CONTENTS.[Dinner-Parties]9[The Bride's New House]16[The Happy Lot of a Sexton]25[Literary Aspirants]28[What shall we do for the Little Children on Sunday?]34[My House in the Country]37[Why Wear Mourning?]41["Delightful Men"]44[Choosing Presents]53[A Bid for an Editorship]58[A Sermon to Plymouth Pulpit]61[Female Clerks]64[Blue Monday]67[The Fly in the Ointment]75[Woman's Millennium]81[English Notions about Women]87[Rag-tag and Bob-tail Fashions]94[Some Hints to Editors]98[Help for the Helpful]105[Women on the Platform]111[Poverty and Independence]117[The History of the Late War]121[Two Kinds of Women]125[Sunday Morning]129[Justice for Clergymen]137[The Old Maid of the Period]146[The Nurse of the Period]149[A Look Backward]152[Varieties of Human Nature]157["A Good Mistress always makes a Good Servant"]167[The Mother-Touch]173[Some Gossip about Myself]178[Hospitality]188[Woman and Her Watch]191["My Doctor"]194[A Woman at a Lecture]197[Can't be Suited]200[Autograph-Hunters]203[The Etiquette of Hotel Piazzas]206[Old Stockbridge in Massachusetts]209[Sunday in the Village]216[Sick in the Village]220[Men and their Clothes]223[Notes from Plymouth Rock]228[No Beaux Anywhere]233[Daniel Webster's Home]240[A Trip to Richmond]243[The Coming Landlord]253[Out on the End of Cape Ann]257[Country Diet]269[From my Seat on the Rocks]274[Wishings and Longings]278[A Transition State]281[What Mary thought of John]284[Travel-Spoiled Americans]290[Life's Illusions]293[Jack Simpkins]296[Biding the Lord's Time]300[One Sort of Fool]303[The First Baby]306