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literary and the most cultivated society in New York,
which assembled once a week in her drawing-room. I
had admired also her inoffensive wit, her childlike
gayety and good humor, and especially liked a certain
expression in her eye, as though it were seeking for
something, "something a long, long way off," even,
in her apparently dissipated, worldly life; in a word,
I liked her, took a deep interest in her--now I loved
her. She is one of the birds of Paradise which skim
over the world without soiling their wings with its
dust. Anne Lynch, with her individuality and her
position in society, is one of the peculiar figures
of the New World.
A lecture was delivered last Sunday evening,
in the same hall where I had heard Channing, on
Christian Socialism, by Mr. Henry James, a wealthy
and, it is said, a good man. His doctrine was one
which recognizes no right except that of involuntary
attraction, no law of duty but the artist’s worship of
beauty, no greatness except that of power, no God but
that of the pantheist, everywhere and yet nowhere--a
doctrine which has its preachers even in Sweden. After
the conclusion of the discourse, given extempore, with
enthusiasm and flashing vivacity, Channing arose and
said that if the doctrine which we had just heard were
Christian Socialism, then he did not agree with it;
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