interests himself in Underwood’s magazine, 355; loses his wife, 357; has dreams of her and Walter, 358; prints her poems, 359; his solitude, 361; takes comfort in his daughter, 363; engages in literary jobs, 364; spends a summer in Beverly, 365; makes the acquaintance of Stillman, 367; writes _Ode to Happiness_, 368; lectures on poetry before the Lowell Institute, 370; is appointed successor to Longfellow in the Smith professorship at Harvard, 376; goes West on a lecturing tour, 378; has a farewell dinner given him, 378; sails for Havre, 380; goes to Paris and Chartres, 380; to London, 381; settles in Dresden for autumn and winter, 381; takes lessons in German and Spanish, 382; goes to Italy in the spring, 383; returns to Dresden and to America, 381; establishes himself at Dr. Howe’s, 384; takes up his college work, 385; discourses on philology and æsthetics, 386; on the modern languages compared with the ancient as disciplinary studies, 387; the character of his teaching, 388; his interest in literature as compelling force, 389; his indebtedness to Dante, 390; his relation to students, 391; his use of object-aids, 392; his manner in teaching, 393; his indifference to academic routine, 395; the generosity of his teaching-gifts, 396; his hospitality to his students, 398; what he got from his teaching, 399; effect of academic life on productiveness, 400; second marriage, 401; comments on his wife and her family, 401, 402; goes to the Adirondacks, 404; his appreciation of wild life, 405; his attitude toward poetry, 406; asked to edit a magazine, 408; goes to dine with M. D. Phillips, 411; becomes editor of the _Atlantic_, 412; makes it a condition that Dr. Holmes shall contribute, 413; writes to Emerson on his contributions, 414; and to Whittier, 417; writes regarding terms of payment, 421; to R. G. White on anonymity, 422; compares the situation with that of a later date, 423; upon the independence of the magazine, 424; his qualifications for his post, 425; his editorial function compared with that of his successors, 427; his attitude toward contributors, 428; his weariness of his routine, 429; his regard for criticism, 430; his own work as reviewer, 432; his thoroughness, 433; his injection of fun, 434; his proposal to dictate five love-stories at once, 437; writes a Lambish letter to Captain Parker, 438; his impatience over details, 441; his respect for proof-reading, 444; his loss of spontaneity, 445; his diversion, 446; goes to club dinners, 447; his critical faculty, 449; concerned over the transfer of the _Atlantic_, 450; gives his judgment of Ticknor & Fields, 451; yields editorship of _Atlantic_ to Mr. Fields, 453; returns to Elmwood to live, 453; views on his own poetry, 454.