INDEX 



^schyluB, 4, 147 ; hia Agamemnon. 

 143. 



Akers, Elizabeth, quotations trom, 

 108, 109. 



April, in praise of, 93, 94 ; odors of, 

 94 ; its place in tlie calendar, 95 ; 

 spring runs in, 96 ; sounds of, 96, 

 97 ; morning in, 97, 98 ; birds of, 

 98-103 ; various phenomena of, 

 104 ; in farm and garden, 105 ; the 

 natal season, 105, 106 ; in poetry, 

 107, 108. 



Apuleius, 112. 



Art, essence and aims of, 157 ; vague- 

 ness and spirituality demanded 

 in, 158. 



Audubon, John James, a poet, 1. 



Bacon, Francis, Taine on, 167, 168. 



Beauty, power the essential basis 

 of, 149-153 ; and the old masters, 

 149 ; attitude of the ancients to- 

 wards, 149, 150 ; of nature, 150- 

 154. 



Benton, Myron, his JSummation 

 quoted, 117. 



Bible, the, quotation from, 110. 



Birds, as inspirers and teachers of the 

 poets, 1-3 ; poetry and music of 

 the songless, 3, 4, 24; the senti- 

 ment awakened by the aquatic, 

 33, 34 ; expressive language of, 

 37, 38 ; 40 ; the eyes of, 61 ; pleas- 

 ures of an acquaintance with, 71, 

 72 ; forever the same, 72, 73 ; sor- 

 rowful or joyful associations with, 

 73, 74 ; natural deaths among, 74, 

 75 ; their use of river valleys as 

 migration highways, 75 ; lack of 

 coquetry in female, 76 ; in winter, 

 80-84 ; the food question with, 

 80, 81 ; songless in winter in the 

 Northern States, 84; change of 

 habits caused by settlement and 

 cultivation of the country, 91 ; 

 in April, 98-103; flight of large, 

 185. 



Bittern, American {Botaurus lenii- 

 gMosus), notes of, 4. 



Bjornson, Bjornstjerne, 113. 



Blackbird, cow, or cowbird {Molo- 

 thrus ater)^ breeding habits of, 

 103 ; notes of, 103. 



Blackbird, European, in Tennyson 

 and Shakespeare, 27, 28. 



Bluebird {Siolia sialis)^ in poetry, 

 36, 75 ; wintering eighty miles 

 north of New York city, 81, 82 ; 

 notes of, 37, 82 ; nest of, 72. 



Bobolink {Dolichonyx oryzivorus), 

 appearance and habits of, 17-19 ; 

 song of, 17-19, 88-91 ; in litera- 

 ture, 17, 19-21 ; 75, 77 ; individu- 

 ality of, 89. 



Boy, the, a part of Nature, 64, 65 ; 

 the natural history of, G5~69. 



Bryant, William Cullen, his Jio1>ert 

 of lAncoln^ 19, 20 ; his To a Water- 

 fowl, 33. 



Buchanan, Robert, on Walt Whit- 

 man, 232. 



Bunting, snow, or snowflake (Plee- 

 iropkenax nivalis)j 84. 



Burke, Edmund, 23. 



Bums, Robert, 109, 162, 200 ; quo- 

 tation from, 4. 



Byron, Lord, 153, 161. 



Cardinal. See Grosbeak, cardinal. 



Carlyle, Thomas, and the larks, 71 ; 

 his strength of character, 143, 

 144 ; contrasted with Emerson, 

 161, 162; 177; compared with 

 Walt Whitman, 227. 



Cedar-bird or cedar waxwing (Ampe- 

 Hs cedrorwn), 72, 81, 82. 



Celtis, 81, 82. 



Chat, yellow-breasted (Tcteria vi- 

 rens), notes of, 37. 



Chaucer, 109. 



Chewink, or towhee {Pipilo ery- 

 throphihalmus), 98 ; appearance 

 and habits of, 99 ; Thomas SeSL&c- 



