January 1869 Issue [Editor’s Easy Chair] Editor’s easy chair Adjust Share This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) Communal living Intellectual life Nathaniel Hawthorne New England Ralph Waldo s Transcendentalism (New England) Transcendentalists (New England) Utopias Adjust Share