Index to Subjects and to Names incidentally mentioned in the volume.....

773

ALDRICH, JAMES. ..........................

PAGE

516

CARY, ALICE.....

PAGE

730

733

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY............. 149 CHANDLER, ELIZABETH M........ 582

ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD ....

.....................

733 CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY.... 241

186 CHEEVER, GEORGE B.............. 569

BEECHER, HENRY WARD.......... 679
BEECHER, LYMAN..
BENJAMIN, PARK....

206
617

634

............... 621

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ALLSTON, WASHINGTON............................... 228 CHILD, LYDIA M.................... 478
AMES, FISHER.................
130 CLARK, WILLIS G...................
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES........... 254 CONRAD, ROBERT T.
BACON, LEONARD....................................................... 498 COOKE, PHILIP P.
693
BANCROFT, GEORGE................. 483 COOPER, JAMES F......................................... 315
BARLOW, JOEL....................... 117 COXE, A. CLEVELAND.............. 707
BARNES, ALBERT.
459 CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM........ 757
DANA, MARY S. B.................. 586
DANA, RICHARD H.........
304
DAVIDSON, LUCRETIA M........... 600
DAVIDSON, MARGARET M......... 742
DAWES, RUFUS.
510
DENNIE, Joseph..................... 157
DINNIES, ANNA P............................................ 632
DOANE, GEORGE W................. 471
DRAKE, JOSEPH R.................. 400
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY........................... 102
EDWARDS, JONATHAN.............. 25
EMBURY, EMMA C.......................................... 614
EMERSON, RALPH W............... 513
EVERETT, ALEXANDER H......... 344
519 EVERETT, EDWARD................. 394
365
FIELDS, JAMES T........................... 746

BETHUNE, GEORGE W............. 523
BOKER, GEORGE H................. 745
BRAINARD, JOHN G. C............. 455
BROOKS, JAMES G.

488
BROOKS, MARIA .............................................. 420
BROOKS, MARY E................ 490
BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN.... 172
BRYANT, WILLIAM C............... 377
BUCKINGHAM, JOSEPH T.......... 225
BUCKMINSTER, JOSEPH S......... 282
- BURLEIGH, WILLIAM H............ 660
BUSHNELL, HORACE........
CAREY, HENRY C.

22

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FLINT, TIMOTHY.................

PAGE

236 MADISON, JAMES....................

PAGE

98

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN ............. 33 MARSHALL, JOHN................... 120 FRENAU, PHILIP.................... 108 MASON, JOHN M........

287 MAY, EDITH......

...... 164

.................. 687 ....... 84 ..... 387

FRISBIE, LEVI...........................................
GALLAGHER, WILLIAM D.......... 592 | MCLELLAN, ISAAC.............................................. 552
GOODRICH, SAMUEL G................................... 369 | Mellen, Grenville................................... 473
GOULD, HANNAH F............................................... 603 MORRIS, GEORGE P................ 505
GREENE, ALBERT G................ 496 MOTLEY, JOHN L.
GRISWOLD, RUFUS W.............. 690 MURRAY, LINDLEY
HALE, SARAH J................. 427 NEAL, JOHN..................
HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE.......... 407 NORTON, ANDREWS................. 300
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER........... 123 OSGOOD, FRANCES S................ 657
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL......... 536 PAINE, ROBERT TREAT............ 202
HILDRETH, RICHARD.............. 577
HILLARD, GEORGE S............... 594
HILLHOUSE, JAMES A.............. 323
HOFFMAN, CHARLES F............. 543
HOLLAND, JOSIAH G............... 726
HOLMES, OLIVER W... 623
HOOPER, LUCY...................... 695
HOPKINS, MARK................... 491
HOPKINSON, FRANCIS..............
HOPKINSON, JOSEPH.........................................
.... 170
HOWELL, ELIZABETH............... 701
IRVING, WASHINGTON.... ......... 274
JAY, WILLIAM .........................
JEFFERSON, THOMAS .............. 72
KEY, FRANCIS S...................... 222
KIRKLAND, CAROLINE M.......... 532
LAWRENCE, JONATHAN............. 582
LEDYARD, JOHN.........
LIPPINCOTT, SARA JANE.......... 750
LONGFELLOW, HENRY W....... 561
LOWELL, JAMES R.................. 713
LOWELL, MARIA

638

PALFREY, JOHN G.................. 447
PAULDING, JAMES K............... 211
PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD............ 360
PEABODY, ANDREW P.............. 650
PEABODY, WILLIAM B. O.......... 476
PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES
......... 413
PETERS, PHILLIS WHEATLY...... 113
PIERPONT, JOHN
292
59 PIKE, ALBERT............................................. 631
PINKNey, Edward C.............. 502
POE, EDGAR A. ..........................
PRENTICE, GEORGE D.............. 508
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H........... 435
QUINCY, JOSIAH..........
RAMSEY, DAVID.........
READ, THOMAS B................... 738
REED, HENRY......................................... ...... 588
ROBINSON, Edward.................................. 390
RUSH, BENJAMIN................... 78
SANDS, ROBert C.................................. .............. 466
SAXE, JOHN G.. .................... 698
SEDGWICK, CATHARINE M........ 441

328

94

719

181 .... 87

MACKELLAR, THOMAS........ 672 SIGOURNEY, LYDIA H........... 336

TUCKERMAN, HENRY T............ 675 WOODWORTH, SAMUEL......

.... 299

COMPENDIUM

OF

AMERICAN LITERATURE.

JONATHAN EDWARDS, 1703-1758.

Ox no foundation more enduring could the structure of a work upon American Literature be reared, than on the illustrious name of Jonathan Edwards,-an ornament and glory not to his country only, but to his race. Of a piety as deep, as pure, as fervent, and as constant as it has ever been allowed to mortals to possess; of a singleness of purpose, which never forsook him, to make the very best of life that life is capable of; and of an intellect which, by the rare union of clearness, acuteness, and strength, has never been surpassed if ever equalled, the elder Edwards has attained a renown in both hemispheres which can never die.

He was born at East Windsor, Connecticut, on the 5th of October, 1703. His parents were the Rev. Timothy Edwards, for sixty-four years the pastor of the Congregational Church at East Windsor, and Esther Stoddard, daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, who was for more than half a century pastor of the church of Northampton, Massachusetts. He commenced the study of Latin under his father's instruction at six years of age, and entered Yale College a few days before he was thirteen. As a signal proof of his early strength of mind, it may be mentioned that in his sophomore year he read Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding with such interest and delight as to declare that in the perusal of it he enjoyed a far higher pleasure "than the most greedy miser finds when gathering up handfuls of silver and gold from some newly-discovered treasure." That such a youth should acquit himself most honorably in his college course was to be expected, not in his studies only, but in his whole deportment and bearing. During his last year in college, very deep religious impressions took possession of his whole being. His own account of the event is in the following language, expressive of

HIS RELIGIOUS FEELINGS.

Not long after I first began to experience new apprehensions and ideas of Christ, and the work of redemption, and the glorious way of salvation by him, I gave an account to my father of some things that had passed in my mind. I was pretty much affected by the discourse which we had together; and, when the discourse was ended, I walked abroad alone in a solitary place in my father's