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INDEX.

Page INDEX.

INDEX.

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  • LETTER I.
    The Battery in the Morning. Streets of Modern Babylon. Street
    Musicians 1

  • LETTER II.
    Washingtonian Temperance Society. Law of Love, and the
    Law of Force. Trusting each others' Honesty. The Dog-Killers
    5

  • LETTER III.
    Sectarian Walls. Ideas of God. The Poor Woman's Garden.
    Society makes the Crime it Punishes 11

  • LETTER IV.
    Hoboken. Weehawken. Hamilton's Duel. Indian Sarcasm.15

  • LETTER V.
    Highland Benevolent Society. Clans and Sects 21

  • LETTER VI.
    The Jews. Black Jews. Old Clothes. Reading by Lamplight
    in the Day-time 25


  • vi

    Page vi
  • LETTER VII.
    Rev. John Summerfield. The Farmer Crazed by Speculators.
    Greenwood Cemetery. Wearing Mourning 35

  • LETTER VIII.
    The Shipping. Story of the Yankee Boy and his Acorn. The
    Kamschatka and Belle Poule 40

  • LETTER IX.
    Ravenswood. Grant Thorburn. Lawrie Todd 49

  • LETTER X.
    Varieties of Character, and Changing Population of New-York.
    Anecdote of Absent Men. The Bag-pipe Player. Beautiful
    Burial of a Stranger in the Western Forest 56

  • LETTER XI.
    The Eloquent Coloured Preacher. Story of Zeek, the Shrewd
    Slave 61

  • LETTER XII.
    The New Year. Past and Future. Music written by Vibration.
    Caution to Reformers 70

  • LETTER XIII.
    Scenery within the Soul. Valley de Sham. Truth in Act as
    well as Word 76

  • LETTER XIV.
    Little Newspaper Boy. The Foreign Boys and their Mother.
    The Drunken Woman. Burying-ground for the Poor..82


  • vii

    Page vii
  • LETTER XV.
    McDonald Clarke 88

  • LETTER XVI.
    A Great Fire. Jane Plato's Garden. Money is not Wealth.98

  • LETTER XVII.
    Doves in Broadway. The Dove and the Pirate. Prisoners and
    Doves. Doddridge's Dream. Genius Inspired by Holiness.103

  • LETTER XVIII.
    Origin of Manhattan. Antiquities of New-York. David Reynolds.
    The Fish and the Ring 109

  • LETTER XIX.
    Animal Magnetism. The Soul watching its own Body. Anecdote
    of Second Sight 118

  • LETTER XX.
    The Birds. Anecdote of Petion's Daughter. The Bird, the
    Snake, and the White Ash. The Spanish Parrot. My Swallows
    125

  • LETTER XXI.
    Staten Island. Sailors' Snug Harbour 133

  • LETTER XXII.
    The Non-Resisting Colony 137

  • LETTER XXIII.
    The Florida Slave-Trader and Patriarch. Boswell's Remarks on
    the Slave-Trade. The Fixed Point of View 141


  • viii

    Page viii
  • LETTER XXIV.
    The Red Roof. The Little Child Picking a Clover Blossom.
    Music and Fire-Works at Castle Garden 150

  • LETTER XXV.
    Rockland Lake. Major Andre. The Dutch Farmers..157

  • LETTER XXVI.
    Flowers. All Being is Spirally Interlinked 167

  • LETTER XXVII.
    Music and Light. Instrument Invented by Guzikow. Music
    of the Planets. The Burning Bell-Tower of Hamburg. Mysterious
    Music in Pascagoula Bay. The Mocking Bird and the
    Bob-o'-Link. The Response of Musical Instruments to each
    other 172

  • LETTER XXVIII.
    The Little Match-Seller. Beautiful Anecdote of a Street Musician.
    Anecdote of a Spanish Donkey. Horses Tamed by
    Kindness. The one Voice which brought Discord into Harmony
    181

  • LETTER XXIX.
    Blackwell's Island. Long Island Farms. Anecdote from Sylvio
    Pellico. A Model Almshouse among the Society of Friends187

  • LETTER XXX.
    Croton Water. The Fountains. Fear of Public Opinion. Social
    Freedom. The Little Boy that run away from Providence.200

  • LETTER XXXI.
    Capital Punishment. Conversation with William Ladd. Circumstantial
    Evidence 207


  • ix

    Page ix
  • LETTER XXXII.
    Mercy to Criminals. Mrs. Fry's Answer. Love-tokens from
    Friends. Made Good by being Beloved; a still higher joy to
    love others 218

  • LETTER XXXIII.
    The Catholic Church. Puseyism. Worship of Irish Labourers.
    Anecdotes of the Irish 225

  • LETTER XXXIV.
    Woman's Rights 232

  • LETTER XXXV.
    Lighting. Daguerreotype. Electricity. Effects of Climate.240

  • LETTER XXXVI.
    The Indians 247

  • LETTER XXXVII.
    Green Old Age. Swedenborg and Fourier 257

  • LETTER XXXVIII.
    The Snow Storm. The Cold-footed and Warm-heated Little
    Ones 261

  • LETTER XXXIX.
    The Ministrations of Sorrow 267

  • LETTER XL.
    May-Day in New-York. The Storks of Nuremberg. All the
    Nations are Brethren 271


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