Chapter II: Lenox and Middle Berkshire

_Beloved of the Litterateurs--La Maison Rouge--Where The House of
the Seven Gables was written--Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Scenes--
The Bowl--Beecher's Laurel Lake--Kemble--Bryant's Monument
Mountain--Stockbridge--Catherine Sedgwick--Melville's Piazza
and Chimney--Holmes--Longfellow--Pittsfield_ 176

A DAY WITH THE GOOD GRAY POET

_Walk and Talk with Socrates in Camden--The Bard's Appearance and
Surroundings--Recollections of his Life and Work--Hospital
Service--Praise for his Critics--His Literary Habit, Purpose,
Equipment, and Style--His Religious Bent--Readings_ 201

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Wayside, Concord _Frontispiece._

The Thoreau-Alcott House,--Present Appearance 21

The Grave of Emerson 78

Where Longfellow lived 108

THE CONCORD PILGRIMAGE