A WALK TO WACHUSETT

THE LANDLORD

A WINTER WALK

THE SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES

WALKING

AUTUMNAL TINTS

WILD APPLES

NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT




BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

BY R.W. EMERSON.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who
came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey. His character exhibited
occasional traits drawn from this blood in singular combination with a
very strong Saxon genius.

He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817. He was
graduated at Harvard College in 1837, but without any literary