In doing homage to that sweet nature, we do it to the highest type of our common humanity. Emerson was a splendid manifestation of reason in its most comprehensive form, and with all its most godlike aspirations. - JOHN TYNDALL.

WORKS.

volumes.

Riverside Edition. With two Portraits. In eleven

This new library edition of the works of Mr. Emerson includes two new volumes of essays, lectures, and speeches. The order of the vol umes is as follows:

1. NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND Lectures.

[This book has heretofore borne the name "Miscellanies."]

2. ESSAYS. First Series.

3. ESSAYS. Second Series.

4. REPRESENTATIVE MEN.

5. ENGLISH TRAITS.

6. THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.

7. SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.

8. LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS.

9. POEMS.

10. LECTURES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. A New Volume. 11. MISCELLANIES. A New Volume.

Each volume 12mo, gilt top, $1.75; the set, $19.25.

"Little Classic" Edition. In eleven volumes. The arrangement of the volumes is identical with that of the Riverside Edition. Each volume 18mo, $1.25; the set, in box, $13.75.

POEMS. Household Edition. With Portrait. 12mo, $1.75; cr. 8vo, gilt, $2.00; half calf, $3.00; morocco or tree calf, $4.50. THE SAME. "Little Classic" Edition. ESSAYS. "Little Classic" Edition. $4.50.

Half calf, $2.25.

In two volumes, half calf,

FORTUNE OF THE REPUBLIC. 16mo, 50 cents; paper cov ers, 25 cents.

PARNASSUS. A Collection of Poetry. Household Edition. 12mo, $1.75.

Library Edition. 8vo, $3.50.

CULTURE, BEHAVIOR, BEAUTY, Etc.

No. 2.

32mo, 75 cents.

NATURE, LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, Etc.
No. 3. 32m0, 75 cents.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THIS volume contains nearly all the pieces included in the Poems and May-Day of former editions, and since Mr. Emerson's death has been substituted for the selection from his poems published by him as a part of this edition in 1876.1 In that volume he introduced six new poems and omitted many. Of those omitted, several are now restored, in accordance with the expressed wishes of many readers and lovers of them. Also, some pieces never before published are here given in an Appendix, on various grounds. Some of them appear to have had Mr. Emerson's approval, but to have been withheld because they were unfinished. These it seemed best not to suppress, now that they can never receive their completion. Others, mostly of an early date, remained unpublished, doubtless because of their personal and private nature. Some of these seem to have an autobiographic interest sufficient to justify their publication. Others again, often mere fragments, have been admitted as characteristic, or as expressing in poetic form thoughts found in the Essays.

In coming to a decision in these cases it seemed on the whole preferable to take the risk of including too 1 Selected Poems, "Little Classic " Edition.

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much rather than the opposite, and to leave the task of further winnowing to the hands of Time.

The readings adopted by Mr. Emerson in the Selected Poems have not always been followed here, but in some cases preference has been given to corrections made by him when he was in fuller strength than at the time of the last revision.

A change in the arrangement of the stanzas of May-Day, in the part representative of the march of Spring, received his sanction as bringing them more nearly in accordance with the events in Nature.

J. E. CABOT.