Literary Shrines, The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors, Fifth Edition [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Index

CONTENTS
THE CONCORD PILGRIMAGE
I. A Village of Literary Shrines.
Abodes of Thoreau—The Alcotts—Channing—Sanborn—Hudson—Hoar—Wheildon—Bartlett—The Historic Common—Cemetery—Church
II. The Old Manse.
Abode of Dr. Ripley—The Emersons—Hawthorne—Learned Mrs. Ripley—Its Famed Study and Apartments—Grounds—Guests—Ghosts—A Transcendental Social Court
III. A Storied River and Battle-field.
Where Zenobia Drowned—Where Embattled Farmers Fought—Thoreau's Hemlocks—Haunts of Hawthorne—Channing—Thoreau—Emerson, etc.
IV. The Home of Emerson.
An Intellectual Capitol and Pharos—Its Grounds, Library, and Literary Workshop—Famous Rooms and Visitants—Relics and Reminiscences of the Concord Sage
V. The Orchard House and its Neighbors.
Ellery Channing—Margaret Fuller—The Alcotts—Professor Harris—Summer School of Philosophy—Where[10] Little Women was written and Robert Hagburn lived—Where Cyril Norton was slain
VI. Hawthorne's Wayside Home.
Sometime Abode of Alcott—Hawthorne—Lathrop—Margaret Sidney—Storied Apartments—Hawthorne's Study—His Mount of Vision—Where Septimius Felton and Rose Garfield dwelt
VII. The Walden of Thoreau.
A Transcendental Font—Emerson's Garden—Thoreau's Cove—Cairn—Beanfield—Resort of Emerson—Hawthorne—Channing—Hosmer—Alcott, etc.
VIII. The Hill-top Hearsed with Pines.
Last Resting-Place of the Illustrious Concord Company—Their Graves beneath the Piny Boughs
IN AND OUT OF LITERARY BOSTON
IN BOSTON
A Golden Age of Letters—Literary Associations—Isms—Clubs—Where Hester Prynne and Silas Lapham lived—The Corner Book-store—Home of Fields—Sargent—Hilliard—Aldrich—Deland—Parkman—Holmes—Howells—Moulton—Hale—Howe—Jane Austin, etc.
OUT OF BOSTON
I. Cambridge: Elmwood: Mount Auburn.
Holmes's Church-yard—Bridge—Smithy, Chapel, and River of Longfellow's Verse—Abodes of Lettered[11] Culture—Holmes—Higginson—Agassiz—Norton—Clough—Howells—Fuller—Longfellow—Lowell—Longfellow's City of the Dead and its Precious Graves
II. Belmont: The Wayside Inn: Home of Whittier.
Lowell's Beaver Brook—Abode of Trowbridge—Red Horse Tavern—Parsons and the Company of Longfellow's Friends—Birthplace of Whittier—Scenes of his Poems—Dwelling and Grave of the Countess—Powow Hill—Whittier's Amesbury Home—His Church and Tomb
III. Salem: Whittier's Oak-Knoll and Beyond.
Cemetery of Hawthorne's Ancestors—Birthplace of Hawthorne and his Wife—Where Fame was won—House of the Seven Gables—Custom-House—Where Scarlet Letter was written—Main Street and Witch Hill—Sights from a Steeple—Later Home of Whittier—Norman's Woe—Lucy Larcom—Parton, etc.—Rivermouth—Thaxter
IV. Webster's Marshfield: Brook Farm, etc.
Scenes of the Old Oaken Bucket—Webster's Home and Grave—Where Emerson won his Wife—Home of Miss Peabody—Parkman—Miss Guiney—Aldrich's Ponkapog—Farm of Ripley's Community—Relics and Reminiscences
IN BERKSHIRE WITH HAWTHORNE
I. The Graylock and Hoosac Region.
North Adams and about—Hawthorne's Acquaintances and Excursions—Actors and Incidents of Ethan Brand—Kiln of Bertram the Lime-Burner—Natural Bridge—Graylock—Thoreau—Hoosac Mountain—Deerfield Arch—Williamstown—Bryant
II. Lenox and Middle Berkshire.
Beloved of the Littérateurs—La Maison Rouge—Where The House of the Seven Gables was written—Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Scenes—The Bowl—Beecher's Laurel Lake—Kemble—Bryant's Monument Mountain—Stockbridge—Catherine Sedgwick—Melville's Piazza and Chimney—Holmes—Longfellow—Pittsfield
A DAY WITH THE GOOD GRAY POET
Walk and Talk with Socrates in Camden—The Bard's Appearance and Surroundings—Recollections of his Life and Work—Hospital Service—Praise for his Critics—His Literary Habit, Purpose, Equipment, and Style—His Religious Bent—Readings