_October 27._--Fringed gentians,--I found the last, probably, that will be seen this year, growing on the margin of the brook. * * * * * 1842.--Some man of powerful character to command a person, morally subjected to him, to perform some act. The commanding person suddenly to die; and, for all the rest of his life, the subjected one continues to perform that act. * * * * * "Solomon dies during the building of the temple, but his body remains leaning on a staff, and overlooking the workmen, as if it were alive." * * * * * A tri-weekly paper, to be called the Tertian Ague. * * * * * Subject for a picture,--Satan's reappearance in Pandemonium, shining out from a mist, with "shape star-bright." * * * * * Five points of Theology,--Five Points at New York. * * * * * It seems a greater pity that an accomplished worker with the hand should perish prematurely, than a person of great intellect; because intellectual arts may be cultivated in the next world, but not physical ones. * * * * * To trace out the influence of a frightful and disgraceful crime in debasing and destroying a character naturally high and noble, the guilty person being alone conscious of the crime. * * * * * A man, virtuous in his general conduct, but committing habitually some monstrous crime,--as murder,--and doing this without the sense of guilt, but with a peaceful conscience,--habit, probably, reconciling him to it; but something (for instance, discovery) occurs to make him sensible of his enormity. His horror then. * * * * * The strangeness, if they could be foreseen and forethought, of events which do not seem so strange after they have happened. As, for instance, to muse over a child's cradle, and foresee all the persons in different parts of the world with whom he would have relations. * * * * * A man to swallow a small snake,--and it to be a symbol of a cherished sin. * * * * * Questions as to unsettled points of history, and mysteries of nature, to be asked of a mesmerized person. * * * * *