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How nature shows her gladness-June and Junefulness-When a nose is a

good thing-Is it an organ for the beautiful-The glories of October-

Nature's picture gallery-Art and its limitations-Mrs. Oldham asks

two very great questions,

Professor Clare-The Doctor's talk about the starry heavens-Addison and

Shakspeare-Word-painting and other painting-Where the universe

ends and how it is filled-Mrs. Oldham's two questions are not an-

More about the stars and the earth-Pantheism-Whether any thing can

become so small as to become nothing and yet remain something-Time

and space-Mrs. Oldham's two great questions again, and the way they

The Doctor preaches to his daughter-Quotes Wordsworth and gets into

heroics-Also he fulfils a scriptural duty-Remarkable street-sweepers

and knife-grinders-Comforting doctrine concerning shirt-making and

stocking mending,

Wherein the Doctor says pshaw to something advanced by the author, and

advances his own notions-Comfort and swill not the highest felicity

for rational beings-The world needs martyrs, but Crooke Racket not

the right type,

Lot's house in Sodom-Jonah in New York-The Doctor villifies univer-

sal suffrage and an elective judiciary in a very shocking way; and

makes the most unsupposable suppositions-An extraordinary ticket

for city offices,

A short chapter on judge-making-Not amusing; and not so likely to be

interesting to those who need, as to those who do not need, the instruc-

tion it contains,

Something on universal suffrage and sacred rights-Wherein is seen how

Professor Clare and Pelham Brief differ from each other, and the Doc-

tor from them both,

Hard and dry, perhaps-But going to the bottom of a subject immensely

important to be understood in this country,

Very short, perhaps unpalatable-Yet, if true, ought not to give offence to

Also short-Not without interest for some minds-But likely to displease

two sorts of readers and to shock one of them,

The Doctor at a woman's rights convention-What he did not say there,

but would have said if he had said any thing,

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, .

Some of the Doctor's notions about conversation-His practice is another

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The Doctor says some things that sound very strange to Mrs. Garland-

Bad Christians and good heathen-Mr. Grim-The necessity for a good

Professor Clare gets back to Japan, and the Doctor is unduly severe upon

cant and the gospel of cotton fields,

Mr. Stockjob Pile-Alderman Gubbins-Hardhead Bullion-Bob Slender

-It takes something inside to make something—which is declared at

the end of the chapter,

About Caspar Tuberose and his wife-With other things touching the con-

stitution of a gentleman,

The Doctor's horse-What and why about him,

CHAPTER XXXIII.

All-hang-together-ness,

L'Envoy, perhaps-Containing something natural-And also something su-

pernatural from which nothing came except some natural remarks of

DOCTOR OLDHAM.

CHAPTER I.

THE LIBRARY TABLE AND MRS. OLDHAM'S OPINION OF IT. -IDEAIMAGES; THE CAUTION NECESSARY IN REDUCING THEM TO FEET AND INCHES.-DRAWERS MADE TO PREVENT HUSBAND AND WIFE A MORE LOVING HARMONY.-SHATTERED IDEALS.-HOW MRS. OLDHAM WAS LIKE SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S DOG AND DOCTOR OLDHAM NOT LIKE SIR ISAAC. -THE WISDOM OF NONSENSE.

PULLING TOGETHER; YET SERVING то

THE family were all gathered around the large library table, as usual of an evening. I said the large library table; Mrs. Oldham thought it too large, and besides she disliked the shape of it. It was a square-cornered oblong table, and she would have preferred it to be oval. The Doctor, I know, secretly agreed with her; at least he came to be of the same way of thinking after she had expressed her opinion a thing he was very apt to do. But

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