BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1876,

BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Copyright, 1883,

BY EDWARD W. EMERSON.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

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CONTENTS.

I. USES OF GREAT MEN

II. PLATO; OR, THE PHILOSOPHER

PLATO: NEW READINGS

III. SWEDENBORG; OR, THE MYSTIC

IV. MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SKEPTIC

V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET

VI. NAPOLEON; OR, THE Man of the WORLD