Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart

by Donald Grant Mitchell

SECOND REVERIE

	By a City Grate	[47]
I	Sea-Coal	[57]
II	Anthracite	[77]

THIRD REVERIE

	Over His Cigar	[99]
I	Lighted With a Coal	[105]
II	With a Wisp of Paper	[121]
III	Lighted With a Match	[137]

FOURTH REVERIE

	Morning, Noon and Evening	[155]
I	Morning—Which Is the Past	[165]
	School Days	[177]
	The Sea	[191]
	The Father-Lan	[201]
	A Roman Girl	[213]
	The Appenines	[225]
	Enrica	[235]
II	Noon—Which Is the Present	[245]
	Early Friends	[249]
	School Revisited	[259]
	College	[267]
	The Packet of Bella	[275]
III	Evening—Which Is the Future	[287]
	Carry	[293]
	The Letter	[303]
	New Travel	[311]
	Home	[327]

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PREFACE

This book is neither more nor less than it pretends to be; it is a collection of those floating reveries which have, from time to time, drifted across my brain. I never yet met with a bachelor who had not his share of just such floating visions; and the only difference between us lies in the fact that I have tossed them from me in the shape of a book.