Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. A lady of sorrow -- Proposals for the speedy extinction of evil and misery -- Bumble, bumbledom, bumbleism -- Per contra: the poet, high art, genius -- Indolence -- A national reformer in the dog-days -- An evening with Spenser -- Open secret societies -- Sayings of Sigvat -- A word for Xantippe -- Sympathy -- Liberty and necessity -- A walk abroad -- The fair of St. Sylvester -- A note on Forster's life of Swift -- A note on George Meredith -- On the worth of metaphysical systems -- A few words on the system of Spinoza -- In our forest of the past