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##  MALBONE

##  OLDPORT DAYS

##  ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT

##  BLACK REBELLION FIVE SLAVE REVOLTS

##  WOMEN AND THE ALPHABET

##  HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

THE ENCHIRIDION, by Epictitus

##  A BOOK OF AMERICAN EXPLORERS

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MALBONE

AN OLDPORT ROMANCE.

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

CONTENTS

| MALBONE.
| PRELUDE.
I | AN ARRIVAL
II | PLACE AUX DAMES!
III | A DRIVE ON THE AVENUE
IV | AUNT JANE DEFINES HER POSITION
V | A MULTIVALVE HEART
VI | “SOME LOVER’S CLEAR DAY.”
VII | AN INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
VIII | TALKING IT OVER
IX | DANGEROUS WAYS
X | REMONSTRANCES
XI | DESCENSUS AVERNI
XII | A NEW ENGAGEMENT
XIII | DREAMING DREAMS
XIV | THE NEMESIS OF PASSION
XV | ACROSS THE BAY
XVI | ON THE STAIRS
XVII | DISCOVERY
XVIII | HOPE’S VIGIL
XIX | DE PROFUNDIS
XX | AUNT JANE TO THE RESCUE
XXI | A STORM
XXII | OUT OF THE DEPTHS
XXIII | REQUIESCAT

OLDPORT DAYS

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

CONTENTS

OLDPORT IN WINTER

OLDPORT WHARVES

THE HAUNTED WINDOW

A DRIFT-WOOD FIRE

AN ARTIST'S CREATION

IN A WHERRY

MADAM DELIA'S EXPECTATIONS

SUNSHINE AND PETRARCH

A SHADOW

FOOTPATHS

ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Originally published 1869

CONTENTS

Chapter 1.   Introductory

Chapter 2.   Camp Diary

Chapter 3.   Up the St. Mary's

Chapter 4.   Up the St. John's

Chapter 5.   Out on Picket

Chapter 6.   A Night in the Water

Chapter 7.   Up the Edisto

Chapter 8.   The Baby of the Regiment

Chapter 9.   Negro Spirituals

Chapter 10.   Life at Camp Shaw

Chapter 11.   Florida Again?

Chapter 12.     The Negro as a Soldier

Chapter 13.   Conclusion

APPENDIX

Appendix A

Appendix B The First Black Soldiers

Appendix C General Saxton's Instructions

Appendix D The Struggle for Pay

Appendix E Farewell Address of Lt. Col. Trowbridge

BLACK REBELLION: FIVE SLAVE REVOLTS

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA

THE MAROONS OF SURINAM.

GABRIEL'S DEFEAT

DENMARK VESEY

NAT TURNER'S INSURRECTION

APPENDIX OF AUTHORITIES

WOMEN AND THE ALPHABET

A Series of Essays

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

1881

CONTENTS

I. OUGHT WOMEN TO LEARN THE ALPHABET?

II. PHYSIOLOGY

Too Much Natural History

Darwin, Huxley, and Buckle

The Spirit of Small Tyranny

The Noble Sex

The Truth about our Grandmothers

The Physique of American Women

The Limitations of Sex

III. TEMPERAMENT

The Invisible Lady

Sacred Obscurity

Virtues in Common

Individual Differences

Angelic Superiority

Vicarious Honors

The Gospel of Humiliation

Celery and Cherubs

The Need of Cavalry

The Reason Firm, the Temperate Will

Allures to Brighter Worlds, and leads the Way

IV. THE HOME

Wanted--Homes

The Origin of Civilization

The Low-Water Mark

Obey

Woman in the Chrysalis

Two and Two

A Model Household

A Safeguard for the Family

Women as Economists

Greater Includes Less

A Copartnership

One Responsible Head

Asking for Money

Womanhood and Motherhood

A German Point of View

Childless Women

The Prevention of Cruelty to Mothers

V. SOCIETY

Foam and Current

In Society

The Battle of the Cards

Some Working Women

The Empire of Manners

Girlsterousness

Are Women Natural Aristocrats?

