“Some live in airy fantasies, And in the clouds do move, And some do burn with inward flames– But few know how to love.” ANON. BALLAD CHAPTER I. ON one of those clear, cold days of December, which so frequently occur in our climate, two very young women were walking on the fashionable promenade of […]

I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again: Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note, So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me, On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee. MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM {Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Act III, Scene 1, […]

The Seneca is remarkable for its “Wandering Jew,” and the “Lake Gun.” The first is a tree so balanced that when its roots are clear of the bottom it floats with its broken and pointed trunk a few feet above the surface of the water, driving before the winds, or following in the course of […]

THE increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown […]