"CHICAGO LIBRARIES

FOR SALE BY J. MILLER M'KIM, NO. 31 NORTH FIFTH STREET,

MERRIHEW & THOMPSON, PRINTERS.

1846.

THE LOVERS OF THAT TRUTH AND BEAUTY WHICH SHALL EXALT MEN TO A HIGHER LIFE,

THIS VOLUME,

—ALTHOUGH WRITTEN BY THOSE WHO, BECAUSE THEY WERE HUMAN, OFTEN ERRED; AND EVEN

IN THE PIECES HEREIN COLLECTED DID NOT APPROVE THEMSELVES PERFECT,—

IS DEDICATED,

IN THE HOPE THAT ITS GOOD MAY LIVE FOR EVER, AND ITS EVIL DIE WITH IT.

19

The Prophet Unveiled,

19

20

The Star-Gazer, by Christopher Pearse Cranch,

A London Lyric, by " Barry Cornwall,"

Blankets, (to be read on a cold night,) by “

Humphrey,"

True Rest,

21

23

The Mourners, by Caroline E. S. Norton,

My Mother, by "Old Humphrey,"

The Bridge of Sighs, by Thomas Hood,

Evening Song of the Weary, by Felicia D. Hemans, 21

How Jesus was Received, by Theodore Parker,

A Christian Slave, by John G. Whittier,

Song Writing, by James Russell Lowell,

Capital Punishment, by Lydia Maria Child,

Moments, by Richard Monckton Milnes,

A Christian Home, by R. W. Evans,

Demagogue Arts, by Lord Brougham,

An Evening Song, by Francis K. Butler,

Lilias Grieve, by Professor Wilson,

The Cry of the Children, by Elizabeth B. Barrett,

Instinct of Childhood, by John Neal,

My Friend,

The Factory Girls of Lowell, by J. G. Whittier,

The Labourer, by William D. Gallagher,

Reform, by Thomas L. Harris,

31

The Slave Market at Washington, by John G.

Whittier,

33 To the Unsatisfied, by Harriet Winslow,

35 The Happy Life, by Sir Henry Wotton,

37 Life's Pilgrimage, by Robert Nicoll,

39 The Happy Home,

40 Childhood,

22

27

67

31 Dietetic Reform, by James Sellers, Jr.,

31 Thoughts in a Library, by Anne C. Lynch,

32 Letter from C. C. Burleigh,

70

73

73

74

74

75

77

77

78

78

80

80

80

81

The Martyr of the Arena, by Epes Sargent,

48

The Anniversary of Lovejoy's Martyrdom, by

Maria Weston Chapman,

The Street, by James Russell Lowell,

48

"For Behold the Kingdom of God is within you,"

Ephemera, by Charles West Thompson,

83

The Christian Virgin to her Apostate Lover,
Children, by Parke Benjamin,

44 Heart's-Ease,

45 Faith, by Francis Ann Butler,

45 The Last Wish,