Mrs. Blank's Daughters

The European Plan

Featherses

VI. STUDY AND WORK

Experiments

Intellectual Cinderellas

Cupid and Psychology

Self-Supporting Wives

Thorough

Literary Aspirants

The Career of Letters

Talking and Taking

How to Speak in Public

VII. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT

We the People

The Use of the Declaration of Independence

Some Old-Fashioned Principles

Founded on a Rock

The Good of the Governed

Ruling at Second Hand

VIII. SUFFRAGE

Drawing the Line

For Self-Protection

Womanly Statesmanship

Too Much Prediction

First-Class Carriages

Education via Suffrage

Follow Your Leaders

How to Make Women Understand Politics

Inferior to Men, and near to Angels

IX. OBJECTIONS TO SUFFRAGE

The Facts of Sex

How will it Result?

I have all the Rights I want

Sense Enough to Vote

An Infelicitous Epithet

The Rob Roy Theory

The Votes of Non Combatants

Manners repeal Laws

Dangerous Voters

How Women will Legislate

Individuals vs. Classes

Defeats before Victories

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

BY Thomas Wentworth Higginson

CONTENTS

Chap. |  | Page
I. | Longfellow as a Classic | 1
II. | Birth, Childhood, and Youth | 11
III. | First Flights in Authorship | 21
IV. | Literature as a Pursuit | 37
V. | First Visit to Europe | 45
VI. | Marriage and Life at Brunswick | 59
VII. | The Corner Stone laid | 67
VIII. | Appointment at Harvard and Second Visit to Europe | 81
IX. | Illness and Death of Mrs. Longfellow | 107
X. | Craigie House | 116
XI. | Hyperion and the Reaction from It | 124
XII. | Voices of the Night | 137
XIII. | Third Visit to Europe | 149
XIV. | Anti-Slavery Poems and Second Marriage | 163
XV. | Academic Life in Cambridge | 176
XVI. | Literary Life in Cambridge | 188
XVII. | Resignation of Professorship-to Death of Mrs. Longfellow | 202
XVIII. | Birds of Passage | 213
XIX. | Last Trip to Europe | 219
XX. | Dante | 225
vi XXI. | The Loftier Strain: Christus | 236
XXII. | Westminster Abbey | 248
XXIII. | Longfellow as a Poet | 258
XXIV. | Longfellow as a Man | 278
| Appendix | 297

