Lowell's description of a dozen or more years ago, which sets forth his repeated experience in one of Emerson's lecture audiences at Cambridge.

Those who have heard Emerson's lectures know that the original verses sometimes distributed through them-mingled with the melody of the prose - lent them not a little of their highest charm; so that what is true of the one will not seem unfit to depict the other. Lowell says: "I can never help applying to Emerson what Ben Johnson said of Bacon: 'There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers

could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke? Those who heard him while their natures were yet plastic, and their mental nerves trembled under the slightest breath of diviner air, will never cease to feel and say:

"Was never eye did see that face,

Was never ear did hear that tongue,
Was never mind did mind his grace,
That ever thought the travail long;
But eyes and ears and every thought
Were with his sweet perfections caught.""

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APPENDIX.

HE late Mr. John A. Dorgan, a young writer of rare promise, and the author of a book of poems, called "Studies," wrote a very able essay, as I remember it now, some eighteen years or more ago, for the Boston Commonwealth, on Emerson's poetry, with special reference to the changes made in it. I have not been able to find this, or to recall any part of it for consultation. But, if a vivid impression may be trusted, I am sure it is worth reprinting.

On comparing the early edition of Emerson's poems with the so-called blue-and-gold one of 1865, which I have done, line for line, I find the most numerous changes occur in the poems titled "Astræa” and "Monadnock." A bad typographical error deserves pointing out in this blue-and-gold editionthe substitution of the word Like for Life, in the seventh line of the second stanza, in the poem of "The Sphinx."

But my reference here would be inexcusably incomplete if I should forget to mention, as a document of interest in this connection, Mr. William Sloane Kennedy's fine article on "The Discarded Poems of Emerson." It appeared in the Literary World of Oct. 7, 1882.

Contributed by WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY to the "Literary World," and used here by special permission.

Page-references are to Selected Poems [Copyright, 1876, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.]; for the convenience of those using earlier editions, the name of the poem is given with each reference. In making the index, the plan has been to select from each line or paragraph the most striking and significant word or words. Quite a number of poems that appeared in the familiar brown-cloth editions were omitted by Mr. Emerson in the final 1876 edition. He has also changed many lines in the poems given in that edition. Our love for him is so great that we hardly dare say, against his wishes, that we hope every scrap of his poetry will be included in some complete edition, after the expiration of the present copyright. But, certainly, many of the poems he omitted are too good to be lost.

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p. 161.

ACORN'S.

The a. cup. Ode to Beauty, p. 81.

ADORNING. Itself with thoughts of thee a.Ode to Beauty, p. 83.