wice Told Tales"
and "Mosses from an Old Manse" published
in _Godey's Magazine_ in 1846) 19
III Of Willis, Bryant, Halleck and Macaulay.
(Passages selected from articles printed in
Volume II of the "Works of Poe") 25

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES--(Born in 1809, died in 1894.)
I Of Doctors, Lawyers and Ministers.
(From Chapter V of "The Poet at the Breakfast Table") 31
II Of the Genius of Emerson.
(From an address before the Massachusetts Historical
Society in 1882) 36
III The House in Which the Professor Lived.
(From Part X of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table") 42
IV Of Women Who Put on Airs.
(From Part XI of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table") 49

MARGARET FULLER--(Born in 1810, lost in a shipwreck off
Fire Island in 1850.)
I Her Visit to George Sand.
(From a letter to Elizabeth Hoar) 52
II Two Glimpses of Carlyle.
(From a letter to Emerson) 54

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 Chapte