TABLE OF CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

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]