been made in pursuance of the authority given in his will to me, as his literary executor, acting in co-operation with his children, to publish or withhold from publication any of his unpublished papers. The portrait in the first volume was etched by Mr. Schoff from a photographic copy (kindly furnished by Mr. Alexander Ireland, of Manchester, England) of a daguerreotype taken in 1847 or 1848, probably in England. J. E. CABOT. CONTENTS. PAGE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, Aug. 31, 1837 LITERARY ETHICS. An Oration delivered before the Liter. ary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838 THE METHOD OF NATURE. An Oration delivered before MAN THE REFORMER. A Lecture read before the Mechan. ics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 215 . LECTURE ON THE TIMEs. Read at the Masonic Temple, THE CONSERVATIVE. A Lecture read in the Masonic Tem- ple, Boston, December 9, 1841 . |