First harvests

WORKS OF FICTION
BY F. J. STIMSON ( J. S. of Dale )
FIRST HARVESTS
An Episode in the Life of Mrs. Levison Gower
A Satire Without a Moral
BY F. J. STIMSON (J. S. OF DALE)
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1888
Copyright, 1888, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS TROW’S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK.
I have called this book a satire; yet have sought within that key an overtone of hope and faith. Our early generation of writers could be all optimists: for they wrote of virgin soil. But since their day has passed, our country’s first-fruits were garnered. With these we have to deal.
F. J. S.
Boston, November 6, 1888.
FIRST HARVESTS.