THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A New England Farm house. A BOOK.
BYN. H. CHAMBERLAIN.
NEW YORK: CARLETON, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY.
MDCCCLXV.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by N. H. CHAMBERLAIN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut.
TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,
Poet-Laureate in the loves of many peoples: whose verse is the voice of the tenderness and sadness of hearts throughout the ages, and whose life hath been the gentle echo of his verse: who himself, taught by solemn things, hath spoke to others of those solemn mysteries of life which are to Faith but shadows of the Divinity: to the master of the Mediæval lore and to the Author of a lore that illustrates a new republic: to the teacher of Beautiful Arts, well-remembered of many in out University who have since attained to the sacred heraldry of martyrdom for Fatherland in our latest struggle for human privilege, and of others who must henceforth cherish, both for dead and living, the memories of sunnier days: to the man above the poet and to the poet among men, this book is (by permission) respectfully inscribed.
page: iv-v (Table of Contents) [View Page iv-v (Table of Contents) ]CONTENTS.
- I. THE SEA. 7
- II. SANDOWNE. 10
- III. A HERO. 22
- IV. ABOUT HOUSES. 27
- V. GARRETS. 36
- VI. SUNDRIES. 48
- VII. THE LAWRENCES. 60
- VIII. HOW TWO YOUNG PERSONS READ ÆSCHYLUS. 67
- IX. THE MAY SEARCH. 81
- X. MYSTERIES. 106
- XI. MEMORIES. 126
- XII. THE PARSONAGE. 129
- XIII. AFTER THE SEARCH. 142
- XIV. SUNDAY IN SANDOWNE. 149
- XV. AFTER MEETING. 162
- XVI. FRENCHMAN'S HEAD. 172
- XVII. A KITCHEN. 187
- XVIII. TROUT-FISHING. 196
- XIX. CHILDHOOD. 221
- XX. FACEM, NON PACEM. 230
- XXI. CHILD LOST. 245
- XXII. ONLY ABOUT A CHILD. 254
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- XXIII. ASPHODEL. 265
- XXIV. UNDER THE ELMS. 274
- XXV. AIR CASTLES. 279
- XXVI. THE HANDWRITING. 284
- XXVII. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 290
- XXVIII. LIBERTY AND LOVE vs. LIBERTY. 296
- XXIX. DEATH IN LIFE. 303
- XXX. CRANBERRIES. 307
- XXXI. TREEMAN'S COTTAGE. 317
- XXXII. CORN HUSKING. 321
- XXXIII. DEAD LEAVES. 327
- XXXIV. FROST AGAIN. 333
- XXXV. CONQUEST. 337
- XXXVI. THE POOR-HOUSE. 341
- XXXVII. LACTANTIUS'S Y. 354
- XXXVIII. THE SPRING AGAIN. 362