“She took up her verse where William had interrupted.”


EMMY LOU

HER BOOK & HEART

BY

GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN

AND ILLUSTRATED BY

CHARLES LOUIS HINTON

“My Book and Heart

Must Never Part.”

New England Primer

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers — New York


Copyright, 1901, 1902, by S. S. McClure Co.
Copyright, 1902, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Fifteenth Impression


To My Sister
THE AUNT CORDELIA
of these stories, this
book is
affectionately inscribed


CONTENTS

The Right Promethean Fire[1]
A Little Feminine Casabianca[29]
Hare-And-Tortoise or the Bliss of Ignorance[49]
“I Sing of Honor and the Faithful Heart”[81]
The Play’s the Thing[113]
The Shadow of a Tragedy[135]
All the Winds of Doctrine[165]
The Confines of Consistency[193]
A Ballad in Print o’ Life[225]
Venus or Minerva?[247]