HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue FinT851.990.45 Harvard University, TIANSFERRED TO 1936 Copyright, 1896, All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. CONTENTS. 22 PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 7 AN INTERVIEW with MILES STANDISH A MODERN INSTANCE OF A WISE SAW TO HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY WHAT A CUNNING SILVERSMITH is Frost! ODE WRITTEN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE COCHITU- 52 ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARAY To H. W. L. ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1867 To WHITTIER ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL died August 12, 1891, at Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the house where he was born, February 22, 1819. His early life was spent in Cambridge, and he has sketched many of the scenes in it very delightfully in Cambridge Thirty Years Ago, in his volume of Fireside Travels, as well as in his early poem, An Indian Summer Reverie. His father |