Letters from New York
Publisher: New York : C.S. Francis; Boston : J.H. Francis
Published: 1845
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: LETTER I.; title: Christmas. The principles of Peace. The Town that would not Fight. A Christmas Visitor .to the Poor. High Bents paid by the Poor in New York ; their kindness to each other. 13; title: LETTER II.; title: Ole Bui heard for the first time. The vast significance of Music. 22; title: LETTER III.; title: New Year's Festivities. The Callithumpian Band. The Nymph Crotona. 27; title: LETTER IV.; title: Reminiscences of a former State of Existence. The Remembered Home. 32; title: LETTER V.; title: The story of poor Charity Bowery. 48; title: LETTER VI.; title: Mnemonics, or Artificial Memory. Wonderful instances of Memory. Anecdote of Voltaire; of Pope Clement 6th. Systems of Mnemonics. Dickens' Christmas Carol. 57; title: LETTER VII.; title: Valentine's Day. Story of the Umbrella Girl and Lord Henry Stuart. 66; title: LETTER VIII.; title: Description of Mammoth Cave. .75; title: LETTER IX.; title: A walk down Broadway. The little Hoop-Girl and her Brother. 96; title: LETTER X.; title: Hope Always. Human Progress. Emancipation in the British West Indies. The position of Ireland. O'Connel. 99; title: LETTER XI.; title: Driesbach's Menagerie. Lectures on Anatomy. Analogy between the circulation of the Blood and the progress of Truth in Society. 108; title: LETTER XII.; title: Spiritual Correspondences, illustrated largely by Music. Correspondence of Light, of Water, of Oil, of Clothing. 113; title: LETTER XIII.; title: A popular definition of the original application of the word Transcendental. The Transcendental style of Writing. Playful account of a Transcendental Conversation. 125; title: LETTER XIV.; title: Anecdotes of Hannah Adams. 130; title: LETTER XV.; title: Animals. Judge Edmonds and the Kitten. Amusing Anecdote of a Fox. Traditions concerning Pythagoras. 138; title: LETTER XVI.; title: Waste Lauds of Virginia. The deserted Church. 144; title: LETTER XVII.; title: The eccentric German. The Burgomaster of Stuttgard. Swabian Bonnets. 150; title: LETTER XVIII.; title: Fourth of July. Fireworks. Native Americans and Foreigners. 161; title: LETTER XIX.; title: Children in Union Park. The House covered with Vines. Fountains. Bath for the Poor. Croton Water. The Alhamra. Philharmonic Concerts. Italian Opera. Castle Garden. Niblo's Garden. Vauxhall. The Night Blooming Cereus. Hoboken. American Museum. Theatres. 167; title: LETTER XX.; title: Genius and Skill. The Romance of Thot and Freia. 176; title: LETTER XXI.; title: Steam-boat Excursions. Music. Saturn and the Earth. The Sailor's Home. Institution at Rennes. The large-souled Mechanic. 195; title: LETTER XXII.; title: Swedenborg's Views of the Future Life. The Doctrine of Correspondence. Spiritual Correspondences of Music. 202; title: LETTER XXIII.; title: The Arts' Union. Bonfield, Cropsey, Leutze, Crawford, Powers, Kneeland. 214; title: LETTER XXIV.; title: Greenwood Cemetery. The apparently Dead restored to Life. Chime of Bells in Philadelphia. The Swiss Bell-Ringers 221; title: LETTER XXV.; title: The Violin. Effects of Scenery on Music. The Northmen. Expression of Scotch and Irish Music. Lizst's Piano-playing. Lines to Ole Bui 228; title: LETTER XXVI.; title: The Millerites. Sir Harry Falkland. Various calculations concerning the end of the World. 235; title: LETTER XXVII.; title: Autumn Woods. Mountains. Profitable investments in Religion. President Edwards. 241; title: LETTER XXVIII.; title: Spirit of Trade. Amusing Advertisements. Razor Strops. Luck and Knack. Self-Love. Thorough Bass, or fundamental Harmony. The perfect chord of Music and of Colours. Fourier's perfect Social Chord. The Major and Minor Mode. 248; title: LETTER XXIX.; title: The Prison Association. Encouragement instead of Driving. The Criminal's account of her brief Trial. Anecdotes of individuals saved by the kindness of Isaac T. Hopper. Gentleness toward the Insane. Dorothea L. Dix. 258; title: LETTER XXX.; title: Ole Bui's Niagara and Solitude of the Prairie. Genius and Criticism. Anecdote of Haydn and of Beethoven. The tone of an Instrument, changed by the manner of playing upon it. 272; title: LETTER XXXI.; title: Increase of Luxury in New York. Employment essential to Happiness. Women peculiarly injured by the want of high motives to Exertion. 279