THE greater portion of the material presented
in this volume was delivered as lectures on
the Vanuxem Foundation at Princeton
University in March 1931. I wish to take this
opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the
many courtesies of the University, with which I
once had the honor of being associated.

For permission to quote from Emerson Works
and Journals, I am indebted to his authorized pub-
lishers, the Houghton Mifflin Company. For the
privilege of examining the hitherto unpublished
manuscripts of Emerson, I owe thanks to the present
representatives of his family, particularly to Edward
Waldo Forbes and to Raymond Emerson.

The frontispiece portrait is reproduced from a
lithograph recently made by the Forbes Lithograph
Company of Boston. It was redrawn from a very
small tintype of Emerson apparently taken about
the middle of the eighteen-fifties. I am particularly
grateful to the Forbes Lithograph Company for
their kind permission to reproduce it.

BLISS PERRY

Cambridge, April 1931.

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