AMERICAN THUMB-PRINTS
In shorter form “The New England Woman” appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, and under other title and form “Up-to-Date Misogyny” and “Plagiarizing Humors of Benjamin Franklin” in The Bookman, which periodicals have courteously allowed republication
AMERICAN
THUMB-PRINTS
METTLE OF OUR
MEN AND WOMEN
BY
KATE STEPHENS
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1905
By J. B. Lippincott Company
Published April, 1905
Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.
IN MOST LOVING MEMORY OF
MY FATHER
NELSON TIMOTHY STEPHENS
WHOSE RARE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN AND OF LAW
WHOSE SENSITIVENESS TO JUSTICE
HUMAN KINDLINESS
AND FINE DISDAIN FOR SELF-ADVERTISEMENT
ARE STILL CHERISHED BY THE NOBLE FOLK
AMONG WHOM HE SPENT
THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE
AT WHOSE INSTANCE IN GREAT MEASURE
AND UPON WHOSE ADVICE
THE LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY
SKETCHED IN THIS BOOK
WAS IN 1878
FOUNDED