PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY, 345.
PATH, the long, 323.

PEARS, men are like, in coming to
maturity, 92.

PHOSPHORUS, its suggestions, 84.
PHOTOGRAPHS of the Past, 283.
PHRASES, complimentary, applied
to authors, what determines them,
131.

PIE, the young fellow treats disre-
spectfully, 88; the Author takes
too large a piece of, 90.
PIECRUST, poems, etc., written un-
der influence of, 90.
PILLAR, the Hangman's, 329.
PINKNEY, William, 7.

PIRATES, Danish, their skins on
church doors, 121.

PLAGIARISM, Author's virtuous dis-
gust for, 168.

POCKET-BOOK fever, 240.
POEM-with the slight alterations, 53.
POEMS, alterations of, 52; have a
body and a soul, 112; green state
of, 114; porous like meerschaums,
117; post-prandial, the Professor's
idea of, 259.

POET, my friend, the, 111, 146, 200,
206 et seq., 211, 258, 259, 261.
POETS love verses while warm from
their minds, 114; two kinds of,
212; apt to act mechanically on
their brains, 216.

POETS and artists, why like to be

prone to abuse of stimulants, 221.
POETASTER who has tasted type,

340.

POETICAL impulse external, 112.
POETRY uses white light for its
main object, 56.

PRINCIPLE, against obvious facts, 63.
PRIVATE Journal, extract from my,
287.

PRIVATE theatricals, 47.
PROBABILITIES provided with buf-
fers, 63.

PROFESSION, literary men should
have a, 207.

PROFESSOR, my friend the, 28, 80,
90, 101, 123, 130, 137, 170, 171 et
seq., 201, 206 et seq., 224, 226, 227,
262, 281 et seq., 294, 341 et seq.
PROLOGUE, 49.
PUBLIC Garden, 318.
PUGILISTS, when "stale," 180.
PUNNING, quotations respecting, 14.
PUNS, law respecting, 12; what they

consist in, 55; surreptitiously cir-
culated among the company, 293.
PUPIL of the eye, simile concerning,
the Author disgorges, 166.

Q.

Quantity, false, Sidney Smith's re-
mark on, 125.

R.

RACE of life, the, report of running
in, 108.

RACES, our sympathies go naturally
with higher, 74.
RACING, not republican, 38.
RAPHAEL and Michael Angelo, 237.
RASPAIL's proof-sheets, 28.
Rat des Salons à Lecture, 65.
READING for the sake of talking,
154; a man's and a woman's, 321.

RECOLLECTIONS, trivial, essential to
our identity, 243.

RELATIVES, opinions of as to a
man's powers, 60.
REPEATING one's self, 7.
REPUTATION, living on contingent,
68.

REPUTATIONS, conventional, 41.
"RETIRING" at night, etiquette of,

241.

RHODE-ISLAND, near what place,
272.

RHYMES, old, we get tired of, 20;
bad to chew upon, 338.
RIDICULOUS, love of, dangerous to
literary men, 102.
ROSES, damask, 264, 267.
ROWING, nearest approach to flying,
195; its excellencies, ib.; its joys,

196.

"ROYAL GEORGE," the, Cowper's
poem on, 329.

RUM, the term applied by low peo-
ple to noble fluids, 220.

S.

SAÄS-PLATES, 357.

SADDLE-LEATHER compared to sole-
leather, 192.

"SAHTISFAHCTION," a tepid ex-
pression, 120.

SAINT Genevieve, visit to church of,

327.

'SAINTS and their Bodies," an ad-
mirable Essay, 189.
SANTORINI'S laughing-muscle, 224.
SAVING one's thoughts, 29.
SCHOOLMISTRESS, the, 35, 47, 68, 85,

86, 97, 122, 133, 142, 143, 156, 211,
212, 234 et seq., 242, 244 et seq.,
264, 278, 286 et seq., 311, 358 et
seq. 364.
"SCIENCE," the Professor's inward
smile at her airs, 206.
SCIENTIFIC certainty has no spring
in it, 63.

SCIENTIFIC knowledge partakes of
insolence, 62.

SCRAPING the floor, effect of, 56.
SEA and Mountains, 308.
SEED capsule (of poems,) 232.
SELF-DETERMINING power, limita-
tion of, 100.

SELF-ESTEEM, with good ground, is
imposing, 11.

SELF-MADE men, 22.

SEVEN Wise Men of Boston, their
sayings, 142.
SHAKSPEARE, old copy, with flakes
of pie-crust between its leaves, 88.
SHAWL, the Indian blanket, 21.
SHORTENING Weapons and lengthen-
ing boundaries, 22.

SHIP, the, and martin-house, 240.
SHIPS, afraid of, 238.

SHOP-BLINDS, iron, produce a shiver,
312.

SIERRA LEONE, native of, enjoying
himself, 351.

SIGHT, pretended failure of, in old
persons, 199.

SIMILITUDE and analogies, ocean of,

94.

SIN, its tools and their handle, 142;
introduction to, 243.

