In the Atlantic Monthly since his death, indicate the thoughtfulness with which he contemplated even the most familiar phenomena of life and nature, and the elaborate study whereby he prepared himself to interpret and illustrate them. The wayward yet studious career of Percival terminated in Illinois, soon after his geological survey of Wisconsin, May 2, 1856. Many of his poems have obtained a merited popularity; and the eccentricities growing out of his sensitive organization, independent spirit, and scientific zeal, are well set forth in the recently published Life and Letters of the gifted but perverse poet.*
Robert S. Lowell has published a local romance of freshness and picturesque attraction, and several expressive poems; Edward S. Rand, Jr., a pleasant and useful series of horticultural works; John Milton Mackie, two or three sprightly and graceful books of travel; and the lamented Dr. Kane, a most successful narrative of his arctic adventures. One of the most individual of the American authors who have become known to fame since the preceding record was written, is Henry D. Thoreau, intimately known and highly esteemed by a few near neighbors and friends during his life, including Emerson and Hawthorne. It is only since his death, which occurred May 7, 1862, that his peculiar traits have been generally recognized through his writings. He aspired to a life of frugal independence and moral isolation, and carried out the desire with singular heroism and patience. His experience as a hermit on the Concord River, his observant excursions to the woods of Maine, the
explored by such curious and loving eyes, have a remarkable freshness of tone and fulness of detail; while on themes of a social and political nature his comments are those of a bold and ardent reformer. Few books possess a more genuine American scope and flavor than Thoreau's.
Gail Hamilton has become a household word in New England as the nom de plume of a trenchant and graphic female essayist; and Trowbridge has gained popularity as an American story-teller. J. G. Holland has proved one of the most successful of American authors, if pecuniary results and popularity may be regarded as the test. Long engaged in the editorial charge of a New England daily newspaper, and brought into intimate contact with the people, their tastes and wants seem to have been remarkably appreciated by this prolific literary purveyor thereto. He has written novels, poems, lectures, and essays, founded on or directed to the wants and tendencies of life and nature in New England, and reflecting, with great authenticity, the local peculiarities, natural phases, and characteristic qualities of the region and the people.
To this list of the eminent departed must be added the names of many of our clergy who enjoyed and exerted a literary as well as religious influencesuch as Dr. Edward Hitchcock, Dr. Robinson, Franeis Wayland, George Bush, Clement C. Moore, Dr. Alexander, Pise, C. W. Upham, George W. Bethune, Dr. Baird, Starr King, John Pierpont, and others, as well as several useful and respected female authors:-among them, Mrs. Caroline Kirk-sands of Cape Cod, and other native scenes, rarely land, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Farnham, Hannah F. Gould, Alice B. Haven, Mrs. Emma C. Embury, Mrs. Farrar, Miss Leslie, and Miss Maria Cummins; with a number of miscellaneous writers, whose labors illustrated special subjects, as Schoolcraft, in aboriginal history and ethnology. Goodrich in popular education, and Walsh and Buckingham in editorial essays; Theodore Sedgwick, Horace Mann, Hildreth, Benjamin, Choate, Kettell, Dr. Francis, Josiah Quiney, and G. L. Duyckink. During the interval which has elapsed, and notwithstanding a civil conflict of four years, unparalleled in history for patriotic self-devotion and the lavish sacrifice of life and treasure to reassert and vindicate forever the integrity of the nation, several new and important additions have been made to our catalogue of able and honored authors and of standard works in native literature. John Lothrop Motley has gained a European reputation by his History of the Dutch Republic and of the Netherlands-works of elaborate research and artistic finish, written with an earnest sympathy in the struggles of those who laid the foundations of civil and religious freedom, and with a force and grace of style both appropriate and attractive. A valuable addition to this department also is the History of New England, by John Gorham Palfrey, wherein is evident much original research and a more comprehensive and vivid treatment than had before been given to the subject. In the sphere of philol-viously quite unappreciated. A vivid sketch which ogy and economical science, George P. Marsh has Theodore Winthrop wrote of the march of the Sevwritten with erudition and efficiency: his History enth Regiment from New York to Baltimore on the and Origin of the English Language, his Lec-outbreak of the rebellion, first awakened public tures on the English Language, and his treatise entitled Man and Nature have been recognized as singularly able and suggestive works on both sides of the ocean. In popular biography James Parton has won deserved distinction by the thoroughness of his investigation, and the dramatic form of his delineation; his lives of Burr, Jackson, and Franklin are read and relished by thousands. William R. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, is the most complete, curious, and interesting work of its kind which has appeared in our country.
