INDEX 



Achievement and fame, 239-242. 



Addison, Joseph, 156. 



America, MaUhew Arnold's criti- 

 cism of, 82, 83, 107. 



Ancients, science of the, 48-51. 



Arnold, Matthew, 69 ; essentially a 

 critic and filled with the senti- 

 ment of culture, 81 ; his criticism 

 of British civilization, 81, 82, 87, 

 95-97, 99, 100, 117-119; his criti- 

 cism of America, 82, 83, 107 ; com- 

 pared and contrasted with Car- 

 lyle, 84-87, 93 ; preeminently a 

 critical force, 87, 88 ; a civilizing 

 and centralizing force, 88-90 ; a 

 serious and noble man, 90 ; his 

 published works, 90, 91 ; on criti- 

 cism, 91, 92 ; his Hellenism, 92- 

 119 ; a classic writer, 93, 94 ; his 

 devotion to culture, 94 ; on poetry 

 97-99; on religion and religious 

 worship, 100-105, 125 ; his advo- 

 cacy of institutionalism, 105-116 ; 

 on Benjamin JFranklin, 108, 109 ; 

 on Jeremy Bentham, 109 ; his ad- 

 miration of the Catholic Church, 

 112-116 ; efCect of his teaching, 

 116-118 ; as a critic of literature, 

 119-121, 131; his Celtic Litera- 

 ture, 119 ; his Translating HoTner, 

 119; on Wordsworth, 119; com- 

 pared with Saint-Beuve, 120, 121 ; 

 his style, 121, 122 ; consecutive- 

 ness of his ideas, 122-124, 136, 137; 

 his common-sense, 124, 125 ; his wit 

 and humor, 125-127 ; his Friend- 

 ship's Garland^ 126, 127 ; his 

 calm, unclouded intelligence, 127, 

 128 ; bis personal appearance, 129, 

 130; on Emerson, 129-136, 144, 

 145, 148, 151-154 ; on Carlyle, 129- 

 132, 143 ; on Cardinal Newman, 

 132 ; 150 ; his academic bias, 151 ; 

 156 ; the author's debt to, 250 ; 

 quotations from, 91-102, 104, 107- 

 114, 118, 119, 125-128, 132, 133, 

 136, 137, 143. 



Arrow-heads, Indian, 15, 36. 

 Astronomy, ancient, 50. 

 Audubon, John James, 55. 

 Autobiography, 243, 244. 



Bacon, Francis, 87, 156. 



Bentham, Jeremy, 109. 



Bible, the, Matthew Arnold on, 100, 

 101 ; 116. 



Birds, ground-building birds and 

 their nests, 175, 176 ; length of 

 the song season, 176 ; evolution 

 of, 196, 197. 



Birrell, Augustine, on Br. Johnson 

 and Carlyle, 198-200, 203. 



Blackbird, red-winged. See Star- 

 ling, red- shouldered. 



Bluebird {Sialia sialis), notes of, 

 37. 



Bobolink {Dolichonyx oryzivorus\ 

 175. 



Brown, Captain John, 6-8. 



Browning, Kobert, 72, 142 ; his in- 

 volved style, 250, 251. 



Biyant, William Cullen, 69, 151, 

 252. 



Bumblebee, 209. 



Burns, Robert, 159. 



Burroughs, John, early and later 

 associations, 244 ; begins to write, 

 245-247 ; fondness for essays, 245 ; 

 sees his first author, 245, 246; 

 comes under the influence of 

 Emerson's writings, 247, 248; 

 takes to writing outdoor sketches, 

 247, 248 ; conscious of persons, 248, 

 249 ; his debts to various authors, 

 249-252 ; his style, 252, 253 ; hia 

 deficiency in seU-assertion and its 

 compensating advantages, 255 ; 

 must write from sympathy and 

 love, or not at all, 256; act of 

 composition a kind of self-explorap 

 tion, 257, 258 ; his knowledge and 

 command of his lesourcea, 258. 

 259. 



Butler, Joseph, his Analogy be- 



