a geological survey of some of the northern counties of Indiana." Mr. Thompson is a Southerner, and fought throughout the Civil War on the Confederate side; since 1868 he has lived in the North. (515) 18. Kamsin wind: a hot southeast wind that blows in Egypt for fifty days every year, beginning in March. EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (516) How OLD BROWN TOOK HARPER'S FERRY. The text is from the 1860 edition. First published in The New York Tribune, November 12, 1859. John Brown, born in Connecticut in 1800, settled in Kansas in 1855 and became prominent in the fight to keep slavery out of that territory; he got his surname of "Osawatomie" by defeating a party of slaveholders at Osawatomie in 1856; he removed to Virginia, and, in pursuit of a purpose to liberate the slaves by arming them and rousing them to revolt, he and a few companions seized the arsenal at Harper's Ferry on October 16, 1859, and took captive some of the chief citizens; but the slaves did not rise, and Brown was captured on October 18, severely wounded; on October 27 he was tried and found guilty of treason and murder, and was hanged on December 2. (518) 46. turned parson: Brown had studied for the ministry in his youth. (519) 79. the Emperor's coup d'état: in 1851 Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, overthrew the French Republic, of which he was president, and became emperor of France. (520) PAN IN WALL STREET. First published in The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1867, from which the text is taken. (522) 45. Trinacrian=Sicilian; "Trinacria" was an old name for Sicily, from its "three promontories." ¶ 54. Egon: a neatherd boxer, mentioned in the fourth idyl of Theocritus. 76. Arethusan: Arethusa was a famous spring in Sicily. (523) 86. "Great Pan is dead": there was an old tradition that, at about the time of the Crucifixion, certain voyagers from Italy to Cyprus heard a voice at sea crying that the great god Pan was dead. ALICE CARY (523) SOMETIMES. The text is from the 1866 edition. JOAQUIN MILLER The text is from the 1882 edition. (525) THE SHIP IN THE DESERT. Section 13, ll. 121-39. SIDNEY LANIER The text is from the 1884 edition. (525) NIGHT AND DAY. First published in The Independent, July, 1884. Cf Othello, V. ii. (526) SONG FOR "THE JACQUERIE." "The Jacquerie" is an uncompleted poem on the bloody revolt of the French peasants (called "Jacquerie," from "Jacques," the common name for a peasant) against the nobles, in 1358. (527) THE MARSHES OF GLYNN. First published in The Masque of Poets. Glynn is a county on the coast of Georgia, the poet's native state. (530) How Love Looked for HELL. First published in The Century Magazine, March, 1884. (532) 85. Read interpret. EMILY DICKINSON The text is from the 1891 and 1892 editions. BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERAL WORKS HISTORY General.-A History of the American People (from the beginning to 1900) by Woodrow Wilson, 5 vols. (Harper, 1902). History of the United States of America (1783-1865), by James Schouler, 6 vols. (Dodd, 1880-99). A History of the People of the United States (1783-1861), by J. B. McMaster, 8 vols. (Appleton 1883-1910; 7 vols. out). History of the United States (986-1905), by T. W Higginson and William MacDonald (Harper, 1905). 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