Nine o’clock, Friday evening. The excitement increases. Barnegat Light is in sight. Half the cabin passengers are up all night, indulging in unprofitable talk and weariness, merely because we are so near home. Four o’clock, and the faithful engine stops, the cable rattles overboard, and everything is still. We are at anchor off Staten Island. By the first laggard streak of winter’s dawn I am on the hurricane-deck. I am curious to see my native North. It comes by degrees out of the cold blue fog on either side of the bay. Miles of houses, spotted with patches of bushy-looking woodland--bushy in appearance to a Californian, whose oaks grow large and widely apart from each other, as in an English park. There comes a shrieking and groaning and bellowing of steam-whistles from the monster city nine miles away. Soon we weigh anchor and move up toward it. Tugs dart fiercely about, or laboriously puff with heavilyladen vessels in tow. Stately ocean steamers surge past, outward bound. We become a mere fragment of the mass of floating life. We near the foot of Canal street. There is a great deal of shouting and bawling and counter-shouting and counter-bawling, with expectant faces on the wharf, and recognitions from shore to steamer and from steamer to shore. The young woman who flirted so ardently with the young Californian turns out to be married, and that business-looking, middle-aged man on the pier is her husband. Well, I never! Why, you are slow, my friend, says inward reflection. You are not versed in the customs of the East. At last the gangway plank is flung out. We walk on shore. It is now eighteen years since that little floating world society cemented by a month’s association scattered forever from each other’s sight at the Canal street pier. * * * * * THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY Is a =MONTHLY= system of publication, showing how results may be obtained in all business and art, through the force of thought and silent power of mind. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: <sc>$1.50 PER YEAR; SINGLE COPIES, 15 CENTS.</sc> VOLUME I. _No._ 1--_You travel when you sleep._ “ 2--_Where you travel when you sleep._ “ 3--_The process of re-embodiment._ “ 4--_Re-embodiment universal in nature._ “ 5--_The art of forgetting._ “ 6--_How thoughts are born._ “ 7--_The law of success._ “ 8--_How to keep your strength._ “ 9--_Consider the lilies._ “ 10--_Art of study._ “ 11--_Profit and loss in associates._ “ 12--_The slavery of fear._ “ 13--_What are spiritual gifts._ VOLUME II.