Ralph Waldo Emerson. COMPLETE WORKS. Centenary Edition. 12 vols., crown 8vo. With Portraits, and copious notes by EDWARD WALDO EMERSON. Price per volume, $1.75. 1. Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. 2. Essays: First Series. 3. Essays: Second Series. 4. Representative Men. 5. English Traits. 6. Conduct of Life. 7. Society and Solitude. 8. Letters and Social Aims. 9. Poems. 10. Lectures and Biographical Sketches. II. Miscellanies. 12. Natural History of Intellect, and other Papers. With a General Index to Emerson's Collected Works. Riverside Edition. With 2 Portraits. 12 vols., each, 12mo. gilt top, $1.75; the set, $21.00. Little Classic Edition. 12 vols., in arrangement and contents identical with Riverside Edition, except that vol. 12 is without index. Each, 18mo, $1.25; the set, $15 00. POEMS. Household Edition. With Portrait. 12mo, $1.50; full gilt, $2.00. ESSAYS. First and Second Series. In Cambridge Classics. Crown 8vo, $1.00. NATURE, LECTURES, AND ADDRESSES, together with REPRESENTATIVE MEN. In Cambridge Classics. Crown 8vo, $1.00. PARNASSUS. A collection of Poetry edited by Mr. Emerson. Introductory Essay. Household Edition. 12m0, $1.50. Holiday Edition. 8vo, $3.00. EMERSON BIRTHDAY BOOK. With Portrait and Illustrations. 18mo. $1.00. EMERSON CALENDAR BOOK. 32mo, parchment-paper, 25 cents. CORRESPONDENCE OF CARLYLE AND EMERSON, 834-1872. Edited by CHARLES ELIOT Norton. 2 Library Edition. 2 vols. 12mo, gilt top, $3.00. CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN STERLING AND EMERSON. Edited, with a sketch of Sterling's life, by EDWARD WALDO EMERSON. 16mo, gilt top, $1.00. LETTERS FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON TO A FRIEND. 1838-1853. Edited by CHARLES ELIOT NORΤΟΝ. 16mo, gilt top, $1.00. THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN EMERSON AND GRIMM. Edited by F. W. HOLLS. With Portraits. 16mo, $1.00, net. Postpaid, $1.05. For various other editions of Emerson's works and Emerson Memoirs see catalogue. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK. PREFATORY NOTE. F04 1964 V1 9 MAIN 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. M235219 |