IV. Representative Men. Seven Lectures. ... This was originally issued in 1850, and consists of a series of characters each of which is designed to represent a class. The Lectures are :— I. Uses of Great Men. II. Plato; or, the Philosopher. III. Swedenborg; or, the Mystic. V. Shakspeare; or, the Poet. VI. Napoleon; or, the Man of the World. VII. Goethe; or, the Writer. V. English Traits. .. This was published in 1856, several years after Emerson's second visit to England in 1847, and has been always regarded as one of the Author's most popular and attractive books, although, says one American critic, "many of the "remarks and statements contained in it require to be received with liberal "qualifications." VI. Conduct, The, of Life. Nine Lectures. . This was originally published in 1860. VII. Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters. VIII. Letters and Social Aims. ... This Volume was commenced by Mr. Emerson in 1871, after his health had broken. He was working" against the grain" and had made little or no progress, when his house was burned in July, 1872, and all possibility of work ceased for a while. In 1875 it was taken up again, but Mr. Cabot was intrusted with the business of preparation and selection for the press. The first four and the last three Essays of this Series had never been published before. Emerson's habit was to write his Essays in scraps, and then collecting such of his Notes as bore on a particular subject to dovetail the scraps together with connecting passages. In the Essay on Immortality there are portions "written fifty years apart, "but first published in 1883." IX. Poems. ... In the Appendix (pp. 253-315) are pieces "never before published," and many are unfinished. Some apparently had not been published by Emerson because of their personal and private nature: but Mr. Cabot concluded “the "world would like to possess them." X. Lectures and Biographical Sketches. .. Six of these," Aristocracy," " Education," "The Man of Letters," "The 66 Scholar," ," "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England," and "Mary Moody Emerson," are now published for the first time. XI. Miscellanies. (Twenty-three pieces.) ... Ten only had been previously published. Probably no more “self-reliant” remark was ever deliberately uttered than Emerson's sentence in a Sermon on the Lord's Supper, Sept. 9, 1832. "This mode of commemorating Christ is not "suitable to me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it. If I believed "it was enjoined by Jesus on His disciples and that He even contemplated "making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable to an "Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings I should "not adopt it. I should choose other ways, which, as more effectual upon me, "He would approve more" (p. 24). The titles or subjects of all his Essays, Addresses, and Lectures are given below in alphabetical order. The abbreviated words in parentheses are the brief titles of the volumes in which they are included in this Edition :— Brown, John: Remarks at a Meeting for the relief of his family (Miscell.) XI. 249 Demonology (Lecture) Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Concord, Address at (Miscell.) Domestic Life (Soc. and Sol.) Editor's Address, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (Miscell.) VII. 237 VI. 125 Vol. Page Experience (Essay) Greatness (Letters and Soc. Aims) Farming (Soc. and Sol.) Fate (Conduct of Life) Fortune of the Republic (Miscell.) Free Religious Association: Address at the Organization of (Miscell.) Harvard Commemoration Speech (Miscell.) Heroism (Essay) Historical Discourse at Concord (Miscell.) IV. 247 VIII. 283 XI. 317 II. 229 XI. 31 II. 7 History (Essay). Nature, Method of (Oration, 1841) New England, Historic Notes on Life and Letters in (Lectures, etc.) X. 229 XI. 305 I. 149 XI. 7 II. 159 III. 115 I. 215 IX. 143 IV. 141 IV. 211 I. 7 III. 161 Parker, Theodore: Address at Memorial Meeting, Boston (Miscell.) Persian Poetry (Letters and Soc. Aims) VIII. 223 IV. 78 IV. 39 X. 275 Emory, Major William H.-[Mexican Boundary.] REPORT on [573] the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Washington: Cornelius Wendell. 1857. 2 vols. 4to. Half russia. 156 Illust. a. c. See commencement of each Part." ... The Report is divided into four parts. Part I. comprises the Personal Narrative: general description of the Country: Journal of the Joint Commission: the astronomical work: barometrical levels: meteorological record: and magnetic observations. Part II. consists of Geological Researches, with annotations and a review of the whole by Professor James Hall. These form Vol. I. and are illustrated by one Map (four other Maps being referred to, but "not bound with the Report"), 95 Engravings on steel, 3 on copper, 13 on stone, and 45 woodcuts. The Illustrations are well executed and many of them are coloured. Vol. II. comprises Part III., on the botanical features of the Country, by Dr. John Torrey and others, and Part IV., on the natural history of the Country, by Spencer F. Baird. This Commission was organized originally just before the gold fever of 1849. Necessarily much delay occurred. It had to be organized and reorganized, but much useful work was accomplished and valuable information collected. Enfield, Viscountess.-HENRY GREVILLE'S DIARY. See Greville, Henry William. Engel, Carl.-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. See South Kensington Museum Hand-books. Englishman, An.-ESCAPE of the Young Chevalier. See Bibliotheca Curiosa (Vol. XI.).(c) English Men of Letters.-ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. By va[574] rious Authors: Edited by John Morley. London: Macmillan & Co. 1879, etc. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. [In course of publication.] ... There are at present (March, 1888) 38 volumes of this Series published. They are printed and bound in a uniform style. Their one lack is an Index to each Volume. They comprise:— |