Books, use and abuse, 110, 111. (See _Emerson's Essays_.) Boston, Mass.: First Church, 10, 12, 13; Woman's Club, 16; Harbor, 19; nebular spot, 25, 26; its pulpit darling, 27; Episcopacy, 28; Athenaeum, 31; magazines, 28-34; intellectual character, lights on its three hills, high caste religion, 34; Samaria and Jerusalem, 35; streets and squares, 37-39; Latin School, 39, 40, 43; new buildings, 42; Mrs. Emerson's boarding-house, the Common as a pasture, 43; Unitarian preaching, 51; a New England centre, 52; Emerson's settlement, 54; Second Church, 55-61; lectures, 87, 88, 191; Trimount Oracle, 102; stirred by the Divinity-School address, 126; school-keeping, Roxbury, 129; aesthetic society, 149; Transcendentalists, 155, 156; Bay, 172; Freeman Place Chapel, 210: Saturday Club, 221-223; Burns Centennial, 224, 225; Parker meeting, 228; letters, 263, 274, 275; Old South lecture, 294; Unitarianism, 298; Emancipation Proclamation, 307; special train, 350; Sons of Liberty, 369; birthplace, 407; Baptists, 413. Boswell, James: allusion, 138; one lacking, 223; Life of Johnson, 268. Botany, 403. (See _Science_.) Bowen, Francis: literary rank, 34; on Nature, 103, 104. Brook Farm, 159, 164-166, 189, 191. (See _Transcendentalism_, etc.) Brown, Howard N., prayer, 355. Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. (See _Anti-Slavery, South_.) Brownson, Orestes A., at a party, 149. Bryant, William Cullen: his literary rank, 33; redundant syllable, 328; his translation of Homer quoted, 378. Buckminster, Joseph Stevens: minister in Boston, 12, 26, 27, 52; Memoir, 29; destruction of Goldau, 31. Buddhism: like Transcendentalism, 151; Buddhist nature, 188; saints 298. (See _Emerson's Poems_,--Brahma, --_India_, etc.) Buffon, on style, 341. Bulkeley Family, 4-7. Bulkeley, Peter: minister of Concord, 4-7, 71; comparison of sermons, 57; patriotism, 72; landowner, 327. Bunyan, John, quoted, 169. Burke, Edmund: essay, 73; times mentioned, 382. Burns, Robert: festival, 224, 225; rank, 281; image referred to, 386; religious position, 409. (See _Scotland_.) Burroughs, John, view of English life, 335. Burton, Robert, quotations, 109, 381. Buttrick, Major, in the Revolution, 71, 72. Byron, Lord: allusion, 16; rank, 281; disdain, 321; uncertain sky, 335; parallelism, 399. CABOT, J. ELLIOT: on Emerson's literary habits, 27; The Dial, 159; prefaces, 283, 302; Note, 295, 296; Prefatory Note, 310, 311; the last meetings, 347, 348. Caesar, Julius, 184,197. California, trip, 263-271, 359. (See _Thayer_.) Calvin, John: his Commentary, 103; used by Cotton, 286.