CONCORD DAYS. [Illustration] CONCORD DAYS BY A. BRONSON ALCOTT "Cheerful and various thoughts not always bound To counsel, nor in deep ideas drowned." JAMES HOWEL. BOSTON ROBERTS BROTHERS 1872. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY A. BRONSON ALCOTT, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. _Stereotyped and Printed by_ ALFRED MUDGE & SON, BOSTON. [Illustration] CONTENTS. APRIL. PAGE DIARIES 3 MY HOUSE 4 OUTLOOK 10 THOREAU 11 SELF-PRIVACY 21 SUNDAY LECTURES 23 EMERSON 25 RECREATION 41 GENEALOGIES 45 SCHOLARSHIP 49 MAY. RURAL AFFAIRS 59 PASTORALS 65 CHANNING'S "NEW ENGLAND" 66 CONVERSATION 72 MARGARET FULLER 77 CRASHAWS'S IDEAL WOMAN 79 CHILDHOOD 83 PYTHAGORAS 88 CONVERSATION WITH CHILDREN 92 PLUTARCH'S LETTER TO HIS WIFE 108 JUNE. BERRIES 117 CHANNING'S "BLUEBERRY SWAMP" 121 LETTERS 123 BOOKS 133 CRASHAW'S VERSES ADDRESSED TO A LADY 140 SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY 143 PLOTINUS 148 IDEAL CULTURE 151 GOETHE 157 CARLYLE 160 JULY. INDEPENDENCE DAY 167 PHILLIPS 172 GREELEY 176 AGE OF IRON AND BRONZE 178 CONVERSATION ON ENTHUSIASM 183 SWEDENBORG 187 HAWTHORNE 193 LANDOR 197 SLEEP AND DREAMS 201 GENESIS AND LAPSE 205 AUGUST.