Copyright, 1892,
CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO.
(All rights reserved.)
PRESS OF
Jenkins & McCowan,
NEW YORK.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Our Friends, The Books | [11] |
| Trials of a Publisher | [28] |
| The Oppression of Notes | [45] |
| Conversation in Novels | [59] |
| A Short Defence of Villains | [70] |
| A By-Way in Fiction | [87] |
| Comedy of the Custom House | [104] |
| Mr. Wilde’s Intentions | [121] |
| Humors of Gastronomy | [129] |
| Children in Fiction | [144] |
| Three Famous Old Maids | [157] |
| The Charm of the Familiar | [171] |
| Old World Pets | [182] |
| Battle of the Babies | [195] |
| The Novel of Incident | [207] |