The Poor Man—An Ideal Sketch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Topical Table of Contents ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. Textual Note xli
7. Emerson’s Essays 1
8. Thanksgiving 8
9. New Year’s Day 14
10. Miss Barrett’s Poems 20
11. The Liberty Bell for 1845 28
12. [Review of Charles Lanman, Letters from a Landscape Painter] 32
13. [Review of James Russell Lowell, Conversations on Some of the Old Poets] 35
14. Edgar A. Poe 42
15. [Review of Lydia H. Sigourney, Scenes in My Native Land] 46
16. French Novelists of the Day: Balzac . . . . . . . George Sand . . . . . . . Eugene Sue 54
17. [Review of Richard Hildreth, The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore] 65
18. [Review of The Child’s Friend, ed. Eliza L. Follen] 67
19. [Review of Anton Schindler, The Life of Beethoven] 71
20. [Review of Henry R. Schoolcraft, Oneota, or The Red Race of America] 80
21. Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet 89
22. [Review of Theodore Parker, The Excellence of Goodness] 93
23. Our City Charities. Visit To Bellevue Alms House, to the Farm School, the Asylum for the Insane, and Penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island 98
24. Writers Little Known Among Us. Milnes . . . Landor . . . Julius Hare. 105
25. Frederick Von Raumer upon the Slavery Question 116
26. ‘Ertheiler’s Phrase-Book’ 117
27. Mrs. Child’s Letters 119
28. [Review of Charles Anthon, A System of Latin Versification] 121
29. [Review of Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Saul. A Mystery] 124
30. ‘American Facts’ 126
31. Prevalent Idea that Politeness is too great a Luxury to be given to the Poor 128
32. [Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] 131
33. Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts 134
34. Story Books for the Hot Weather 138
35. United States Exploring Expedition 143
36. [Review of Charles Sealsfield, Tokeah; or the White Rose] 145
37. The Irish Character 146
38. Fourth of July 149
39. [Review of Anna Cora Mowatt, Evelyn] 152
40. [Review of Edgar Allan Poe, Tales] 153
41. The Irish Character 155
42. Thomas Hood 161
43. [Review of Caroline Norton, The Child of the Islands, and John Critchley Prince, Hours with the Muses] 173
44. First of August, 1845 183
45. Thomas Hood 189
46. Prince’s Poems 195
47. The Great Britain 207
48. [Review of Sylvester Judd, Margaret] 210
49. [Review of Philip James Bailey, Festus] 211
50. The Tailor 220
51. Jenny Lind . . . The Consuelo of George Sand 227
52. The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women. 233
53. Ole Bull 240
54. [Review of The Prose Works of John Milton] 245
55. Italy 252
56. The Celestial Empire 259
57. Italy 262
58. [Review of Caroline M. Kirkland, Western Clearings] 267
59. [Review of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems] 271
60. [Review of Frederick Von Raumer, America and the American People] 277
61. [Review of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems] 285
62. Study of the German Language 293
63. Peale’s Court of Death 295
64. Books of Travel 299
65. [Review of Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches] 306
66. [Review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] 317
67. 1st January, 1846 323
68. [Review of Schoolcraft Jones, Ellen; or Forgive and Forget] 333
69. Cassius M. Clay 338
70. Methodism at the Fountain 342
71. Publishers and Authors. Dolores by Harro Harring. 350
72. The Rich Man—An Ideal Sketch 359
73. [Review of Leigh Hunt, Italian Poets] 367
74. Consecration of Grace Church 372
75. The Poor Man—An Ideal Sketch 375
76. Instruction in the French Language 384
77. What Fits a Man to be a Voter? Is it to be White Within, or White Without? 386
78. Browning’s Poems 390
79. Wiley & Putnam’s Library 400
80. [“Age could not wither her . . .”] 402
81. “Mistress of herself, though china fall” 406
82. [Review of Harro Harring, Dolores: A Novel of South America] 410
83. Victory 424
84. The Grand Festival Concert at Castle Garden 426
85. [Review of Eliza W. Farnham, Life in Prairie Land] 429
86. [Review of Waddy Thompson, Recollections of Mexico] 431
87. Critics and Essayists 439
88. [Review of Joel T. Headley, Napoleon and His Marshals] 448
89. [Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse] 453
90. [Review of George Sand, Consuelo] 457
91. [Review of Thomas L. McKenney, Memoirs, Official and Personal] 464
92. [Review of Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, the Transformation and Ormond; or, the Secret Witness] 472
93. [Review of Anna Jameson, Memoirs and Essays] 476
94. [Review of Samuel Maunder, The Treasury of History] 481
95. Index 483