BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1895

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS

I. HENRY D. THOREAU

II. SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

III. SCIENCE AND THE POETS.

IV. MATTHEW ARNOLD'S CRITICISM

V. ARNOLD'S VIEW OF EMERSON AND CARLYLE

VI. GILBERT WHITE'S BOOK

VII. A MALFORMED GIANT

VIII. BRIEF ESSAYS:

The frontispiece, representing a view on the Concord River,
and the vignette of Mr. Burroughs' study at Riverby were etched
by Charles H. Woodbury.

INDOOR STUDIES

I

HENRY D. THOREAU

IN

"Walden" Thoreau enumerates, in a seriohumorous vein, his various unpaid occupations, such as inspector of storms, surveyor of forest paths and all across-lot routes, shepherd and herder to the wild stock of the town, etc. Among the rest he says: "For a long time I was reporter to a journal of no very wide circulation, whose editor has never yet seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains were their own reward." The journal to which Thoreau so playfully alludes, consisting of many manuscript volumes, is now the property of Mr. H. G. O. Blake, an old friend and correspondent of his, and his rejected contributions to it, after a delay of nearly twenty years, are being put into print. "Early Spring in Massachusetts," "Summer," and "Winter," lately published, are made up of excerpts from this journal. A few