HORACE GREELEY--(Born in 1811, died in 1872.) The Fatality of Self-Seeking in Editors and Authors. (Printed with the "Miscellanies" in the "Recollections of a Busy Life") 58 JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY--(Born in 1814, died in 1877.) I Charles V and Philip II in Brussels. (From Chapter I of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic") 63 II The Arrival of the Spanish Armada. (From Chapter XIX of the "History of the United Netherlands") 74 III "The Spanish Fury." (From Part IV, Chapter V, of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic") 84 RICHARD HENRY DANA, THE YOUNGER--(Born in 1815, died in 1882.) A Fierce Gale under a Clear Sky. (From "Two Years Before the Mast") 93 HENRY DAVID THOREAU--(Born in 1817, died in 1862.) I The Building of His House at Walden Pond. (From Chapter I of "Walden, or, Life in the Woods") 99 II How to Make Two Small Ends Meet. (From Chapters I and II of "Walden") 103 III On Reading the Ancient Classics. (From Chapter III of "Walden") 115 IV Of Society and Solitude. (From Chapter IV of "Walden") 120 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL--(Born in 1819, died in 1891.) I The Poet as Prophet. (From an essay contributed to _The Pioneer_ in 1843) 125 II The First of the Moderns. (From the first essay in the first series, entitled "Among My Books") 129 III Of Faults Found in Shakespeare. (From the essay entitled "Shakespeare Once More," printed in the first series entitled "Among My Books") 133 IV Americans as Successors of the Dutch. (From the essay entitled "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners," printed in "From My Study Window") 138 CHARLES A. DANA--(Born in 1819, died in 1897.) Greeley as a Man of Genius. (From an article printed in the New York _Sun_, December 5, 1872) 146 JAMES PARTON--(Born in 1822, died in 1891.) Aaron Burr and Madame Jumel. (From his "Life of Burr") 150