[In Mr. Cabot's Memoir (vol. I, pp. 171– 175) are given four interesting letters written at this crisis of Mr. Emerson's life; one by him to his brother William telling him of the schemes he was then revolving for the new life before him, among them one for a new magazine in which his brothers should join,-"Give me my household gods against the world, William, Edward and Charles." (William had been giving literary lectures in New York.) Two letters follow from Charles to his Aunt Mary, telling of the illness of Waldo (he was called so in the family), and his decision to go to Europe, and of his (Charles's) growing disappointment as I go Sunday after Sunday and hear ordinary preachers, and remember what a torch of kindling eloquence has been snuffed out in such an insignificant fashion." Then follows a letter from Waldo telling William of his resolve to go to Europe instead of visiting Edward in Porto Rico.] 1832] READING 541 AUTHORS OR BOOKS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO IN JOURNAL FOR 1832 Zoroaster, Zend Avesta, apud Histoire de l'Académie des Inscriptions; Pythagoras; Aristotle; Quintus Fabius Pictor, apud Cicero (?); Cicero; Horace; St. Paul; Plutarch, Archimedes, Pericles; Seneca ; Leonardo da Vinci, apud Brewster's Life of Newton; Montaigne, Essays; Shakspeare; Grotius; Milton, Comus, Prose Works; George Herbert; George Fox, apud Sewell's History of the Quakers, also Life of; Bishop Patrick, Parable of a Pilgrim; Fénelon, Fontenelle; Saurin; Fielding, Proverbs; Lucas, On Happiness, On Holiness; Joseph Black; Bentham; Patrick Henry; Moses Mendelssohn, Phado; Herschel, William and John; Jung Stilling, Autobiography; Goethe, apud Carlyle; Schiller; John Flaxman, Beauty, Sculpture, apud Rees' Encyclopedia; Laplace; Schlegel, Guesses at Truth; Mal thus; Burns, Poems; Mackintosh, Ethical Philosophy; Abernethy, Lectures; Jeffrey; Hegel; Pestalozzi, apud Biber; Wordsworth; Landor, Imaginary Conversations; Moore, Poems; Daniell, Meteorological Essays; Mary Somerville, Mechanism of the Heavens ; Parry, Voyages; Audubon; Cousin; Channing, Sermon on War; Carlyle, Cornlaw Rhymes, Sartor Resartus, Life of Schiller; Edinburgh Review; New Jerusalem Maga zine. END OF VOLUME II |