*The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival, by Julius I. Hard. Boston. Ticknor & Fields, 1866.
Although the war for the Union elicited many memorable utterances in the form of logical discussion, eloquent appeal and invective, graphic narration, and lyric pathos or power, perhaps it revealed no more interesting literary phenomena than the advent of a young writer of romance pre
attention to his spirit and skill as a raconteur; and when, a few months later, he gallantly laid down his young life for his country, the writings which had vainly sought a publisher while he lived were hailed by a host of sympathetic readers as the literary legacy of a youthful martyr. This natural reaction from indifference to eulogy was not, however, a mere tribute to valor and fealty. The chivalrous nature and artistic sympathies of Major Winthrop, his love of adventure, his narrative skill, and a certain dramatic fire, are embodied and embalmed in these volumes of travel and romance in a manner full of high literary promise and genuine persons? interest
Adam, Davie, 53.
Addison, Joseph, 289-295.
Adrian, Abbot, 26.
Ailred of Rievaux, 30.
Akenside, Mark, 354.
Albert, Archbishop
York, 27.
Alcuin, 26, 27.
Aldhelm, 26.
Baillie, Joanna, 374.
Baldwyne, Richard, 84.
Bale, Bishop, 70, 112, 114.
Ballads, 67, 68, 375.
Banim, John, 450.
of Barbauld, Mrs., 373.
Barbour, 36, 55, 61.
Barclay, Robert, 185.
Barklay, Alexander, 66.
Barnfield, Richard, 86.
Barrow, Isaac, 254.
Barton, Bernard, 432.
Battle of Finnesburg, 26; of
Otterburne, 68.
Baxter, Richard, 184.
Bayly, Thomas Haynes,
432.
Alfred, king, 27; his trans-
lation of Bede, 27.
Alfred, or Alured of Bev-
erley, 30.
Alfric, 28; another, 28; an-
other, 28.
Amory, Thomas, 348.
Ancren Riwle, the, 33.
Ancrum, Earl of, 87.
Angles, 16.
Anglo-Norman literature,
28, 55.
Anglo-Saxon, date of its
change into English, 25;
language, 16, 23, 25; lit-
erature in Latin, 26; po-
etry, the vernacular, 26;
prose, the vernacular, 27.
Anglo-Saxons, 14; rise of
literature among, 15, 26.
Anselm, 28-30.
Austey, Christopher, 373.
Aquinas, Thomas, 31.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, 281.
Armstrong, John, 359.
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, 461.
Arthur, legends of king,
23, 31.
Ascham, Roger, 64.
Ashmole, Elias, 264.
Asser, Bishop, 27.
Atterbury, Bishop, 296.
Aubrey, John, 264.
Austen, Miss, 451.
Beattie, James, 350.
Beaumont, 157; Sir John,
86.
Bec, Abbey of, 28, 29.
Becket, Thomas, 30.
Beckford, William, 453.
Bede, 18, 26, 27.
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, 245.
Bell, Currer. See Brontë.
Bellenden, John, 70.
Bentham, Jeremy, 473.
Bentley, Richard, 302.
Beowulf, Lay of, 16.
Berengarius of Tours, 29.
Berkeley, Bishop, 299.
