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]

Here more than two hundred of those grim Courtiers stood wondering at
him [John Smith], as he had beene a monster; till Powhatan[2] and his
train had put themselves in their greatest braveries. Before a fire
upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of
Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by. On either hand did
sit a young wench of 16 or 18 years, and along on each side the house,
two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads
and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the
white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chain
of white beads about thei