NEW AND COMPLETE COPYRight ediTION OF THE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. RIVERSIDE EDITION. In Eleven Volumes, Crown 8vo, cloth. This Edition includes the PROSE and POETICAL WRITINGS of Mr. EMERSON hitherto published, and in addition Two New Volumes of Essays, Lectures, and Speeches, prepared for Publication, in accordance with the terms of Mr. EMERSON'S Will, by his Literary Executor, Mr. J. ELLIOT CABOT. Vol. 1 NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES. ESSAYS. First Series. Vol. 2. LECTURES BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Riverside Edition (COPYRIGHT) LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK copy 1 CONTENTS. 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 81 117 149 181 PREFATORY NOTE. THE first eight volumes of the present edition of Mr. Emerson's writings contain his collected Essays as he left them, except some revision of the punctuation and the correction of obvious mistakes. The ninth volume comprises the pieces chosen by Mr. Emerson from the "Poems" and "May-Day' to form the "Selected Poems," with the addition of some poems which were omitted in that selection, and some that have remained unpublished. In many instances emendations which were pencilled in the margin by Mr. Emerson, but were not adopted in the "Selected Poems," are now introduced, upon the ground that, as they seem to have suggested themselves at the time when his powers were in their fullest vigor, it may fairly be supposed that he would, upon reconsideration, have admitted them. The tenth and eleventh volumes consist of lectures hitherto unprinted, and of "Occasional Addresses" and other prose-writings which have appeared separately or in periodicals. The selection from Mr. Emerson's MSS. has |