70 YEARS OF DISCIPLINE. [1843,

a review twenty-five or thirty printed pages of Conversations on the Gospels, Record of a School, and Spiritual Culture, with rather copious extracts. However, it is a good sub ject, and Lane says it gives him satisfaction. I will give it a faithful reading directly. [These were Alcott s publications, reviewed by Lane.] And now I come to the little end of the horn ; for myself, I have brought along the Minor Greek Poets, and will mine there for a scrap or two, at least. As for Etzler, I don t remember any " rude and snappish speech " that you made, and if you did it must have been longer than anything I had written ; however, here is the book still, and I will try. Perhaps I have some few scraps in my Journal which you may choose to print. The translation of the ^Eschylus I should like very well to continue anon, if it should be worth the while. As for poetry, I have not remembered to write any for some time ; it has quite slipped my mind ; but some times I think I hear the mutterings of the thun der. Don t you remember that last summer we heard a low, tremulous sound in the woods and over the hills, and thought it was partridges or rocks, and it proved to be thunder gone down the river ? But sometimes it was over Wayland way, and at last burst over our heads. So we 11

not despair by reason of the drought. You see