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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from The World's Own Scene I. - A Village Green, with peasants dancing to the sound of rustic music. In the front stand Edward and Jacques, looking on. The dance ceases, the villagers disperse. Edward. Comes Leonora to the dance no more? I thought to find her here. Jacques. In other ways She wanders, with the stranger from the inn, That supercilious Signor Prettyman, Whose pleasure-travel stopped, some three weeks since, For th...

Excerpt from Margaret Fuller: Marchesa Ossoli The present volume bears the name of Margaret Fuller simply, because it is by this name that its subject is most widely known and best remembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage, but this later style and title were borne by our friend for a short period only, and in a country remote from her own. It was as Margaret Fuller that she took her place among the leading spirits of her time...

Excerpt from Passion-FlowersI have not sat at the heaven-spread board, Nor worn the fillet Of glossy bays, I have but hearkened your song without.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original for...

Excerpt from A Trip to Cuba Why one leaves home at all is a question that travellers are sure, sooner or later, to ask themselves, - I mean, pleasure-travellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, prese...

Excerpt from From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey Nor let it be supposed that these preliminary remarks undervalue the merits and dignity of those who write for ready money, whose meals and travels are at the expense of mysterious corporations, the very cocktail which fringes their daily experience being thrown in as a brightener of their wits and fancies. Thus would I. Too, have written, had anybody ordered me to d...

Excerpt from Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1845-1846Margareei' fuller's name is now one to conjure With. Few remain at the present day of those Who felt her personal attraction, or heard her eloquent discourse. The literary material Which she left behind her appears small in dimension, when thought of in com parison With the scope of her intellect and the height of her aspiration. Yet her name, once the subject of sarcasm, is now spoken Wit...

Excerpt from Francis William Bird: A Biographical SketchDuring his long life be many times received assurances from notable men, of the regard in which he was held.In the early days of the war (january, Governor John A. Andrew wrote him You are as good and true a friend, patriot, and man, as there is in the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

Excerpt from From Sunset Ridge: Poems Old and New About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfecti...

Excerpt from At SunsetThe putting together of her Occasional Poems'was my mother's latest literary work, and was inter rupted by her death, untimely, though in the full ness of years. In completing the publication which she had so much at heart, it has been thought best to include some personal poems which had never been revised by her, since, though her final judg ment might have rejected them, one and all breathe her spirit and speak in her ...

Excerpt from Masterpieces of American Eloquence: Christian Herald Selection The historians of antiquity attached so much importance to the utterances of the great men of whom they wrote, that they were fain to make such report as they could of the orations pronounced by these personages, on occasions of public interest. Where full knowledge in this regard was unattainable, the historians themselves, it is supposed, composed such addresses as ...

Excerpt from Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe Memorial services, The Music Hall Meeting, Hymn by william ellery channing, Prayer by Rev. Mr. Hale, Remarks by Governor rice, Eulogy by A. H. Bullock, Address by Rev. Dr. Caswell, Remarks by william gaston, Poem by oliver wendell holmes, Remarks by Rev. Dr. Hrdge, Remarks by francis W. Bird, Poem by Rev. Charles T. Brooks, Address by Rev. Edward everett hale, Remarks by Dr. E. M. Gallal'det, Eul...

Excerpt from Modern Society What means this summons, oh friends! to the groves of Academe? I heard, in the distance, the measured tread of Philosophy. I mused: "How grave and deliberate is she! How she matches thought with thought! How patiently she questions inference and conclusion! No irrelevance, no empty ballooning, is allowed in that Concord school. Nothing frivolous need apply there for admission." And lo! in the midst of this severe e...

Excerpt from Sex and Education: A Reply to Dr. E. H. Clarke's "Sex in Education"Despite Dr. Clarke's prominent position in this community, we do not feel compelled to regard him as the supreme authority on the subjects of which he treats The ob ject, then, of our publication is twofold. First and foremost we wish to put in a solid and tangible form the impression which his book makes upon men and women to whom the interests of Woman and of Hum...

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