

CONTENTS. 



Paqe 



My G-aeden Acquaintance 1 



A Good Word for Winter ..... 24 



On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners . . 54 



A Great Public Character 83 



Carltle 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 38o 



