Author of "Verses" and "Bits of Travel."

Contents.

• The Inhumanities of Parents--Corporal Punishment
• The Inhumanities of Parents--Needless Denials
• The Inhumanities of Parents--Rudeness
• Breaking the Will
• The Reign of Archelaus
• The Awkward Age
• A Day with a Courteous Mother
• Children in Nova Scotia
• The Republic of the Family
• The Ready-to-Halts
• The Descendants of Nabal
• "Boys not allowed"
• Half an Hour in a Railway Station
• A Genius for Affection
• Rainy Days
• Friends of the Prisoners
• A Companion for the Winter
• Choice of Colors
• The Apostle of Beauty
• English Lodging-Houses
• Wet the Clay
• The King's Friend
• Learning to speak
• Private Tyrants
• Margin
• The Fine Art of Smiling
• Death-bed Repentance
• The Correlation of Moral Forces
• A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner
• Children's Parties
• After-supper Talk
• Hysteria in Literature
• Jog Trot
• The Joyless American
• Spiritual Teething
• Glass Houses
• The Old-Clothes Monger in Journalism
• The Country Landlord's Side
• The Good Staff of Pleasure
• Wanted--a Home