CONTENTS. 



Pa8E 



My GtArden Acquaintance 1 



A Good Word for Winter . . . . „ 24 



On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners . . 54 



A Great Public Character 83 



Carlyle . . . 115 



Abraham Lincoln 150 



The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival . 178 



Thoreau 193 



Swinburne's Tragedies 210 



Chaucer . . . 227 



Library of Old Authors ...... 290 



Emerson, the Lecturer 375 



Pope .... .«.•.. 385 



