“Within this wide circle, with the house its core, and the hearth its shrine, revolved the homely, cheerful, whole-hearted life of the farm.” 22 “Watching the crane and pendant trammels grow black against the blaze.” _See page 18_ 28 A corner of the room in which Whittier was born 28 “The study where Aldrich wrote some of his daintiest verse looks forth upon a sweet valley.” 30 “The study window in what was ‘The Bemis Place’ of the elder days of Ponkapoag.” _See page 35_ 36 Celia Thaxter’s home at the Isles of Shoals 44 “Chasms down which you may walk to the tide between sheer cliffs.” 50 “Up to the smooth turf on this knoll crowd all the pasture shrubs that she loved.” 58 “Here is the cairn erected to his memory, to which with doffed hat you may well add a stone.” _See page 65_ 66 “Walden is Walden still, very much as Thoreau painted it.” 70 “Pilgrim Lake,” where that first washing was done by the Pilgrim mothers 78 “That little creek that blocked the way of doughty Myles Standish and his men, sending them inland on a detour.” _See page 85_ 86 “Here in a volley was the summing up of the nature of the heroes that had grown up, quite literally, in the Concord soil.” _See page 93_ 92 “Hither, too, came Hawthorne, to tramp the woods as did the others, and feel as did they, the divine afflatus.” 98 “The water from the old well cooled the throat of his memory, and sparkled to the eye of it as he recalled the dripping bucket.” 114 The Newburyport home of Joshua Coffin, the early friend and teacher of Whittier 126 “Down river to the old chain bridge the rough rocks of the New Hampshire hills come to get a taste of salt.” _See page 129_ 130 One angle of “The House of the Seven Gables.” 150 “A Salem dock of the old sea-faring days.” 150 “The only sound was the crunch of soft snow and the splash of sap within the barrel.” _See page 171_ 172 “But here is a sweetness that the tree almost bursts to deliver.” 178 “The farmhouse where Bolles lived and loved the woods and all that therein lived with him.” _See page 197_ 198 Nightfall on Chocorua Lake 208 LITERARY PILGRIMAGES OF A NATURALIST LITERARY PILGRIMAGES OF A NATURALIST I IN OLD MARSHFIELD