University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Page | ||
| Preface | [5] | |
| Members of the Class | [17] | |
| I. | General Mythological Statement | [25] |
| II. | General Statement Continued. R. W. E. Present[1] | [40] |
| III. | Story from Novalis. Apollo | [60] |
| IV. | Minerva. The Serpent | [77] |
| V. | Venus and Psyche. R. W. E. Present | [95] |
| VI. | Cupid and Psyche. Margaret, and Elisabeth Hoar | [106] |
| VII. | Pluto and Tartarus | [123] |
| VIII. | Mercury and Orpheus. R. W. E. Present | [135] |
| IX. | Hermes and Orpheus | [147] |
| X. | Bacchus and the Demigods | [156] |
PREFACE.
In 1839, Margaret Fuller, delicate in health and much overtaxed, consented to gratify many who loved her by opening in Boston a series of “Conversations for Women.” In a Circular quoted by Emerson, she says to Mrs. Sophia Ripley:—
“Could a circle be assembled in earnest, desirous to answer the questions, ‘What were we born to do?’ and ‘How shall we do it?’ I should think the undertaking a noble one.”