III Leather-Stocking's Farewell. (From "The Pioneers") 185 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT--(Born in 1794, died in 1878.) An October Day in Florence. (From a letter) 194 WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT--(Born in 1796, died in 1859.) I The Fate of Egmont and Hoorne. (From "Philip II") 198 II The Genesis of Don Quixote. (From the "Miscellanies") 209 GEORGE BANCROFT--(Born in 1800, died in 1891.) The Fate of Evangeline's Countrymen. (From the "History of the United States") 217 RALPH WALDO EMERSON--(Born in 1803, died in 1882.) I Thoreau's Broken Task. (From the "Funeral Address") 223 II The Intellectual Honesty of Montaigne. (From "Representative Men") 229 III His Visit to Carlyle at Craigen-puttock. (From "English Traits") 231 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE--(Born in 1804, died in 1864.) I Occupants of an Old Manse. (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") 235 II Arthur Dimmesdale on the Scaffold. (From "The Scarlet Letter") 242 III Of Life at Brook Farm. (From "The Blithedale Romance") 248 IV The Death of Judge Pyncheon. (From "The House of the Seven Gables") 252 * * * * * AMERICA--I 1579-1891 JOHN SMITH Born in England in 1579, died in 1631; served against the Turks, captured, but escaped and returned to England in 1605; sailed for Virginia in 1606, and helped to found Jamestown; captured by Indians and his life saved by Pocahontas the same year; explored the Chesapeake to its head; president of the Colony in 1608; returned to London in 1609; in 1614 explored the coast of New England; captured by the French in 1615 and escaped the same year; received the title of Admiral of New England in 1617; published his "True Relation" in 1608, "Map of Virginia" in 1612, "A Description of New England" in 1616, "New England's Trials" in 1620, and his "General History" in 1624. HIS STORY OF POCAHONTAS[1]