This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... He drew a circle with that pearly hand, His grace confin'd that beauty in the air, Those limbs so gentle now at rest from flight, Those quiet eyes now musing on the nighc. At page 102, he has the following: -- Dry leaves with yellow ferns, they are Fit wreath of Autumn, while a star Still, bright, and pure, our frosty air Shivers in twinkling points Of thin celestial hair And thus one side of Heaven anoints. This we think we can explain. Let us see. Dry leaves, mixed with yellow ferns, are a wreath fit for autumn at the time when our frosty air shivers a still, bright, and pure star with twinkling points of thin celestial hair, and with this hair, or hair plaster, anoints one side of the sky. Yes -- this is it -- no doubt. At page 123, we have these lines: My sweet girl is lying still In her lovely atmosphere; The gentle hopes her blue veins fill With pure silver warm and clear. O see her hair, O mark her breast Would it not, 0 comfort thee, If thou couldst nightly go to rest By that virgin chastity? Yes; we think, upon the whole, it would. The eight lines are entitled a "Song," and we should like very much to hear Mr. Channing sing it. Pages 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41, are filled with short "Thoughts" in what Mr. C. supposes to be the manner of Jean Paul. One of them runs thus: How shall I live? In earnestness. What shall I do? Work earnestly. What shall I give? A willingness. What shall I gain? Tranquillity. But do you mean a quietness In which I act and no man bless? Flash out in action infinite and free, Action conjoined with deep tranquillity, Resting upon the sours true utterance, And life shall flow as merry as a dance. All our readers will be happy to hear, we are sure, that Mr. C. is going "to flash out." Elsewhere at page...