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INDEX 



Furitanism, Matthew Arnold on, 

 97, 100, 118. 



Bain-water, the ancient idea of, 



49. 

 Realism, the true, 234^-239. 

 Becluse in Mexico, a, 219, 220, 

 Redstart, European, 170. 

 Religious belief, effect of science on, 



225-234. 

 Romans, in the presence of nature, 



179. 

 Bosaetti, Dante Gabriel, 69. 

 Ruskin, John, 147, 150, 151. 



Sadi of Shiraz, the Gulistan or 

 Rose Garden of, 41, 42. 



Sainte-Beuve, Charles Aug:u8tin,120, 

 121, 134, 136 ; quotations from, 

 137, 138, 156. 



Sala, George Augustus, 126, 127. 



Science, lifeless character of its 

 view of nature, 43, 44 ; contrasted 

 with literature, 44, 45, 51-53 ; 

 cannot take the place of litera- 

 ture, 45, 47, 53-55 ; artificial 

 knowledge, 47, 48 ; of the an- 

 cients, 48-51 ; poetic spirit in, 55- 

 60 ; certain branches of interest 

 to literature, 62 ; future effect on 

 literature, 65, 66 ; not incompat- 

 ible with literature, 66, 67 ; many 

 poets not influenced by, 69 ; 

 Wordsworth on, 69, 70 ; its influ- 

 ence on certain poets, 71-77 ; Car- 

 lyle's debtto, 78, 79 ; poetic truths 

 in, 79, 80 ; its effect on religious 

 beUefs, 225-234. 



Selbome, 176, 177. 



Shakespeare, 46, 138, 154, 155, 184, 

 238 ; quotations from, 25, 141. 



Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 69. 



Shrike {Lanius sp.), notes of, 38. 



Skunk {Mephitis mepAiWca), inter- 

 viewed by Thoreau, 40. 



Snow, the spirit of, 48, 49. 



Snowbird, or slate -colored junco 

 {Junco hyemalis), nest of, 176. 



Solitude, pleasant and profltable to 

 certain natures, 217-221 ; the liter- 

 ature of, 221-225 ; a friend in, 224, 

 225. 



Sow, an aged, 171. 



Sparrow, fox {Passerella iliaea), 

 35. 



Sparrow, song {Melospiza fasci- 

 ata), 35, 175 ; neat of, 176. 



Sparrow, tree, or Canada {Spizella 

 moniicola), 35. 



Spencer, Herbert, 79. 



Starling, red-shouldered, or red- 

 winged blackbird {Agelaius 

 phosniceus), notes of, 38. 



Stedman, Edmimd Clarence, 210. 



Sun, the, not the special appurte- 

 nance of the earth, 226-228. 



Swallow, bam {Cnelidon erythrO' 

 gasier)^ notes of, 174 ; nest of, 

 175. 



Swallow, chimney, or chimney swift 

 {GTicetura pelagica), notes of, 175 ; 

 nest of, 175. 



Swallow, cliff {Petrochelidon l-uni' 

 frons), notes of, 174. 



Swallow, European house or chim- 

 ney, notes of, 174, 175 : nest of, 

 175. 



Swallows, 170. 



Swift, chimney. See Swallow, chim- 

 ney. 



Swift, European, 1^ notes of, 175; 

 nest of, 175. 



Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 69, 

 185'; his poetry, 251,252; quotar 

 tion from, 251. 



Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 140. 



Tennyson, Alfred, his debtto physi- 

 cal science, 72 ; quotation from, 

 72. 



Thoreau, Henry David, his jouxnal, 

 1-3, 38 ; his A Week on the Concord 

 and Merrimac JRivers, 2; his 

 Walden, 2, 29-32 ; his private 

 letters, 3 ; his fame steadily in- 

 creasing, 3,4; his individuality, 

 4, 6 ; not a skulker, 5-8 ; his plea 

 for John Brown, 6, 7 ; Brown's 

 spiritual brother, 8 ; not a leader 

 of men, 8, 9 ; his gift to the world, 

 9, 10 ; his strength of character 

 and devotion to principle, 10, 11 ; 

 a wild man and a lover of the 

 wild, 11-16 ; his heritage, 12 ; his 

 feeling for the Indian, 15, 16 ; his 

 reflnement and sensitiveness, 16, 

 17 ; his stubbornness and spirit 

 of antagonism, 17, 18 ; his griefs, 

 18, 19 ; love and hatred seemingly 

 inseparable in his mind, 19, 20 ; 

 his passion for storms, 21, 22 ; bis 

 playful perversity, 22; his atti- 

 tude towards men, 22, 23, 40, 248, 

 249 ; on Walt Whitman, 23 ; his 

 exaggeration of statement, 23-28 ; 

 his bragging, 28-30; his humor, 

 31, 32; his attitude towards na- 

 ture, 33-37 ; as an observer, 34- 

 41 ; his eye for arrow-heads, 36 ; 

 his rare descriptive powers, 37, 



