I have run over the birth-histories of the nations of Europe, in their chaotic rise from barbarism; and have just completed a bird's-eye...

The bluebirds have come! and the meadow-lark has sung over in the fields behind the garden, these two or three mornings. I have dreamed of s...

What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of. I am out of doors ev...

Eternal life and eternal death; what do these words mean? This is the question that comes up again and again. It has recently been brought u...

I cannot let this birthday pass without a memorial of its sun's rising and setting on flower-gifts from these my girl-friends: a wreath ...

This day broke upon our country in gloom; for the sounds of war came up to us from the South,—war between brethren; civil war; well may ...

The conflict is deepening; but thanks to God, there is no wavering, no division, now, at the North! All are united, as one man; and from a p...

I have actually forgotten to write for months in this book. I fear me, "my heart is nae here." I have lived a good deal in the pas...

Since I came to Beverly I have been looking over "Wilhelm Meister" for the first time. I am disappointed in it, and have little re...

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others gr...

Christmas, 1860. Two or three books I have read lately. Mrs. Jameson's "Legends of the Madonna" is full of that fine appreciat...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....