Produced by Chuck Greif, MWS, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL _A BIOGRAPHY_ BY HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II [Illustration: _Mr. Lowell in his Oxford Gown_] JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A Biography BY HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1901 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HORACE E. SCUDDER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1901 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE X. LOWELL AND THE WAR FOR THE UNION 1 XI. POETRY AND PROSE 74 XII. THIRD JOURNEY IN EUROPE 151 XIII. POLITICS 185 XIV. THE SPANISH MISSION 221 XV. THE ENGLISH MISSION 259 XVI. RETURN TO PRIVATE LIFE 322 XVII. THE LAST YEARS 379 APPENDIX _A._ The Lowell Ancestry 409 _B._ “List of Copies of the Conversations to be given away by the ‘Don’” 419 _C._ A List of the Writings of James Russell Lowell, arranged as nearly as may be in order of Publication 421 _D._ The Lowell Memorial in Westminster Abbey 448 INDEX 453 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL IN 1882. _Frontispiece_ From the painting by Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt. FACSIMILE OF THE SOWER 64 ELMWOOD 120 From a photograph. MR. LOWELL IN HIS STUDY 186 From a photograph. MRS. FRANCES DUNLAP LOWELL 318 From a crayon by S. W. Rowse.