This book contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the original work. Less prosperous in fortune than at an earlier day there had been reason to expect, and animating his solitude, as he read eagerly and intelligently, with the traditions of the past, already he lived much in the realm of the imagination, and became betimes, as he was to continue all through life, something of an idealist, constructing the world for himself in great measure from within, by the exercise of meditative power. Contents: religion of Numa; white nights; change of air; tree of knowledge; golden book; euphuism; pagan end; animula vagula; new cyrenaicism; on the way; most religious city in the world; divinity that doth hedge a king; mistress and mother of palaces; manly amusement.