Bernard, St., 28, 31.
Berners, Lord, 62.
Bible, English translation
of, 57.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, 347.
Blacklock, Thomas, 373.
Blackmore, Sir Richard,
Blackstone, Sir William,
342.
Blackwood's Magazine, 469.
Blair, Robert, 350.
Bloomfield, Robert, 433.
Boleyn, George, 70.
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 298.
Boniface, 27.
Boston, Thomas, 264.
Boswell, James, 337.
Bowles, Rev. William Lisle,
Celtic dialect, 13; writers,
27.
Celts, 11, 13, 14.
Chalmers, Thomas, 465.
Chamberlayne, William, 176.
Chamier, Captain, 456.
Chapman, George, 85, 164.
Charleton, Dr. Walter, 231.
Chatterton, Thomas, 362.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 37-53.
Cheke, Sir John, 64.
Chesterfield, Earl of, 348.
Chettle, Henry, 166.
Chevy Chase, 68.
Chillingworth, Wm., 178.
Christianity, conversion of
Anglo-Saxons to, 15; its
influence on Anglo-Saxon
literature, 26.
Chronicle, the Saxon, 28.
Chronicles, Latin, 29; Met-
rical, 31.
Churchill, Charles, 372.
Churchyard, Thomas, 84, 85.
Clarendon, Earl of, 226.
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 346.
Cleveland, John, 176.
Cobbett, William, 474.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
425; Hartley, 433; Sara,
433.
Collins, William, 353.
Collier, Jeremy, 241.
Colman, George, the elder,
370; George, the younger,
Columbanus, St., 27.
Common Prayer, Book of,
Congreve, William, 238.
Constable, Henry, 85.
Cooke, George, 166.
Corbet, Richard, 86, 170.
Cotton, Charles, 176, 228;
Nathaniel, 372.
Coverdale, Miles, 62.
Cowley, Abraham, 174.
Cowper, William, 357.
Coxe, Rev. William, 475.
Crabbe, George, 361.
Crashaw, Richard, 168.
Croker, Crofton, 450; John
Wilson, 474.
Croly, Rev. George, 434.
Crowne, John, 244.
Davison, Francis, 85.
Day, John, 166.
Deductive Method, 98-100.
Defoe, Daniel, 306-308.
Dekker, Thomas, 164.
Denham, Sir John, 173.
De Lolme, John Louis, 347.
De Quincey, Thomas, 472.
Derham, William, 259.
Doddridge, Dr. Philip, 345.
Dodsley, Robert, 374.
Domesday Book, 19.
Donne, John, 82.
Dorset, Earl of, 247.
Douglas, Gawin or Gavin,
60, 69.
Drama, English, its origin,
Drayton, Michael, 80.
Drummond, William, 87,
170.
Dryden, John, 212-220.
Dugdale, Sir William, 264.
Dunbar, William, 60, 69.
Dunstan, 27.
D'Urfey, Tom, 302.
Dyer, John, 372.
Eadmer, 30.
Earle, John, 186.
Eanbald, 27.
Echard, Lawrence, 304.
Edgeworth, Maria, 448.
Edinburgh Review, 469.
Edwards, Richard, 85, 115.
Egbert, Archbishop, 27.
Elizabethan Age, 71, 88.
Elliott, Ebenezer, 434.
Ellwood, Thomas, 264.
Ely, Monk of, 32.
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 70.
English Literature, divis-
ions of, 25; origin of the
name, 16; history of lan-
guage, 23; Prose Litera-
ture, beginning of, 54.
Erigena. See Scotus.
Erskine, Ebenezer, 346;
Ralph, 346.
Ethelred, 28.
Etherege, Sir George, 233.
Evelyn, John, 228.
Fabliaux, 31, 33, 49, 51.
Fabyan, 63.
Fairfax, Edward, 84, 86.
Falconer, William, 359.
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 176,
Farmer. Dr. Richard, 349.