SMELL, as connected with the mem-
ory, etc. 83.
SMILE, the terrible, 223.
SMITH, Sidney, abused by London
Quarterly Review, 103.
SNEAKING fellows to be regarded
tenderly, 255.

SOCIETIES of mutual admiration, 2.
SOUL, its concentric envelops, 281.
SOUNDS, Suggestive ones, 246, 247.
SPARRING, the Professor sees a little,
and describes it, 198.
SPOKEN language plastic, 30.
SPORTING men, virtues of, 41.
SPRING HAS COME, 228.
SQUIRMING When old falsehoods are
turned over, 129.
STAGE-RUFFIAN, the, 58.
"STARS, the, and the earth," a little
book, referred to, 310.
STATE HOUSE, Boston, the hub of
the solar system, 143.
"STATOO of deceased infant," 124.
STILLICIDIUM, sentimental, 89.
STONE, flat, turning over of, 127.
STRANGER, who came with young
fellow called John, 143, 356.
"STRAP!" my man John's story,

121.

STRASBURG Cathedral, rocking of its
spire, 331.

STRIKING in of thoughts and feel-
ings, 153.

STUART, his two portraits, 24.
SUMMER residence, choice of, 309.
SUN AND SHADOW, 45.
SUNDAY mornings, how the Author
shows his respect for, 201.
SWANS, taking his ducks for, 319.
SWIFT, property restored to, 168.
SWORDS, Roman and American, 21.
SYLVA NOVANGLICA, 275.
SYNTAX, Dr. 270.

T.

TALENT, a little makes people jeal-
ous, 2.

TALKERS, real, 164.

TALKING like playing at a mark
with an engine, 30; one of the
fine arts, 58.
TEAPOT, literary, 70.
THE LAST BLOSSOM, 186.
THE OLD MAN DREAMS, 76.
THE TWO ARMIES, 262.
THE VOICELESS, 355.
THEOLOGICAL students, we all are,

32.

THOUGHT revolves in cycles, 80; if

uttered, is a kind of excretion, 227.
THOUGHTS may be original, though
often before uttered, 8; saving,
29; shaped in conversation, 30;
tell worst to minister and best to
young people, 33; my best seem
always old, 34; real, knock out
somebody's wind, 129.
THOUGHT-SPRINKLERS, 30.
TIME and space, 310.

TOBACCO-STAIN may strike into
character, 116.

TOBACCO-STOPPER, lovely one, 116.
TOWNS, small, not more modest than
cities, 144.

Toy, author carves a wonderful at
Marseilles, 208.

Toys moved by sand, caution from
one, 90.

TRAVEL, maxims relating to, 325;
recollections of, 326.

TREE, growth of, as shown by rings
of wood, 331; slice of a hemlock,
331; its growth compared to hu-
man lives, 332.

TREES, great, 268; mother-idea in

each kind of, 270; afraid of meas-
uring-tape, 272; Mr. Emerson's
report on; 273; of America, our
friend's interesting work on, 276.

VIOLINS, Soaked in music, 117; take
a century to dry, 118.
VIRTUES, negative, 306.
VISITORS, getting rid of, when their
visit is over, 19.

VOICE, the Teutonic maiden's, 250;
the German woman's, 251; the
little child's in the hospital, 252.
VOICES, certain female, 248; fear-
fully sweet ones, 249; hard and
sharp, 251; people do not know
their own, 253; sweet must be-
long to good spirits, 253.

Voleur, brand of, on galley rogues,
120.

VOLUME, man of one, 165.

W.

WALKING arm against arm, 20; laws
of, 80; the Professor sanctions,
191; riding and rowing compared,
193, 194.

WASP, sloop of war, 239.

WATER, the white-pine pail of, 232.
WEDDING, the, 364.

WEDDING-PRESENTS, the, 361.
WELLINGTON, gentle in his old age,

92.

WHAT WE ALL THINK, 168.
WILL, compared to a drop of water
in a crystal, 96.
WILLOWS in Maine, 335.
WINE of ancients, 75.

WIT takes imperfect views of things,

55.

WOMAN, an excellent instrument for
a nerve-player, 148; to love a,
must see her through a pin-hole,
258; must be true as death, 315;
marks of low and bad blood in,
316; love-capacity in, ib.; pride
in, 316; why she should not say
too much, 317.

WOMEN, young, advice to, 54; first
to detect a poet, 211; inspire poets,
211; their praise the poet's re-
ward, 211; all, love all men, 257;
all men love all, 257; pictures of,
257; who have weighed all that
life can offer, 322.

WOODBRIDGE, Benjamin, his grave,
279, 280.

WORLD, old and new, comparison
of their types of organization,
276.
WRITING with feet in hot water, 7;
like shooting with a rifle, 30.

Y.

YES? in conversation, 20.
YOUNG FELLOW called John, 60, 72,
81, 88, 114, 128, 201, 216, 223, 224,
241, 254, 268, 293, 300, 306, 356,
362.

YOUNG LADY come to be finished
off, 10.
YOUTH, flakes off like button-wood
bark, 177; American, not perfect
type of physical humanity, 197;
and age, what Author means by,
231.

Z.

244.