Preface iii Diamond Cove--By S. B. Beckett 9 Our Own Country--By James Brooks 13 The Cruise of The Dart--By S. B. Beckett 21 To M--, on her Birth-Day,--By William Cutter 59 Religious Obligation in Rulers--By John W. Chickering 60 A New-England Winter Scene--By William Cutter 74 Loch Katrine--By N. H. Carter 78 Worship--By Asa Cummings 82 The Valley of Silence--By William Cutter 86 Descriptions of The Divine Being--By Gershom F. Cox 88 The French Revolution--By Charles S. Daveis 98 Mrs. Sykes--From the papers of Dr. Tonic, recently brought to light--By Nathaniel Deering 102 Old and Young--By James Furbish 115 Autumnal Days--By P. H. Greenleaf 119 The Plague--By Charles P. Ilsley 123 'Oh, This is not My Home'--By Charles P. Ilsley 125 The Village Prize--By Joseph Ingraham 126 Indifference to Study--By George W. Light 134 The Village of Auteuil--By Henry W. Longfellow 138 The Past and The New Year--By Prentiss Mellen 145 The Ruin of a Night--By Grenville Mellen 150 Courtship--By William L. McClintock 152 Venetian Moonlight--By Frederick Mellen 158 Ballooning--By I. McLellan, Jr. 160 Ode--By Grenville Mellen 166 The Boy's Mountain Song--By I. McLellan, Jr. 167 The Unchangeable Jew--By John Neal 168 A War-Song of The Revolution--By John Neal 183 Musings on Music--By James F. Otis 185 Sin estimated by the Light of Heaven--By Edward Payson 194 The Way of the Soul--By L. S. P. 200 Fragments of An Address on Music--By Edward Payson 206 The Blush--By Mrs. Elizabeth Smith 212 The Widowed Bride--By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens 216 Jack Downing's Visit to Portland--By Seba Smith 227 The Deserted Wife--By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens 272 Portland as it Was--By William Willis 231 The Cherokee's Threat--By N. P. Willis 239 Grecian and Roman Eloquence--By Ashur Ware 256 Religion--By Jason Whitman 269 THE PORTLAND SKETCH BOOK. DIAMOND COVE.