withdraws his name, 300; addresses the students at St. Andrews, 301; his monomania on Jews 302; unveils bust of Longfellow, 305; receives degree at Edinburgh, 306; speaks on the newspaper, 307; analyses Wordsworth’s power, 309; his attitude toward the church, 311; his address on Democracy, 313; tenure of his diplomatic position, 316; his hesitation about leaving England, 317; is sounded about accepting a professorship at Oxford, 318; death of his wife, 319; his words respecting her, 319, 320; speaks on Coleridge, 321; returns to America, 321; makes his home for the time being at Deerfoot Farm, 322; takes up letter-writing as an occupation, 323; his dependence on women, 324; goes to Washington, 324; begins to feel his age, 325; gives an address at Chelsea, 326; is president of American Archæological Institute, 326; attends a hearing on international copyright, 326; addresses the committee, 327-332; writes an epigram on the subject, 333; makes an epigram on Gladstone, 334; his life in London, 335; is harassed by his approaching Harvard address, 337; annoyed by an interview, 337; delivers his oration at Harvard, 338; edits letters of Landor, 342; makes rhymes for Mrs. Gilder, 343, note; writes an introduction to “The World’s Progress,” 344; his need of economy, 349; his reputation, capital, 350; goes to Chicago to give an address on Washington’s Birthday, 351; gives six lectures on the Old Dramatists before the Lowell Institute, 352; sails for England in spring of 1888, 355; his life at Whitby, 356; is at work on his new volume of poems, 357; doubts about his work, 358; writes to Mrs. Bell about Feltham, 359; presides at an Authors’ Reading and discourses on American literature, 361; writes poems which reflect his deeper nature, 368; makes a slight beginning on his _Hawthorne_, 372; issues his _Political Essays_, 372; utters valedictories, 373; gives his address on _The Independent in Politics_, 374; his faith in his early ideals, 376; makes a speech before the Civil Service Reform Association, 377; goes to England in the spring of 1888, 379; attends commemoration at Bologna and receives a degree, 379; is again at Whitby, 380; his antidote to sleeplessness, 383; visits St. Ives and returns to London, 384; writes to Misses Lawrence, 384; returns to America and spends the winter in Boston, 386; visits Washington, 387; celebrates his seventieth birthday, 387; gives up writing a paper on John Bright, 388; writes on Walton, 389; makes an after-dinner speech on “Our Literature,” 390; makes a final visit to England, 391; writes _The Brook_, 393; returns to Elmwood, 393; works at a uniform edition of his writings, 394; his judgment on his early poems, 395; suffers the first severe illness of his life, 396; writes _The Infant Prodigy_, 397; receives a visit from Mr. Stephen, 398; writes of Milton, 398;