Contents.
| PAGE | |
| Authors at Work | [1] |
| The Earnings of Authors | [43] |
| Declined with Thanks | [67] |
| Epigrams on Authors | [76] |
| Poetical Graces | [90] |
| Poetry on Panes | [94] |
| English Folk-Rhymes | [100] |
| The Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards | [110] |
| Toasts and Toasting | [120] |
| Curious American Old-Time Gleanings | [131] |
| The Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet | [143] |
| A Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe | [149] |
| A Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter | [160] |
| A Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper | [167] |
| The Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips | [176] |
| A Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller | [186] |
| The Cottage Countess | [199] |
| The Compiler of “Old Moore’s Almanac”: Henry Andrews | [206] |
| James Nayler, the Mad Quaker, who claimed to be the Messiah | [213] |
| A Biographical Romance: Swan’s Strange Story | [222] |
| Short Letters | [228] |
| Index | [237] |
LITERARY BYWAYS.