V. UNDER THE SHADOW OF BYRON’S HELMET Echoes of the Greek 40 Revolution.—The Enchanted Garden.—“Green Peace” an International Resort.—Political Exiles. Teach Us Foreign Languages and the Love of Freedom.—Louis Kossuth.
VI. NOTED VISITORS AT “GREEN PEACE” Charles Sumner and His 50 Brother.—Edwin P. Whipple—James T. Fields.—Doctor Kane.—Rev. Thomas Starr King.—Prof. Cornelius C. Felton.—Arthur Hugh Clough.—Frederika Bremer.—Laura Bridgman.
VII. YOUNG AMERICA GOES TO SCHOOL Our Schools and 68 Teachers.—The South Boston Omnibus.—A Grand School Sleigh-ride.—Memories of the Adams Family.—A Picnic on the State House Steps.
VIII. THE AGASSIZES AND THEIR SCHOOL Professor and Mrs. Louis 79 Agassiz.—Prof. Alexander Agassiz.—Papanti’s Dancing-school.—I Invent Fancy Dances.—We Swim, Skate, and Ride on Horseback.—Boston’s Purple-glass Windows.
IX. EDWIN BOOTH AND CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN Why They Did Not Act 92 My Mother’s Play, “Hippolytus.”—A Bundle of Old Playbills.—Letters from Edwin and Mary Booth.—Mrs. Frances Ann Kemble.—Statue of Horace Mann.—My Father Introduces Written Examinations into the Public Schools, amid Angry Protests from the Masters.
X. LAWTON’S VALLEY, OUR SUMMER HOME The Beautiful 110 Valley.—The Crawford Children.—“Yeller’s Day.”—“Vaucluse” and the Hazards.—The Midshipmen Visit Us.—Dances on Board the Frigate _Constitution_.—Parties in the Valley.—George Bancroft.—A Party at His House.—Rev. Charles T. Brooks.
XI. ANTI-SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR MEMORIES Deep Interest of My 128 Parents in the Anti-Slavery Movement and in the Civil War.—We Learn the Evil of Compromise.—A Trip to Kansas.—Manners on the Mississippi Steamboats.—Fort Sumter Is Attacked.—Mother’s Poems of the War.—Father’s Work on the Sanitary Commission.—How the Flag Was Treated at Newport.—We Ride in the “Jeff Davis.” Knitting and Scraping Lint.—Sewing-circles.—Fairs for the Army and the Navy.—“The Boatswain’s Whistle.”—Visiting the Camp at Readville.—Governor N. P. Banks.—Governor John A. Andrew.—Parade of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
XII. WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS The Ancient and Honorable 141 Artillery.—Death of Little Sammy.—Assassination of Lincoln.—My Father Serves on the Freedmen’s Commission.
XIII. THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR How We 155 Dressed and Danced in the ’Sixties.—War Prices.—Mrs. Jared Sparks.—Visit of the Russian Fleet.—The Brain Club.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.—Ralph Waldo Emerson.—William R. Alger.—William M. Hunt.—“Mamma’s Owls,” William and Henry James.—A Clever Group of Society Women.—A Historic Nose-pulling.