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....