Farquhar, George, 237.
Feltham, Owen, 186.
Fenton, Elijah, 267.
Ferguson, Dr. Adam, 346.
Fergusson, Robert, 374.
Ferrers, George, 84.
Ferrier, Miss, 452.
Field, Nathaniel, 166.
Fielding, Henry, 312; Sa-
rah, 325.
Filmer, Sir Robert, 206.
Finnesburg, Battle of (Sax-
on poem), 26.
Fisher, Bishop, 70; Edward,
264.
Flamsteed, John, 259.
Flavel, John, 263.
Fletcher, Sir Andrew, 304;
John, 157; Giles, 83, 86;
Phineas, 83, 86.
Florence of Worcester, 30.
Foote, Samuel, 370.
Ford, John, 162.
Fortescue, Chief Justice, 60.
Foster, John, 464.
Fox, George, 184.
Foxe, John, 62.
Fraser, James Baillie, 458.
Frere, John, 433.
Fridegode, 27.
Froissart, Chronicle of, 32;
translated into English,
Gale, Theophilus, 263
Galt, John, 449.
Garrick, David, 370.
Garth, Sir Samuel, 285.
Gascoigne, George, 71.
Gauden, John, 186.
Gay, John, 283.
Geoffrey, 29; de Vinsauf,
31: Gaimar, 32; of Mon-
mouth, 30.
Gesta Romanorum, 49, 50.
Gibbon, Edward, 329.
Gifford, William, 468.
Gilbert, William, 259.
Gildas, Histories of, 27.
Gillies, Dr. John, 474.
Glapthorne, Henry, 166.
Glasscock, Captain, 456.
Gleig, George Robert, 457.
Glover, Richard, 374.
Godfrey, Prior, 29.
Godwin, William, 442.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 321.
Gower, 36, 50, 55-57.
Grafton, Richard, 107.
Grahame, James, 433.
Grainger, James, 359, 374.
Grammaticus. See Alfric
Granger, James, 348.
Habington, William, 171.
Hailes, Lord, 348.
Hakluyt, Richard, 90.
Hale, Sir Matthew, 264.
Hales, Alexander, 29; John,
177.
Halifax, Earl of, 231; Mar-
quess of, 228.
Hall, Edward, 63; Joseph,
83, 186: Robert, 464.
Hallam, Henry, 463.
Halley, Edmund, 259.
Halyburton, Thomas, 264.
Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth,
458; Sir William, 466.
Harding, John, 63, 69.
Harrington, James, 61, 206;
John (the father), 86
Sir John (the son), 86.
Hartley, David, 346.
Harvey, Gabriel, 73; Wil-
liam, 259.
Hathaway, Ann, wife of
Shakspeare, 130.
Hawes, Stephen, 66.
Hawkesworth, John, 336.
Hayley, William, 374.
Hayward, Sir John, 107.
Hazlitt, William, 474.
Heber, Dr. Reginald, 433.
Hemans, Mrs., 432.
Henry VIII., 61; Matthew,
263; of Huntingdon, 30,
31; Dr. Robert, 347.
Henryson, Robert, 61, 69.
Herbert, George, 168; Lord,
105; Rev. William, 432.
Hereford, translator of the
Old Testament, 58.
Herman, Bishop, 29.
Herrick, Robert, 169.
Hervey, James, 316; Lord,
347.
Heylin, Peter, 186.
Horne, Dr. George, 345.
Horne Tooke, John, 348.
Horner, Francis, 468.
Horsley, Dr. Samuel, 345.
Howard, Mr., 456.
Howe, John, 263.
Hrolf the Ganger, 19, 21.
Hugh of Lincoln, 50.
Hughes, John, 302.
Hume, Alexander, 87; Da-
vid, 326.
Hunnis, William, 85.
Hunt, James Henry Leigh,
James, G. P. R., 439.
James I., of Scotland, 60,
69; VI., of Scotland, 87.
