FOR

Volume second.

VI.  Jamaica plain, By W.H.  Channing
  first impressions
  A clue
  transcendentalism
  genius
  the Dial
  the woman
  the friend
  socialism
  Credo
  self-sovereignty

VII.  New York.  Journals, letters, &c. 
  Leaving home
  the highlands
  woman
  the tribune and Horace Greeley
  society

VIII.  Europe.  Letters
  London
  Edinburgh.—­De Quincey
  Chalmers
  A night on Ben lomond
  Joanna Baillie.—­HOWITTS.—­Smith
  Carlyle
  Paris
  Rachel
  Fourier,—­Rousseau
  Rome
  Americans in Italy
  the wife and mother
  the private marriage
  Aquila and Rieti
  calm after storm
  Margaret and her peers
  Florence

IX.  Homeward By W.H.  Channing
  spring-time
  omens
  the voyage
  the wreck

JAMAICA PLAIN

By W.H.  Channing.

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                         “Quando
  Lo raggio della grazia, onde s’accende
  Verace amore, e che poi cresce amando,
  Multiplicato in te tanto risplende,
  Che ti conduce su per quella scala,
  U’ senza risalir nessun discende,
  Qual ti negasse ’l vin della sua fiala
  Por la tua sete, in liberta non fora,
  Se non com’ acqua oh’ al mar non si cala.”

  Dante.

  “Weite Welt und breites Leben,
  Langer Jahre redlich Streben,
  Stets geforscht und stets gegruendet,
  Nie geschlossen, oft geruendet,
  Aeltestes bewahrt mit Treue,
  Freundlich aufgefasstes Neue,
  Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke: 
  Nun! man kommt wohl eine Strecke.”

Goethe.

                  “My purpose holds
  To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
  Of all the western stars, until I die. 
  It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
  It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles.”

Tennyson.

“Remember how august the heart is.  It contains the temple not only
of Love but of Conscience; and a whisper is heard from the
extremity of one to the extremity of the other.”

  Landor

  “If all the gentlest-hearted friends