Bible: 
    Mary Emerson’s study, 16;
    Mosaic cosmogony, 18;
    the Exodus, 35;
    the Lord’s Supper, 58;
    Psalms, 68, 181, 182, 253;
    lost Paradise, 101;
    Genesis, Sermon on the Mount, 102;
    Seer of Patmos, 102, 103;
    Apocalypse, 105;
    Song of Songs, 117;
    Baruch’s roll, 117, 118;
    not closed, 122;
    the Sower, 154;
    Noah’s Ark, 191;
    Pharisee’s trumpets, 255;
    names and imagery, 268;
    sparing the rod, 297;
    rhythmic mottoes, 314;
    beauty of Israel, 351;
    face of an angel, 352;
    barren fig-tree, 367;
    a classic, 376;
    body of death, “Peace be still!” 379;
    draught of fishes, 381;
    its semi-detached sentences, 405;
    Job quoted, 411;
    “the man Christ Jesus,” 412;
    scattering abroad, 414. 
    (See Christ, God, Religion, etc.)

  Bigelow, Jacob, on rural cemeteries, 31.

  Biography, every man writes his own, 1.

  Blackmore, Sir Richard, controversy, 31.

  Bliss Family, 9.

  Bliss, Daniel, patriotism, 72.

  Blood, transfusion of, 256.

  Books, use and abuse, 110, 111. 
    (See Emerson’s Essays.)

  Boston, Mass.: 
    First Church, 10, 12, 13;
    Woman’s Club, 16;
    Harbor, 19;
    nebular spot, 25, 26;
    its pulpit darling, 27;
    Episcopacy, 28;
    Athenaeum, 31;
    magazines, 28-34;
    intellectual character, lights on its three hills, high caste
  religion, 34;
    Samaria and Jerusalem, 35;
    streets and squares, 37-39;
    Latin School, 39, 40, 43;
    new buildings, 42;
    Mrs. Emerson’s boarding-house, the Common as a pasture, 43;
    Unitarian preaching, 51;
    a New England centre, 52;
    Emerson’s settlement, 54;
    Second Church, 55-61;
    lectures, 87, 88, 191;
    Trimount Oracle, 102;
    stirred by the Divinity-School address, 126;
    school-keeping, Roxbury, 129;
    aesthetic society, 149;
    Transcendentalists, 155, 156;
    Bay, 172;
    Freeman Place Chapel, 210: 
    Saturday Club, 221-223;
    Burns Centennial, 224, 225;
    Parker meeting, 228;
    letters, 263, 274, 275;
    Old South lecture, 294;
    Unitarianism, 298;
    Emancipation Proclamation, 307;
    special train, 350;
    Sons of Liberty, 369;
    birthplace, 407;
    Baptists, 413.

  Boswell, James: 
    allusion, 138;
    one lacking, 223;
    Life of Johnson, 268.

  Botany, 403. 
    (See Science.)

  Bowen, Francis:  literary rank, 34;
    on Nature, 103, 104.

  Brook Farm, 159, 164-166, 189, 191. 
    (See Transcendentalism, etc.)

  Brown, Howard N., prayer, 355.

  Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. 
    (See Anti-Slavery, South.)