INDEX 



265 



38 ; an azad or free man, 42 ; 150, 

 151, 220, 248; quotations from, 

 1, 4, 7-9, 12, 14-22, 24, 27-33, 35- 

 42. 



^Thrasher, brown {HarporhyTichus 

 rufus)^ 175. 



Times, The, 127. 



Toad, breeding of, 173, 174 ; young 

 of, 174. 



Tortoise, Gilbert White's, 172, 173. 



Towhee. See Chewink. 



Turg^nef, quotation from, 232. 



VirgU, 48. 



Wagtail, 171. 



War, the ethics of, 211-217. 



Warbler, Canada {Sylvania canor 

 densis), 175. 



Whipple, Edwin Percy, 246. 



Whip-poor-will {Antrostonms voci- 

 ferus), song of, 38. 



White, Gilbert, 33; source of his 

 charm, 163-168; as an observer, 

 168-173; some points of difference 

 between the natural history of 



New England and New York and 

 that of England, as exhibited in 

 White's Selbome, 173-176; hie 

 house and haunts, 176 ; his tomb, 

 177 ; bis place m literature, 177 ; 

 quotations from, 170-173, 176. 



White, Richard Grant, 163. 



Whitman, Walt, Thoreau on, 23 ; 72, 

 73, 142 ; an exception to the 

 American tendency to over-refine- 

 ment, 211 ; the author's debt to, 

 249, 250, 252. 



Whittier, John Greenleaf, 69, 252. 



Wilaon, Alexander, 55, 66. 



Women, as hermits, 221. 



Woodchuck {Arciomys monax), 14, 

 38. 



Wordsworth, William, his attitude 

 towards science, 69, 70 ; Matthew 

 Arnold on, 119, 134 ; 138 ; his di- 

 dactic bias, 151; 154 ; the poet of 

 solitude, 221-223 ; 250 ; quotations 

 from, 44, 222, 223. 



Yew, American, 177. 

 Yew, EngUsh, 177. 



