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and that his white corpse bristled with twenty rusty harpoons, thrust into him in earlier combats. Apparently he was called "Mocha" from an island off the coast of Chili. Mr. Garnett suggests that the author of this Journal (attributed to 1841) is to be identified with the author of certain books on voyages and expeditions, in the name of J. N. Reynolds, New York, 1831 and 1836.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

So far as the prose works published in Melville's lifetime are concerned, the following note is based upon the bibliography compiled by Mr. Michael Sadleir, and printed in Vol. XII. of the Standard Edition of Melville's works. My thanks are due to Mr. Sadleir for permission to draw upon his bibliography.

Italics distinguish the English editions.

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas, etc. Two Volumes. New York: Wiley and Putnam. 1846.

Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands, etc. London: John Murray. 1846.

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. Two Volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1847.

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, etc. London: John Murray. 1847.

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley. 1849.

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. Two Volumes. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1849.

Redburn: His First Voyage, etc. Two Volumes. London: Richard Bentley. 1849.

Redburn: His First Voyage, etc. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1849.

White Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War. Two Volumes. London: Richard Bentley. 1850.

White Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1850.

The Whale. Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley. 1851. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers.

1851.

Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1852.

Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. 1852.

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 1855.

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. London: G. Routledge & Co. 1855.

The Piazza Tales. New York: Dix & Edwards. 1856.

The Piazza Tales. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. 1856. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. New York. Dix, Edwards & Co. 1857.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts. 1857.

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1866.

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. Two
Volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1876.
John Marr and Other Sailors. New York: De Vinne Press.
1888.

Timoleon, etc. New York: Caxton Press. 1891.

POSTHUMOUS

The Apple-tree Table, and Other Sketches. With an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin. University Press: Princeton. 1922.

Also various stories, essays, reviews and poems, previously uncollected, included in the Standard Edition. Sixteen Volumes. London: Constable & Company, Ltd. 1922-1924.

INDEX

American contemporary writ-

ers, 152-154, 181, 184-186
American literature, 20, 153-
154, 181, 184-86

Battle-Pieces, 67-68, 155-160
Billy Budd, 33, 68, 131-136,
151, 177

Blake, William, 127-130, 181

Chase, Jack, 32-33, 35
Clarel, 64-65, 155, 166-169, 180
Coan, Titus Munson, 68, 82
Confidence-Man, The, 62-63,
140-144

Conrad, Joseph, 98, 148-149

Dana, R. H., 23, 36, 61, 76, 86
Darwin, Charles, 82
Davies, W. H., 87
Defoe, Daniel, 85
Dickens, Charles, 144
Duyckinck, E., 45

Emerson, R. W., 58
English contemporary writers,
87, 184-186

Frazer, Sir J. G., 79
Fruit of Travel, 64

Hardy, Thomas, 158-159
Hawes, Charles Boardman, 125
Hawthorne, Julian, 71, 178
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 49-58,
61, 63, 70, 72, 151-153, 178-
180, 185

I and my Chimney, 52
Irving, Washington, 153
Israel Potter, 47, 60-61, 137-
140

Kipling, Rudyard, 118

Lawrence, D. H., 117

Mardi, 40, 44-45, 95-108, III,
173
Marquesas, 25
Marr, John, 160-162
Marryat, Captain, 86, 88
MELVILLE, HERMAN, parent-
age and birth, 1-5; child-
hood, 5-10; identity with
"Redburn," 7; first voyage,
10; in Liverpool, 15-18;
returns to New York, 18;
teaching and journalism, 19;
joins "Acushnet," 22-27,
75; deserts, 25-27; joins
"Julia", 28; under arrest,
29; joins "Leviathan", 30;
and "United States", 32-40;
returns to Boston, 37; first
book, 42; marriage, 44;
second European visit, 45-
49, 138; return to New
York, 49; meets Hawthorne,
49-58; further European
travels, 63-65; lectures, 65-
66; seeks Consular appoint-
ment, 66; meets Lincoln,
66-67; death, 72
Milton, John, 116, 131

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