Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 19, 24, 27, 28; on individuality, 53, 54; 59, 76, 78, 105, 106, 119; as a poet, 122; as a critic, 122, 123; 124, 132, 136; his Nature, 164; an example of poetic prose from, 164; 181, 182, 184; his appeal chiefly to youth and early manhood, 191; never ceased to be a clergyman, 192; no prosaic side, 192; his sympathy for ideas rather than for men or things, 193, 194; his inborn radicalism, 194, 195: abstract in his aim and concrete in his methods, 196; his suggestiveness, 205; 223, 228-230, 237; his attitude toward the past, 238; quotations from, 24, 53, 54, 59, 164, 193-195. English poetry, 165. English writers, 7, 63. Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), 6, 119, 121. Everett, Edward, 5. Family tree, the, 47, 48. Fashions, 2. Ferguson, Charles, his _Religion of Democracy_, quotations from, 210, 211. Fern-owl, 175. Fiction, values in, 6, 7; a finer but not a greater art to-day than formerly, 60, 61. Fieldfare, 174. Flaubert, Gustave, 19. France, Anatole, 112. Franklin, Benjamin, his Autobiography, 226. Freeman, Edward Augustus, 5. French art, 146. French criticism, 97. French poetry, more eloquent than poetic, 165. French writers, modern, 7, 63. Froude, James Anthony, 5; his style, 68. George, Henry, as a writer, 9. German writers, 7. Gibbon, Edward, 78, 163. Gladden, Rev. Washington, his _Art and Morality_, 143, 144; quotation from, 143. God, the old and the new ideas of, 152. _Goethe, Conversations with_, 225. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 93, 123, 127; his _Sorrows of Young Werther_, 138; 141; on poetical and unpoetical objects, 157; on Byron, 165; 184; quotations from, 141, 157. Gosse, Edmund, his _Questions at Issue_, 153, 154; quotation from, 154. Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson, his _Memoirs_, 5, 227; an elemental man, 6; his greatness of the democratic type, 113, 114; his commonness, 115; his lack of vanity, 227. Gray, Thomas, 53, 103; his _Elegy in a Country Churchyard_, 137. Greeks, the, their view of Nature, 203. Grimm, Hermann, 93. Grouse, ruffed (_Bonasa umbellus_), 174. Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume, 119. Halleck, Fitz-Greene, his _Marco Bozzaris_, 166. Happiness, negative happiness the most one ought to expect, 244; one’s capacity for happiness not affected permanently by adventitious circumstances, 244-248; congenial work essential to, 248-256. Harrison, Frederic, 25, 61. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7; the most suggestive of our romancers, 205. Heine, Heinrich, 80. Hennequin, his _Scientific Criticism_, 109. Heronry, 177. Hewlett, Maurice, 25, 26; quotation from, 25. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 72.