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INDEX 



Swallows, supposed hiberna- 

 tion of, 171-173; feeding 

 young on the wing, 176. 



Swift, chimney (Chcetura pela- 

 gica),ni. 



Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 

 19; his style, 66, 70, 71. 



Tacitus, his eloquence, 165. 



Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 104, 

 105, 119; a stimulating but 

 not disinterested critic, 121, 

 122; 142, 143. 



Taste, lapses of, 25, 26; good 

 and bad, 116-118. 



Taylor, Edward Thompson 

 r Father "), 163. 



Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 19, 

 114, 121 ; universality of his 

 art, 138, 139 ; begotten of the 

 feudal spirit, 164 ; his Maud, 

 161; an example of bis elo- 

 quence, 166; 181, 184; his 

 Crossitig the Bar, 227 ; quo- 

 tation from, 166. 



Thackeray, William Make- 

 peace, the title of his Vanity 

 Fair, 10, 11 ; 103. 



Thiers, Louis Adolphe, 119. 



Thoreau, Henry David, 30, 66, 

 119; his wildness, 197-202; 

 his enthusiasm for the In- 

 dian, 198, 199 ; the Indian in, 

 199, 200 ; his search for the 

 transcendental in nature, 

 201, 202; quotations from, 

 197-202. 



Titlark, 176. 



To the Bainbow, 166. 



Tolstoi, Leo, 39, 90, 119, 121,134, 

 149, 155. 



Triggs, Oscar Lovell, 110. 



Universe, the, 35-38. 



Villemain, Abel Francois, 104. 



Vineyard, preparing a new, 

 254-256. 



Voltaire, Fran9oi3 Marie 

 Arouet, his style, 69; his 

 verdict upon Shakespeare, 

 103, 111 ; 144 ; quotation from, 

 69. 



Waldsteln, Dr. Louis, his The 

 Subconscious Self, 130, 141; 

 quotations from, 141. 



Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 119, 

 121. 



Water-rat, 177. 



Weather, Gilbert White's ob- 

 servations on the, 177, 178. 



White, Gilbert, the longevity 

 of his book, 168 ; homeliness 

 of his book, 169; its human 

 interest, 169, I70j his genu- 

 ineness, 170, 171 ; his person- 

 ality, 171 ; a type of the true 

 observer, 171 ; his observa- 

 tions as to the supposed 

 hibernation of swallows, 

 171-173 ; examples of his truly 

 scientific observations, 174- 

 178 ; his alertness and enthu- 

 siasm, 175-177 ; a magnet for 

 the natural lore of his neigh- 

 borhood, 176; his observa- 

 tions on the weather, 178 ; his 

 imitators, 179 ; 218 ; quotations 

 from, 170, 173-178. 



Whitman, Walt, his published 

 letters, 4; 24, 27 ; on style, 66 ; 

 67, 75, 78, 99, 110 ; his respon- 

 sibility to aesthetic princi- 

 ples, 117, 118, 119 ; his Leaves 

 of Grass, 129, 214; 155, 181, 

 183, 184; his faith and opti- 

 mism, 185; his view of Na- 

 ture, 204; his Two Sivulets, 

 204 ; on the elusive in poetry, 

 204; his suggestiveness, 206, 

 206, 214 ; 223, 227 ; quotations 

 from, 24, 27, 66, 75, 99, 204; 214. 



Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1; 

 his poetry, 18, 19 ; 137. 



Wilson, Woodrow, 186. 



Woodpecker, 174. 



Wordsfold, William B., his 

 Principles of Criticism, 109. 



Wordsworth, William, 19, 23, 

 74, 116, 119, 124; his poetry 

 more personal and less uni- 

 versal than Tennyson's, 138, 

 139 ; never eloquent, 165 ; 181 ; 

 his attitude toward nature 

 compared with Scott's, 182, 

 183 ; 184, 204, 223, 228 ; quota- 

 tions from, 24, 141. 



Work, essential to happiness, 

 249-256. 



Zola, Emile, 112 ; his exaggera- 

 tion of certain things, 149, 

 160. 



