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. 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.- Ier 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 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 meet Washington Irving, Paulding, and Jeffrey.—The New Salma- 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 A Handsome Pair.- State of Society in the Town.- 56-64 65-83 84-96 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.-Iler 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.— 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 Marriage of her Sister to Mr. Joseph Warren Revere. Poem of the "Last Judgment," and "Percy's 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 170-191 My Mother's Health and Happiness.- Letters to Typhoid at Brush Hill.-Death of Mr. Marshall • 192-213 |