Hedge, Frederic Henry:
at a party, 149;
quoted, 383.

Henry VII., tombs, 415.

Herbert, George:
Poem on Man, 102;
parallel, 170;
poetry, 281;
a line quoted, 345.

Herder, Johann Gottfried, allusion, 16.

Heredity:
Emerson's belief, 1, 2;
in Emerson family, 4, 19;
Whipple on, 389;
Jonson, 393.

Herrick, Robert, poetry, 281.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. (See _Emerson's Books_,--Nature.)

Hilali, The Flute, 399.

Hillard, George Stillman:
in college, 24, 25;
his literary place, 33;
aid, 276.

Hindoo Scriptures, 199, 200. (See _Bible, India_, etc.)

History, how it should be written, 168.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood:
reference to, 223;
on the Burns speech, 225;
kindness, 273, 274, 276-279;
at Emerson's death-bed, 349;
funeral address, 351-353.

Hoar, Samuel:
statesman, 72;
tribute, 213, 214.

Holland, description of the Dutch, 217.

Holley, Horace, prayer, 267.

Holmes, John, a pupil of Emerson, 50.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell:
memories of Dr. Ripley, 15;
of C.C. Emerson, 20, 21;
familiarity with Cambridge and its college, 45;
erroneous quotation from, 251, 252;
jest erroneously attributed to, 400, 401.

Holy Ghost, "a new born bard of the," 123. (See _Christ, God,
Religion_, etc.)

Homer:
poetic rank, 202, 320;
plagiarism, 205;
Iliad, 253;
allusion, 315;
tin pans, 325;
times quoted, 382. (See _Greek_, etc.)

Homer, Jonathan, minister of Newton, 15.

Hooper, Mrs. Ellen, The Dial, 159, 160.

Hope:
lacking in America, 143;
in every essay, 284.

Horace:
allusion, 22;
Ars Poetica, 316.

Horses, Flora Temple's time, 388.

Howard University, speech, 263.

Howe, Samuel Gridley, the philanthropist, 223.

Hunt, Leigh, meeting Emerson, 195.

Hunt, William, the painter, 223.

Idealism, 98-100, 146, 150.

Idealists:
Ark full, 191;
Platonic sense, 391.

Imagination:
the faculty, 141;
defined, 237, 238;
essay, 283;
coloring life, 324.

Imbecility, 231.

Immortality, 262. (See _God, Religion_, etc.)

Incompleteness, in poetry, 339.

India:
poetic models, 338;
idea of preexistence, 391;
Brahmanism, 397. (See _Emerson's Poems_,--Brahma.)

Indians:
in history of Concord, 71;
Algonquins, 72.

Inebriation, s