1. Ralph Waldo Emerson. _Nature_. _The American Scholar_. _Literary
Ethics_. _The Transcendentalism_. _The Over-soul_. _Address before
the Cambridge Divinity School_. _English Traits_. _Representative
Men_. _Poems_.

2. Henry David Thoreau. _Excursions_. _Walden_. _A Week on the
Concord and Merrimac Rivers_. _Cape Cod_. _The Maine Woods_.

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne. _Mosses from an Old Manse_. _The Scarlet
Letter_. _The House of the Seven Gables_. _The Blithedale Romance_.
_The Marble Faun_. _Our Old Home_.

4. _Transcendentalism in New England_. By O. B. Frothingham. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1875.


[1]The Indian name of Concord River.




CHAPTER V.

THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS.

1837-1861.

With few exceptions, the men who have made American literature what it
is have been college graduates. And yet our colleges have not commonly
been, in themselves, literary centers. Most of them have been small