INDEX 



263 



HeUenism, 83, 86, 87, 93-101, 106- 

 108, 116-119. 



Herodotus, hia view of the sun, 227. 



Higginaon, Thomas Wentworth, his 

 essays, 246. 



High-hole, or flicker {Colaptes au- 

 ratus), notes of, 37. 



History, 139, 140. 



Hog, 171. 



Hoopoe, 169, 170. 



Hugo, Yictor, his treatment of na- 

 ture, 180, 190, 191 ; a great man, 

 180 ; his riotous sensationalism, 

 181-190; his The Man who 

 , Laughs, 181, 183 ; his The Toilers 

 of the Sea, 181-183 ; hia Les Mis- 

 irahles, 182, 190, 191 ; his Napo- 

 leon the Little, 183 ; his Bug Jar- 

 gal, 185 ; his Notre Dame, 185- 

 189 ; quotations from, 190, 191. 



Humboldt, Baron yon, his human- 

 ism, 57-59. 



Idiot boy, an, 173, 



Indian and his daughter, an old, 

 59. 



ludiTidualism, Matthew Arnold op- 

 posed to the spirit of, 106-112. 



Institutionalism, 105-116. 



Irving, Washington, 69, 151. 



Johnson, Dr. Samuel, compared and 

 contrasted with Carlyle, 198-206 ; 

 an "old struggler," 199, 200 ; hia 

 sluggishness, 200-202; his sense 

 of duty, 202 ; his human frailties, 

 202 ; his religion and pohtics, 203 ; 

 a greater and more picturesque 

 force personally than intellectu- 

 ally, 203, 204 ; lives through Bos- 

 well, 204, 206; 239; quotations 

 from, 115, 201-204, 206. 



Junco, slate-colored. See Snow- 

 bird. 



Keats, John, 69, 72, 73, 88 ; quotar 

 tions from, 72, 73. 



Landor, Walter Savage, 69, 123, 124 ; 

 quotation from, 154. 



Lark, grasshopper, 170 ; notes of, 

 170. 



Linnseus, 73. 



Literature, contrasted with science, 

 44, 45, 51-53; not to be sup- 

 planted by acience, 45-47, 53-55 ; 

 in the works of scientists, 55-59 ; 

 does not keep pace with civiliza- 

 tion, 60-62 ; man alone of per- 

 emu^ interest in, 62 ; things di- 



rectly related to our natural lives 

 most interesting to, 63-65 ; future 

 effect of science on, 65, 66 ; not 

 incompatible with acience, 66, 67 ; 

 use of science in, 69-80 ; American 

 possessed of more grace and re- 

 finement and less bulk than the 

 English or German, 209-211 ; ne- 

 cessity of sincerity in, 253, 254. 



Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 69, 

 151, 252. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, 66. 



Man, evolution of, 197, 198. 

 Martin, English house, or martlet, 



notes of, 174. 

 Marvell, Andrew, quotation from, 



225. 

 Mestizo Indian and his daughter, an 



old, 59. 

 Milton, John, 96, 134, 138 ; his bias 



of Puritanism, 151, 154. 

 Morley, John, 121, 122, 131. 

 Muskrat {Fiber zibethiats), 38. 



Nations, selfishness and dishonesty 

 of, 212, 213. 



Nature, man's dependence on, 64 ; 

 Victor Hugo's treatment of, 180, 

 190, 191 ; the great poet'a uae of, 

 191 ; communion v?ith, 222. 



Newman, Cardinal, 113 ; his style, 

 121, 122 ; Matthew Arnold on, 132, 



Nichols, Starr H., his Monte Bosa : 

 the Epic of an Alp, 71, 72. 



Ornithologists, 55. 



Oven-bird {Seiurus aurocapillus\ 



175. 

 Owl, the, of Keats, 73. 

 Owl, fern, 170. 

 Owl, white, feeding its young, 170 ; 



nest of, 170. 



Pigeons, their manner of drinking, 

 171. 



Plover, stilt, 171. 



Plutarch, 48 ; quotations from, 48- 

 50. 



Poet, the, and the scientist, 66, 67 ; 

 his use of the discoveries of sci- 

 ence, 70 ; his use of material, 77 ; 

 his use of nature, 191. 



Poetry, the Greek theory of, 97-99 ; 

 Carlyle'a definition of, 156. 



Pope, Alexander, 239, 242. 



Prayer, 232-234. 



Protestantism, Matthew Arnold on, 

 100, 101, 114, 116. 



Providences, special^ 228-232, 



