JAMES T. FIELDS: PAGI ......... 758 *** ....... 754 GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS: Biographical Sketch................. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS. PAGE PAGE 478 634 315 ABBOTT, JACOB....................... 516 CARY, ALICE..... 730 ADAMS, John...................... 55 CARY, PHEBE........................ 733 Adams, John QUINCY............. 149 CHANDLER, ELIZABETH M........ 582 ALDRICH, JAMES. 733 CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY.... 241 ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD .......... 186 CHEEVER, GEORGE B.............. 569 ALLSTON, WASHINGTON............ 228 CHILD, LYDIA M.................... 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................. BARLOW, JOEL....................... Coxe, A. CLEVELAND............. 707 BARNES, ALBERT.................... 459 Curtis, George WILLIAM........ BEECHER, HENRY WARD.......... 679 Dana, MARY S. B.................. 586 BEECHER, LYMAN................... 206 DANA, RICHARD H.................. 304 BENJAMIN, PARK ................... 617| DAVIDSON, LUCRETIA M........... 600 BETHUNE, GEORGE W............ 523 DAVIDSON, MARGARET M......... 742 BOKER, GEORGE H. ................ 745 Dawes, Rufus. ..................... BRAINARD, John G. C. ............ 455 DENNIE, JOSEPH............ ....... BROOKS, JAMES G.................. 488 DINNIES, Anna P.................... BROOKS, MARIA ..................... 420 DOANE, GEORGE W................. Brooks, MARY E.................... 490 DRAKE, Joseph R.................. BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN.... 172 Dwight, Timothy.................. Bryant, WILLIAM C............... 377 EDWARDS, JONATHAN........... BUCKINGHAM, JOSEPH T.......... 225 EMBURY, EMMA C.................. BUCKMINSTER, JOSEPH S......... 282 EMERSON, RALPH W ............. • BURLEIGH, WILLIAM H............ 660 EVERETT, ALEXANDER H......... BUSHNELL, HORACE. ............... 519 EVERETT, EDWARD................. CAREY, HENRY C. ................... 365 FIELDS, JAMES T.................. . • 60 A 344 98 PLINT, TIMOTHY ...................... 236 MADISON, JAMES.................... 413 113 491 A PAGE 0000 PAGE SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN ............ 233 TUDOR, WILLIAM ....... SIMMS, WILLIAM G. ................ 546 VERPLANCK, GULIAN C............ 250 SMITH, ELIZABETH 0.............. 529 WALLACE, HORACE B............. SMITH, SAMUEL J................... 178 WARE, HENRY, JB.................. SMITH, SEBA......................... WARE, WILLIAM..................... SPARKS, JARED .................... 332 WASHINGTON, GEORGE ............ SPRAGUE, CHARLES ............. 352 WAYLAND, FRANCIS............... SPRAGUE, WILLIAM B. ............ 423 WEBSTER, DANIEL................... STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY.... 762 WEBSTER, Noah.................. STORY, JOSEPH ...................... 270 WELBY, AMELIA B.............. STOWE, HARRIET B................. 663 WHIPPLE, EDWIN P............... STREET, ALFRED B................. 653 WHITTIER, John G.............. SULLIVAN, WILLIAM................ 203 Wilcox, CARLOS................... SUMNER, CHARLES.................. 644 WILDE, RICHARD H. ............... 312 TAPPAN, WILLIAM B............... 405 WILLIS, NATHANIEL P............. 555 TAYLOR, BAYARD. .................. 765 WILSON, ALEXANDER .............. 144 TICKNOR, GEORGE................... 348 WILSON, JAMES..................... 68 TRUMBULL, JOHN................... 89 WIRT, WILLIAM ..................... 191 TUCKER, ST. GEORGE ............. 101 WITHERSPOON, JOHN................ 45 TUCKERMAN, HENRY T............ 675 / WOODWORTH, SAMUEL............. 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, acuteDess, and strength, has never been surpassed if ever equalled, the elder Edwards bas 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 Rer. 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 be 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 |