A happy half-century, and other essays

by Agnes Repplier

CONTENTS

A Happy Half-Century	[ 1]
The Perils of Immortality	[ 16]
When Lalla Rookh was Young	[ 32]
The Correspondent	[ 51]
The Novelist	[ 73]
On the Slopes of Parnassus	[ 94]
The Literary Lady	[ 116]
The Child	[ 138]
The Educator	[ 155]
The Pietist	[ 177]
The Accursed Annual	[ 196]
Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother	[ 217]
The Album Amicorum	[ 234]

“A Happy Half-Century,” “The Perils of Immortality,” and “The Correspondent” appeared first in Harper’s Magazine, “Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother” in Harper’s Bazar, and “On the Slopes of Parnassus” in the Atlantic Monthly; they are here reprinted by permission of the publishers of those magazines.