We have quite enough of deep philosophy at Williams College, and I confess I was disappointed in this trend of the talk.

But what a talk it was! Melville is transformed from a Marquesan to a gypsy student, the gypsy element still remaining strong within him.

And this contradiction gives him the air of one who has suffered from opposition, both literary and social.

With his liberal views, he is apparently considered by the good people of Pittsfield as little better than a cannibal or a 'beach-comber.' His attitude seemed to me something like that of Ishmael; but perhaps I judged hastily.

I managed to draw him out very freely on everything but the Marquesas Islands, and when I left him he was in full tide of discourse on all things sacred and profane.