anchored by conscience to primal truths, and was in no danger of drifting into any dangerous extreme. She was conservative by education and habit, but progressive by the independent activity of her mind.

As all this, and more, will be found in this work, we leave its readers to discover it and enjoy it without further comment. We must repeat, in concluding these few remarks, that if scholars call on men to rejoice at the discovery of the mummy of an Egyptian king, or the finding of a scrap of Cicero in a palimpsest, how much more glad should we be to have disinterred for us something of the past home life of a former generation, so that we can say to our children, "This is the way in which your grandparents lived and thought and acted fifty or a hundred years ago"!

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Anne Jean Robbins.—Her Birth and Surroundings.—

Her Grandfather, Rev. Nathaniel Robbins.- Dr.

Estes Howe's Letter about her Father. Stephen

Brewer's Reminiscences.- R. B. Forbes's.- Her

Mother. Her Hutchinson Ancestry.-Anne

Hutchinson.- Edward Hutchinson.- Family

Pride,

CHAPTER II.

Her Childhood.- Milton Hill.- Dr. Holbrook.-Her

School.- Miss Ann Bent.- Funeral of George

Washington.- Winters in Boston.- Birth of her

Little Sister.- Ladies' Academy.- Her Room-

mate.- Removal to Brush Hill.-The Earlier

Inmates. Her Interest in Education.- Emma

Forbes and Mary Pickard.— Aunt Catherine's

Letter describing Brush Hill.-The Misses Bar-

ker's Politics, and Religious Interests of the Day,

CHAPTER III.

Recollections of Brush Hill.- Cousin Mary Warc.-

My Aunt Howc.- Anne Jean's Taste for Read-

ing. The Books the Sisters studied. Her

Commonplace Book.- Sally's Sonnet in Memory

of Mrs. Whipple.- Their Winter Visits. Their

Dress. Channing and Buckminster, .

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CHAPTER IV.

Anne Jean's Letters.- Visit to Hingham.- Letter
dictated to Mary Pickard.— Anecdotes of Hing-
ham.- Letter to Eliza Robbins.- Visits of the
Sisters to New York.-They mect Washington
Irving, Paulding, and Jeffrey.- The New Salma-
gundi.-Anne Jean goes to New York.- Letters
from New York in 1810 and 1811,

CHAPTER V.

Anne Jean visits Green Vale.-She there meets Judge
Lyman.- Becomes engaged.- Description of
Judge Lyman by Mr. Rufus Ellis.- News of
Anne Jean's Engagement reaches Brush Hill.—
Sisters in Commotion.-Sally writes the News
to Eliza.- Death of Aunt Forbes.- Her Portrait
by Copley.-Anne Jean marries.- Removes to
Northampton.- Description of Northampton at
that Day.-"Aunt Dwight."-The Large Fam-
ily." Burty.". "Lyman Floodgates."- Her
Treatment of Children.-The Bidefuls.- Fine
Health and Ignorance about Ill Health,

CHAPTER VI.

A Handsome Pair.- State of Society in the Town.-
Beauty of the Scenery.-Stage-coach Days.—
Story of a Stage-driver.- My Father's Indus-
try.- Social Qualities.― Hartford Convention.-
Correspondence with Brush Hill and Milton
Friends.- Birth of Joseph.- Description of the
House.- My Mother's Music.- Her Instructions
in Humanity. Her Annual Visits to Boston and
Brush Hill.- My First Journey.-Journeys of
Judge Lyman and Judge Howe.- Anti-slavery
Talk in a Stage-coach.— The Home Coming and
Welcoming Friends,.

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CHAPTER VII.

Judge Howe. Sally's Visits to Northampton.-Be-

comes engaged.- Letter from Catherine Robbins

describing Worthington.- William Cullen Bry-

ant.- Dr. Bryant.— Eleanor Walker.- Visits be-

tween the Sisters.— Judge Howe's Change of

Religious Opinions.- Letters of Mrs. Howe to

Miss Cabot containing Accounts of her Wedding

Journey, Worthington Home, etc. Her Reading

of Tacitus, "The Giaour," and Virgil.— Allusions

to the War of 1812, the Embargo, etc.— The Lit-

erature of that Day.- Visit from Mary Pickard.—

Scott's Early Novels.-- Sismondi.- Loss of a

Child.- Death of Mr. Thacher,.

CHAPTER VIII.

Mrs. Lyman's Letters to Emma Forbes, and Births of

her Daughter Anne Jean and her Son Edward.—

Letters.- Village News.- Visits from Friends.-

Reading Miss Hamilton's "Popular Essays.”—

"North American Review."- Mrs. Howe's Let-

ters to Miss Forbes.- Allusions to President

Kirkland and Mr. Thacher.-Story of Louisa.-

Mr. Edward Everett.-Life of Mr. Edgeworth,

CHAPTER IX.

Marriage of her Sister to Mr. Joseph Warren Revere.
Family Love for "Aunt Lyman.”— Marriage of
Abby Lyman to Mr. William Greene.- Her Love
for Abby.- Letters to her.- Letter to Emma
Forbes containing Dissertation on Friendship
and Lord Clarendon.- Visit from Mr. and Mrs.
William Lyman.- Mentions John Lowell, and his
reading "Yamoyden."-She goes to Troy and
Saratoga.- Meets Attorney-General Wirt, and
sees Joseph Bonaparte.- Mentions Hillhouse's

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Poem of the "Last Judgment," and "Percy's

Masque," Cullen Bryant's Poem, "Life of John

Wesley," etc.- Mrs. Thomas Cary.— Destruction

of the "Albion," and Loss of Anne Powell and

Professor Fisher, the Betrothed of Miss C.

Beecher. She visits Stockbridge, and describes

the Sedgwick Family.- Death of Mrs. Inches.-

Death of George Tyng.- Birth of a Daughter,

CHAPTER X.

Religious Interests.- Agreement of my Father and

Mother in Liberal Views.- Patience with Nar-

rowness." Parson Williams."- His Interest in

my Father as a Boy.- My Mother's Efforts for

Liberal Christianity.- Her Sunday-school Class.

-Her Letter to Mrs. Murray on Controversial

Topics.- My Aunt Howe's Letter to Miss Cabot

on Calvinism.-The Establishment of the Round

Hill School, .

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CHAPTER XI.

My Mother's Health and Happiness.- Letters to
Miss Forbes and Mrs. Greene.- Village News.—
Round Hill School.-Joseph Lyman and John
Forbes.- Mary Pickard.— Caroline Lee Hentz.—
Court Week.- Cattle Show.- Miss Sedgwick.-
Miss Rotch.- Cousin Emma.- Letters from
Mrs. Lyman and Mrs. Howe to Emma on her
Departure for Europe,

CHAPTER XII.

Typhoid at Brush Hill.- Death of Mr. Marshall
Spring. Aunt Howe goes to nurse her Sis-
ters. A Faithful Servant dies.- Letters from
Mrs. Lyman.-A Dramatic Entertainment in
Northampton in 1826.-"The Lady of the

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