The village of Concord has perhaps done more for American literature than the city of New York. Certainly there are few places where associations, both patriotic and poetic, cluster so thickly. At one side of the grounds of the Old Manse--which has the river at its back--runs down a shaded lane to the Concord monument and the figure of the Minute Man and the successor of "the rude bridge that arched the flood." Scarce two miles away, among the woods, is little Walden--"God's drop." The men who made Concord famous are asleep in Sleepy Hollow, yet still their memory prevails to draw seekers after truth to the Concord Summer School of Philosophy, which met annually, a few years since, to reason high of "God, Freedom, and Immortality," next door to the "Wayside," and under the hill on whose ridge Hawthorne wore a path as he paced up and down beneath the hemlocks. 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson. _Nature_. _The American Scholar_. _Literary Ethics_. _The Transcendentalism_. _The Over-soul_. _Address before the Cambridge Divinity School_. _English Traits_. _Representative Men_. _Poems_. 2. Henry David Thoreau. _Excursions_. _Walden_. _A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers_. _Cape Cod_. _The Maine Woods_. 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne. _Mosses from an Old Manse_. _The Scarlet Letter_. _The House of the Seven Gables_. _The Blithedale Romance_. _The Marble Faun_. _Our Old Home_. 4. _Transcendentalism in New England_. By O. B. Frothingham. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1875. [1]The Indian name of Concord River. CHAPTER V. THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS. 1837-1861.