Jean de Méun, 40.
Jeffrey, Francis, 468.
Jerrold, Douglas, 458.
Jocelin de Brakelond, 30.
John Barbour, 36, 55, 61;
de Hauteville, 31; de Tre-
visa, 30, 55; of Fordun,
55; of Salisbury, 29, 31.
Johnson, Samuel, 333.
Johnston, Dr. Arthur, 87.
Johnstone, Charles, 325.
Jones, Sir William, 348.
Jonson, Ben, 152.
Jortin, Dr. John, 345.
Julius Cæsar, 12.
Junius, Letters of, 341.
Heywood, John, 112; Tho- Kames, Lord, 346.
Hilarius, 31.
Hoadley, Benjamin, 345.
Hobbes, Thomas, 105.
Hogg, James, 434.
Holcroft, Thomas, 458.
Holinshed, Raphaci, 89.
Home, Henry. See Kames.
John, 374.
Hood, Thomas, 434.
Hook, Theodore, 152.
Hooke, Nathaniel, 347.
Hooker, Richard, 91.
Keats, John, 415.
Kennett, Basil, 347.
King, Dr. Henry, 176.
Knolles, Richard, 107.
Knowles, James Sheridan,
434.
Kyd, Thomas, 125.
Langhorne, Dr. John. 349.
Langlande, Robert, 54.
Langton, Stephen, 30.
Langue-d'Oc, the, 21.
Langue-d'Oil, the, 21.
Lansdowne, Lord, 288.
Lardner, Dr. Nathaniel, 345.
Latimer, 62.
Latin element in English
language, 13, 18.
Law, William, 345.
Lawrence of Durham, 31.
Laws, the Anglo-Saxon, 28.
Layamon, 32.
Lee, Harriet, 458; Nathan-
iel, 243; Sophia, 458.
Leighton, Robert, 263.
Leland, John, 70.
Lennox,Charlotte, 349; Dr.,
Leslie, Charles, 345.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 231.
Lever, 457.
Lewis, Matthew Gregory,
439; Sir George Corne-
wall, 461.
Leyden, John, 433.
Lillo, George, 246.
Lingard, Dr. John, 475.
Lister, T. H., 451.
Literature, Anglo-Norman
28-32; Anglo-Normar
and Anglo-Saxon, in Lat-
in, 29; earliest Anglo-
Saxon, 26; Anglo-Saxon,
in Latin, 26; influence of
foreign scholars on, 28;
Old English, 33, 34; Semi-
Saxon, 32, 33.
Lithgow, William, 107.
Locke, John, 249-254.
Lockhart, John Gibson, 458,
469.
Lodge, Thomas, 86, 126.
Logan, John, 373.
Lollius, 45.
Lombard, Peter, 28.
Lovelace, Sir Richard, 169.
Lover, 457.
Lowth, Dr. Robert, 345; Dr.
William, 264.
aces de Gast, 32.
Lydgate, John, 69.
Lyly, John, 107, 124.
Lyndsay, Sir David, 69.
Lyttelton, Lord, 347.
Landor, Walter Savage, 418. | Malory, Sir Thomas, 32, 70,
Mandeville, Bernard, 299; | Orm or Ormin, 33.
Sir John de, 54.
Manley, Mrs., 304.
Mannyng, Robert, 33.
Mapes or Map, Walter, 31,
Marlowe, Christopher, 126.
Marston, John, 83, 164.
Marryat, Captain, 456.
Marvell, Andrew, 205.
Mason, William, 374.
Massinger, Philip, 161.
Matthew Paris, 30.
Maturin, Charles Robert,
439.
Michael of Kildare, 34;
Scot, 55.
Mickle, William Julius, 372.
Middleton, Dr. Conyers,
347: Thomas, 164.
Mill, James, 473, 474.
Miller, Hugh, 467.
Milton, John, 187-205.
Minot, Laurence, 36, 54.
