TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE MISADVENTURES OF CASSIDY. By Edward S. Moffat. [3]
MARY BAKER G. EDDY. By Georgine Milmine. [16]
IN CHARGE OF TRUSTY. By Lucy Pratt. [32]
FIRST DAYS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION. By Carl Schurz. [39]
The First Crop Without Slaves. [39]
Restless Foot-loose Negroes. [40]
The Freedmen's Bureau. [41]
Pickles and Patriotism. [42]
The South's Hopeless Poverty. [42]
Johnson's Haste for Reconstruction. [44]
Arming the Young Men of the South. [46]
The President Defends Southern Militia. [48]
Criticism and Personal Discomfort. [48]
The End of an Aristocracy. [49]
An Ungracious Reception. [50]
Why the President Reversed his Policy. [50]
Congress and General Grant's Report. [51]
THE FLOWER FACTORY. By Florence Wilkinson. [52]
THE SILLY ASS. By James Barnes. [53]
WAR ON THE TIGER. By W. G. Fitz-gerald. [58]
THE RADICAL JUDGE. By Anita Fitch. [65]
POVERTY AND DISCONTENT IN RUSSIA. By George Kennan. [74]
"THE HEART KNOWETH." By Charlotte Wilson. [81]
IN THE DARK HOUR. By Perceval Gibbon. [82]
"OLIVIA" and "FAUST" AT THE LYCEUM. By Ellen Terry. [88]
THE LIE DIRECT. By Caroline Duer. [99]
THE WAYFARERS. By Mary Stewart Cutting. [102]