n quotes a saying about the
Fullers, that "Their only peculiarity was that they said openly about
themselves the good and bad things which we commonly suppress about
ourselves and express only about other people." The common way is not
more sincere, but it is pleasanter.

In 1840, the second year of Margaret's Conversations, appeared the
first number of _The Dial_, a literary magazine of limited
circulation, but destined to a kind of post-mortem immortality. In
1841, the Community of Brook Farm was established. An interesting
account of both enterprises, and of Margaret's part in them, is given
by Mr. Emerson in a paper found in the tenth volume of his collected
Works. In the preliminary discussions leading to both enterprises,
Margaret participated. Like Mr. Emerson, she did not have unqualified
faith in the Brook Farm experiment and did not join the community,
though she had many friends in it, was a frequent visitor, and had the
honor to sit for the portrait of "Zenobia" in Mr. Hawthorne's
Blithedale Romance.

Her part in _The Dial_ was more prominent. She edited the first two
volumes of the magazine, being then succeeded by Mr. Emerson, and she
wrote for it a paper entitled "Man vs. Men: Woman vs. Women,"
afterward expanded and published in a volume under the title, "Woman
in the Nineteenth Century," her second and most famous book. Her first
book, "Summer on the Lakes," is an account of a charming journey, with
the family of James Freeman Clarke and others, by steamboat and farm
wagon, as far as the Mississippi. It was a voyage of discovery, and
her account has permanent historic interest.

In 1844, Margaret accepted an advantageous offer to become literary
editor of the _New York Tribune_, a position which she was admirably
qualified to fill. A collection of papers from _The Tribune_, under
the title of "Literature and Art," made up her third book, published
in 1846, on the eve of her departure for Europe.

During her residence in New York, she became greatly interested in
philanthropies, especially in the care of prisoners of her own sex.
She visited the jails and prisons, interviewed the inmates, gave them
"conversations," and wrought upon them the same miracle which she had
so often performed in refined drawing-rooms. "If she had been born to
large fortune," said Mr. Greeley, "a house of refuge for all female
outcasts desiring to return to the ways of virtue would have been one
of her most cherished and fi