Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1864-1876

JOURNALS RALPH WALDO EMERSON WITH ANNOTATIONS EDITED BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON AND WALDO EMERSON FORBES -- I864 -1 876 -- CONTENTS JOURNAL LV From Journals FOR, WAR, DL and KL Beecher on mobs. Dinner to General Burnside Mr. Storeys question. Chapin as a lecturer. Magnifi- cent Florence. Obstacles to philanthropy. Dr. Jack- son on goId mines. Saturday Club dinner. Obit- uaries of Thackeray. Captain 0. W. Holmes. Frances improvisations. Berthollets courage. Talk with Alcott English and American genius. Our clergys weakening hold on tradition a new religion of Virtue and Beauty great sentiment The Spirit Enthusiasm. Barriers. Agassizs success in Chicago CIub meeting plan for Shakspeares birthday. Mr. Emersons plea for Concord schools. Bans-mats. Thoreaus letter to a lady. Parents and children. Aerial navigation coming. The hostile English press infatuated aristocracy. New blood disease. Unmind- h1 nations selfish leaders. Congenial men. Must read Renan. Conceit and humility power of individ- uals. Scholars method. Bandmann reads Hamlet. Thoreau on a book. Invitations for Shakspeare Ter- centenary Festival. School committee notes. Bias. Letter to Matthew Arnold. Blake on Wordsworth. Shakspeare his felicities does not speak of tobacco. The Festival, the company Agassizs speech. Shaks- peares magic the wonder at him grows his courage and competence. Conservative and Reformer. Pascal. Shakspeare again the sonnets his language and direct power. A Shakspeare professorship. In the plays thestorydistractsfiomthepoetry . . . . . 3-31 Physiology of taste country life. No age in intellect. Alcott on sons and daughters. Translation of Michel Angelos sonnet. College mathematics, their over- emphasis andabuse crowd out other studies. Haw- thornes funeral, his fiiends James Freeman Clarkes address the tragic element Emersons disappoint- ment in not having reached companionship. The child on the clergyman. The genius of a race. Health the helper. Musics omniscience. Oppositions value. Lesson of the spider. A hotel helps the writer other helpful circumstances. Occidental respect for human life. The French on English art. Atmospheric influ- ences. The Master of Eton on its influence. Renan on Paris. Advancing years. Helplessness in new con- ditions. Moral of latent disease. The joy of insight. Rafiele. American reserves the new inventions. Solitary inspirations. Kings. Manners a castle. Con- solations of old age. Every age winnows. Talk with Alcott Americans have silently passed Debatable Lands. Writers besetting puerilities. Germany excels in culture we lack repose. The good Indian. Excel- lent conveniences of European cities. American inde- pendent Thought. Niebuhr on Oracles and on Christs rank. Family events. Effect of Alcott. Englands discreditable attitude and lost opportunity. The High School. Orchard rule. The cheating fund for travel. Affirmative. Visitors at Concord. Agassizs excellenceincounsel histheory . . . . . 32-60 September walk with Channing Natures speed. Sac- rifice, a verse. America fighting for humanity Na- poleons prophecy. Plea to Carlyle. Visits. Beauty as a reward. Harness ofcity conventionality unspoiled men. We lack enthusiasm. Nature gives wealth blessings of obscure youth Aunt Mary on old-time Christians. The war appoints the generals. Talent in reading. Thoughts retrospective value. Faithful Wordsworth comes to his fame. Drawings in Punch. Holmes on lectures.Natures prodigality cost of experience, of love we have more material than we can work up. Meeting with Fowler, a Tennessee Union-man. Historic expressions. Visit at Naushon John Murray Forbes, his admirable qualities his talk with Goldwin Smith on danger to England of her ma- rine policy. The dire, b tv6v, in eloquence Otis...