowell, his Life and Work_. Hale's _James Russell Lowell_. (_Beacon Biographies_.) Scudder's _James Russell Lowell, A Biography_, 2 vols. Hale's _James Russell Lowell and his Friends_. James Russell Lowell's _Letters_, edited by Charles Eliot Norton. Morse's _Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes_, 2 vols. Haweis's _American Humorists_. Ticknor's _Life of William Hickling Prescott_. Ogden's _William Hickling Prescott_. Peck's _William Hickling Prescott_. Holmes's _John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir_. Curtis's _The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley_. Sedgwick's _Francis Parkman_. Farnham's _A Life of Francis Parkman_. SUGGESTED READINGS Since the works of the authors of the New England group are nearly always accessible, it is not usually necessary to specify editions or the exact place where the readings may be found. Those who prefer to use books of selections will find that Page's _The Chief American Poets_, 713 pp., contains nearly all of the poems recommended for reading. Prose selections may be found in Carpenter's _American Prose_, and still more extended selections in Stedman and Hutchinson's _Library of American Literature_. TRANSCENDENTALISM AND THE DIAL.--Read Emerson's lecture on _The Transcendentalist_, published in the volume called _Nature, Addresses, and Lectures_. _The Dial_ is very rare and difficult to obtain outside of a large library. George Willis Cooke has collected in one volume under the title, _The Poets of Transcendentalism, An Anthology_ (1903), 341 pp., some of the best of the poems published in _The Dial_, as well as much transcendental verse that appeared elsewhere. SLAVERY AND ORATORY.--Selections from _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ may be found in Carpenter, 312-322; S. & H., VII., 132-144. Webster's _Reply to Hayne_ is given in Johnston's _American Orations_, Vol. I., 248-302. There are excellent selections from Webster in Carpenter, 105-118, and S. & H., IV., 462-469. Selections from the other orators mentioned may be found in Johnston and S. & H. EMERSON.--Read from the volume, _Nature, Addresses, and Lectures_, the chapters called _Nature_, _Beauty_, _Idealism_, and the "literary declaration of independence" in his lecture, _The American Scholar_. From the various other volumes of his _Essays_, read _Self-Reliance_, _Friendship_, _Character_, _Civilization_.