OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ⭘ Admired by the English-speaking World ⭘ His Education and Popularity ⭘ Early Poems ⭘ Autocrat and Professor at the Breakfast Table ⭘ Holmes’ Genial and Lovable Nature ⭘ ‘Bill and Joe’ ⭘ ‘Union and Liberty’ ⭘ ‘Old Ironsides’ ⭘ ‘My Aunt’ ⭘ ‘The Height of the Ridiculous’ ⭘ ‘The Chambered Nautilus’ ⭘ ‘Old Age and the Professor’ (Prose) ⭘ ‘The Brain’ (Prose) ⭘ ‘My Last Walk with the School Mistress’ ⭘ ‘A Random Conversation on Old Maxims, Boston and other Towns’ JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. ⭘ Profoundest of American Poets ⭘ Early Life and Beginning in Literature ⭘ Marriage, and the Influence of his Wife ⭘ Home at Cambridge (view of) ⭘ Humorous Poems and Prose Writings ⭘ Longfellow’s Poem on Mrs. Lowell’s Death ⭘ Public Career of the Author ⭘ How Lowell is Regarded by Scholars ⭘ ‘The Gothic Genius’ (From ‘The Cathedral’) ⭘ ‘The Rose’ ⭘ ‘The Heritage’ ⭘ ‘Act For Truth’ ⭘ ‘The First Snow-Fall’ ⭘ ‘Fourth-of-July Ode’ ⭘ ‘The Dandelion’ ⭘ ‘The Alpine Sheep’ (by Mrs. Lowell) BAYARD TAYLOR. ⭘ Life as a Farmer Boy ⭘ Education ⭘ His First Book ⭘ Encouragement from Horace Greeley ⭘ A Two Years’ Tramp Through Europe ⭘ A Most Delightful Book of Travel ⭘ An Inveterate Nomad ⭘ Public Career of the Author ⭘ ‘The Bison Track’ ⭘ ‘The Song of the Camp’ ⭘ ‘Bedouin Song’ ⭘ ‘The Arab to the Palm’ ⭘ ‘Life on the Nile’ NATHANIEL P. WILLIS. ⭘ A Devotee of Fashion ⭘ Birth and Ancestors ⭘ Educational Facilities ⭘ His First Poems ⭘ A Four Years’ Tour in Europe ⭘ Marriage and Home ⭘ A Second Journey to England ⭘ Death ⭘ An Untiring Worker ⭘ ‘David’s Lament for Absalom’ ⭘ ‘The Dying Alchemist’ ⭘ ‘The Belfry Pigeon’ RICHARD HENRY STODDARD. ⭘ His Humble Origin and Early Struggles ⭘ Introduction into Literature ⭘ Stoddard’s Style ⭘ Literary Dinner in His Honor (1892) ⭘ Ik Marvel’s Letter and Whitcomb Riley’s Poem ⭘ ‘A Curtain Call’ ⭘ ‘Hymn to the Beautiful’ ⭘ ‘A Dirge’ ⭘ ‘The Shadow of the Hand’ ⭘ ‘A Serenade’ WALTER WHITMAN (WALT). ⭘ The Estimates of Critics ⭘ Charms of Whitman’s Poetry ⭘ Life and Works of the Poet ⭘ Biographies of the Poet ⭘ ‘Darest Thou Now, O Soul’ ⭘ ‘O Captain! My Captain’ ⭘ ‘In All, Myself’ ⭘ ‘Old Ireland’ ⭘ ‘Pæan of Joy’ JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON. ⭘ Birth and Early Life ⭘ A Thorough Southerner ⭘ Man of Letters and Scientist ⭘ Chief of the State Geological Survey ⭘ Works of the Author ⭘ ‘Ceres’ ⭘ ‘Diana’