INDEX A Adams, C. F, 7. Adams, John, opinion of American independence, 11-12; as a writer, 73. Adams, Samuel, 73-74, 209. After the Burial, Lowell, 172. Agassiz, Fiftieth Birthday of, Longfellow, 156. Age of Reason, Paine, 75. Ages, The, Bryant, 104. Alcott, Bronson, 118, 119, 139-140. Aldrich, T. B., 256-257. Alhambra, The, Irving, 91. Allen, J. L., 247. American Anthology, Stedman, 256. American characteristics, 3-5. American colonies, literature in the 17th century, 25-42; journalism, 60-62; education, 62-63; science, 63-64; bibliography of the literature, 269-270. American colonists, predominantly English, 12-25; motives for emigration, 16; moulded by pioneer life, 17-23; in 1760, 59-60. "American idea," 206-207. American life since the Civil War, 234 et seq. American literature, the term, 6. American Mercury, 61. American Scholar, The, Emerson, 123. Ames, Fisher, 88. Among my Books, Lowell, 170. Andrew Rykman's Prayer, Whittier, 161. Annabel Lee, Poe, 192. Anthologies, American, 269. Arsenal at Springfield, The, Longfellow, 156. Assignation, The, Poe, 193. Astoria, Irving, 91. Atala, Châteaubriand, 96. Atlantic Monthly, 161, 167, 170, 250, 257. Autobiography, Franklin, 58-59. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, Holmes, 164, 167. B Bacchus, Emerson, 129. Ballad of the French Fleet, A, Longfellow, 155. Bancroft, George, 89, 176, 177-178. Barefoot Boy, The, Whittier, 158. Bartol, C. A., 115. Battle Hymn of the Republic, Howe, 224, 225. Battle of the Kegs, The, Hopkinson, 69. Bay Psalm Book, 35. Beecher, H. W., 216-217. Belfry of Bruges, The, Longfellow, 156. Bells, The, Poe, 5-6, 192. Biglow Papers, The, Lowell, 170, 172, 173. Black Cat, The, Poe, 194. Blaine, J. G., quoted, 163. Blithedale Romance, The, Hawthorne, 145-146, 150-151. Boston News-Letter, 60. Boy's Town, A, Howells, 250. Bracebridge Hall, Irving, 91. Bradford, William, 28. Bradstreet, Anne, 36-37. Bridge, The, Longfellow, 156. Briggs, C. F., quoted, 190. Brook Farm, 140, 143. Brooklyn Eagle, The, 199. Brown, Alice, 249, 250. Brown University, 62. Brownell, H. H., 225. Brownson, Orestes, 141. Bryant, W. C., one of the Knickerbocker Group, 89; personal appearance, 101; life and, writings, 101-106; died (1878), 255. "Buffalo Bill," see Cody, W. F. Building of the Ship, The, Longfellow, 155. Burroughs, John, 262. By Blue Ontario's Shore, Whitman, 204. Byrd, William, 44.