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On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto 239 On the Death of a Friend's Child 240 Eurydice 242 She Came and Went 245 The Changeling 245 The Pioneer 247 Longing 248 Ode to France 249 A Parable 254 Ode 255 Lines 257 To —— 258 Freedom 259 Bibliolatres 261 Beaver Brook 262 Appledore 263 Dara 265 TO J. F. H. 267 MEMORIAL VERSES. Kossuth 268 To Lamartine 269 To John G. Palfrey 271 To W. L. Garrison 273 On the Death of C. T. Torrey 274 Elegy on the Death of Dr. Channing 275 To the Memory of Hood 277 Sonnets 278 L'envoi 289 The Vision of Sir Launfal 293 A Fable for Critics 303 The Biglow Papers 357 The Unhappy Lot of Mr Knott 471 An Oriental Apologue 496

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

In the year 1639 Percival Lowle, or Lowell, a merchant of Bristol, England, landed at the little seaport town of Newbury, Mass.

We generally speak of a man's descent. In the case of James Russell Lowell's ancestry it was rather an ascent through eight generations. Percival Lowle's son, John Lowell, was a worthy cooper in old Newbury; his great-grandson was a shoemaker, his great-great-grandson was the Rev. John Lowell of Newburyport, the father of the Hon. John Lowell, who is regarded as the author of the clause in the