A BOOK OF AMERICAN EXPLORERS

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. | The Legends of the Northmen (985?1008)
| 1. | How the Northmen discovered North America
| 2. | The Voyage of Leif the Lucky
| 3. | Leif finds Vines, and goes back to Greenland
| 4. | Thorvald, Leif's Brother, goes to Vinland
| 5. | Karlsefni's Adventures
II. | Columbus and his Companions (1492?1503)
| 1. | The First Letter from Columbus
| 2. | The Second Voyage of Columbus
| 3. | Columbus reaches the Mainland
| 4. | Columbus at the Mouth of the Orinoco
| 5. | Columbus thinks himself near the Earthly Paradise
| 6. | Daring Deed of Diego Mendez
| 7. | How Diego Mendez got Food for Columbus
| 8. | How Diego Mendez saved Columbus
| 9. | Appeal of Columbus in his Old Age
III. | Cabot and Verrazzano (1497?1524)
| 1. | First News of John and Sebastian Cabot
| 2. | Sebastian Cabot's Voyage
| 3. | Verrazzano's Letter to the King
IV. | The Strange Voyage of Cabeza de Vaca (1528?1533)
| 1. | The Strange Voyage
| 2. | Cabeza de Vaca saved by Indians
| 3. | Cabeza de Vaca's Captivity
| 4. | The Indians of the Gulf of Mexico
| 5. | Cabeza de Vaca's Escape
V. | The French in Canada (1534?1536)
| 1. | Cartier's Visit to Bay of Chaleur
| 2. | Cartier sets up a Cross
| 3. | Cartier ascends the St. Lawrence
| 4. | How the Indians tried to frighten Cartier
| 5. | How Cartier reached Hochelaga, now Montreal
| 6. | The Festivities at Hochelaga
VI. | Adventures of De Soto (1538?1542)
| 1. | How De Soto set sail
| 2. | De Soto attacks the Indians, and finds a Fellow Countryman
| 3. | The Story of John Ortiz
| 4. | De Soto discovers the Mississippi
| 5. | De Soto's Vain Attempts to reach the Sea
| 6. | Death and Burial of De Soto
VII. | The French in Florida (1562?1565)
| 1. | Jean Ribaut in Florida
| 2. | Alone in the New World
| 3. | Laudonnière's Search for the Colonists
| 4. | Capture of Fort Caroline by the Spaniards
VIII. | Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583)
IX. | The Lost Colonies of Virginia (1584?1590)
| 1. | The First Voyage to Virginia
| 2. | Visit to an Indian Princess
| 3. | Adventures of the First Virginia Colony
| 4. | The Second English Colony in Virginia
| 5. | Search for the Lost Colony
X. | Unsuccessful New England Settlements (1602?1607)
| 1. | Gosnold's Fort at Cuttyhunk
| 2. | Captain Waymouth explores the Penobscot
| 3. | The Popham Colony on the Kennebec
| 4. | Captain Gilbert's Adventure with Indians
XI. | Captain John Smith (1606?1631)
| 1. | The Virginia Colony
| 2. | The Colonists
| 3. | Captain Smith's Capture by Indians
| 4. | Captain Smith and Pocahontas
| 5. | King Powhatan
| 6. | A Virginia Princess
| 7. | An Indian Dance in Virginia
| 8. | Indian Children
| 9. | "The Planter's Pleasure and Profit"
| 10. | The Glories of Fishing
| 11. | Visit of Pocahontas to London
| 12. | First Buildings of the Virginia Colonists
| 13. | Captain Smith's Recollections
XII. | Champlain on the War-Path (1609)
XIII. | Henry Hudson and the New Netherlands (1609?1626)
| 1. | Discovery of the Hudson River
| 2. | Indian Traditions of Hudson's Arrival
| 3. | Hudson's Last Voyage, and how he was set adrift in the Ice
| 4. | Dutch Settlement of the New Netherlands
XIV. | The Pilgrims at Plymouth (1620?1621)
| 1. | Sailing of the Pilgrims
| 2. | Miles Standish at Cape Cod
| 3. | The First Encounter
| 4. | The Landing on Plymouth Rock
| 5. | Plymouth Village founded
| 6. | "Welcome, Englishmen!"
XV. | The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629?1631)
| 1. | Voyage of the Massachusetts Colonists
| 2. | The Puritans in Salem Harbor
| 3. | The Four Elements in New England
| 4. | A Sea-Adventure of the Puritans
| 5. | Governor Winthrop's Night out of Doors
| 6. | The Privations of the Puritans

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. | Columbus at the Mouth of the Orinoco
2. | A Norse Ship
3. | Esquimau Boat
4. | Dutch Man-of-War
5. | Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella
6. | Fleet of Columbus
7. | Ship of the Fifteenth Century
8. | Portrait of Verrazzano
9. | Verrazzano in Newport Harbor
10. | Indians making Canoes
11. | Cabeza de Vaca building the Boat
12. | Portrait of Jacques Cartier
13. | Cartier raising a Cross on the St. Charles River
14. | Indians trying to frighten Cartier
15. | Portrait of De Soto
16. | Landing of De Soto
17. | Burial of De Soto
18. | Indians in Canoe
19. | Ribaut's Pillar decorated by Indians
20. | Fort Caroline
21. | Portrait of Menendez
22. | Indian Village in Virginia
23. | Baptism of First Child in Virginia
24. | The Explorers looking at the Tree
25. | Palisaded Town
26. | Gosnold's Fort
27. | Captain Weymouth sailing up the Penobscot
28. | Portrait of James I.
29. | Old Print of Smith's Capture
30. | Facsimile Illustration of Pocahontas saving the Life of Smith
31. | Indian Dance
32. | Cod-Fishing
33. | Portrait of Pocahontas
34. | Portrait of Champlain
35. | Champlain on the War-Path
36. | Hudson in the Highlands
37. | Indians on Board "The Half-Moon"
38. | Settlement on the Hudson River
39. | Delph's Haven
40. | "The Mayflower" in Provincetown
41. | Portrait of Governor Winslow
42. | Sword of Standish
43. | Sunday on Clark's Island
44. | Landing of Mary Chilton
45. | Meeting of Captain Standish and Massasoit
46. | Governor Carver's Chair
47. | Portrait of Francis Higginson
48. | Governor Endicott
49. | First Church in Salem
50. | Old Planter's House at Salem
51. | Portrait of Governor Winthrop
52. | Famine among the Pilgrims