Miracle Plays, 108.
Mitford, Miss, 453; Wil-
liam, 475.
Monboddo, Lord, 346.
Montagu, Charles.
Halifax, Earl of. Lady
Mary, 300.
Montgomery,
Alexander,
87; James, 432; Robert,
434.
Moore, Dr. John, 458; Ed-
ward, 336; Thomas, 404,
Ormulum, the, 33.
Ossian, 361.
Otway, Thomas, 242.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 186.
Owen, John, 263.
Owl and Nightingale, the,
31.
Oxford, Earl of, Edward
Vere, 85.
Paley, William, 343.
Park, Mungo, 349.
Parnell, Thomas, 285.
Pearson, John, 256.
Pecock, Bishop, 70.
Peele, George, 124.
Penn, William, 185.
Pepys, Samuel, 229.
Percy, Bishop, 68, 350, 375.
Peter of Blois, 29, 30.
Philippa de Roet, wife of
Chaucer, 37.
Philips, Ambrose,
John, 247; Mrs. Kathe-
rine, 176.
Philosophy, Scholastic, 28.
Picts, 13.
Pindar, Peter, 370.
Pinkerton, John, 348.
Piozzi, Mrs., 373.
Plegmund, 28.
Poetry, Macaronic, 31.
Pollok, Robert, 433.
Pomfret, John, 248.
Pope, Alexander, 265–272.
Porsón, Richard, 347.
Porter, Anna Maria, 458;
Jane, 458.
Potter, Dr., 347.
Praed, Winthrop
worth, 433.
Price, Dr. Richard, 346.
Prideaux, Humphrey, 345.
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, 346.
Printing, its importation
into England, 59.
Prior, Matthew, 282.
Psalter, the Surtees, 33.
Purchas, Samuel, 90.
Purvey, 58.
Reid, Dr. Thomas, 346.
Renaissance literature, its
influence on Chaucer's
writings, 39; its influence
in England, 53.
Reviews, Edinburgh and
Quarterly, 468, 469.
Ricardo, David, 473.
Richard Coeur-de-Lion, 31.
Richard of Hampole. See
Rolle, Richard.
Richardson, Samuel, 309.
Robert de Barron, 32; of
Brunne. See Mannyng.
Of Gloucester, 33.
Robertson, William, 328.
Robin Hood ballads, 69.
Rochester, Earl of, 247.
Roger de Hoveden, 30; de
Wendover, 30.
Rogers, Samuel, 432.
Rolle, Richard, 36, 53.
Romance languages, 21 po-
ets, 23.
Romances, 32, 33; their in-
troduction into England
from France, 22; metri-
cal, 33.
Roman invasion, 12; wall,
12.
Roscoe, William, 347.
Roscommon, Earl of, 247.
Rose, William Stewart, 133,
Rowe, Nicholas, 244.
Rowland, Samuel, 86.
Rowley, William, 164.
Russell, Lady Rachel, 206;
Dr. William, 348.
Rutherford, Samuel, 264.
Sackville, Thomas, 72, 84,
114.
Sanderson, Robert, 186.
Sandys, George, 107.
Satires, 31, 33.
Savage, Richard, 288.
Savile, Geo. See Halifax.
Saxon element in language,
17, 18; family names, 20;
invasion, 13-15.
Saxons, their condition un-
der Norman rule, 19.
Schoolmen, the English, 29.
Scots, 13.
Scott, Michael, 457; Sir
Alexander, 87; Sir Wal-
ter, 375-395.
Scottish poetry in fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries,
60, 61, 69, 87.
Scotus, Johannes Duns, 27,
29.
Sedley, Sir Charles, 247.
Selden, John, 80, 186.
Semi-Saxon, duration of, 25.
Senior, N. W., 473.
Seward, Anna, 373.
Shadwell, Thomas, 246.
Shaftesbury, Lord, 297.
Shakspeare, Win., 128-151.
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