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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Biographical Sketch
  4. Essays
    1. The Service
      1. I: Qualities of the Recruit
      2. II: What Music Shall We Have?
      3. III: Not How Many, but Where the Enemy Are
    2. Aulus Persius Flaccus
    3. A Walk to Wachusett
    4. Natural History of Massachusetts
    5. Dark Ages
    6. A Winter Walk
    7. The Landlord
    8. Paradise (to Be) Regained
    9. Homer; Ossian; Chaucer
      1. Homer
      2. Ossian
      3. Chaucer
      4. Poetry
    10. Herald of Freedom
    11. Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum
    12. Thomas Carlyle and His Works
    13. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    14. Sir Walter Raleigh
    15. Slavery in Massachusetts
    16. Life Without Principle
    17. Chesuncook
    18. A Plea for Captain John Brown
    19. After the Death of John Brown
    20. The Last Days of John Brown
    21. The Succession of Forest Trees
    22. Walking
    23. Autumnal Tints
      1. Introduction
      2. The Purple Grasses
      3. The Red Maple
      4. The Elm
      5. Fallen Leaves
      6. The Sugar-Maple
      7. The Scarlet Oak
    24. Wild Apples
      1. The History of the Apple-Tree
      2. The Wild Apple
      3. The Crab
      4. How the Wild Apple Grows
      5. The Fruit, and Its Flavor
      6. Their Beauty
      7. The Naming of Them
      8. The Last Gleaning
      9. The “Frozen-Thawed” Apple
    25. Night and Moonlight
    26. The Wellfleet Oysterman
    27. The Highland Light
    28. A Yankee in Canada
      1. I: Concord to Montreal
      2. II: Quebec and Montmorenci
      3. III: St. Anne
      4. IV: The Walls of Quebec
      5. V: The Scenery of Quebec; and the River St. Lawrence
  5. Endnotes
  6. Colophon
  7. Uncopyright

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