Thirdly, I offer them my late fugitive pieces, which have often been requested, and which, with the other contents of this volume, I hope will cement still stronger our friendly relations.
FANNY FERN.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| A Business Man’s Home; or, a Story for Husbands, | [9] |
| Visiting and Visitors, | [43] |
| Our First Nurse, | [47] |
| The Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land, | [52] |
| To Literary Aspirants, | [53] |
| Summer Travel, | [56] |
| A Gentle Hint, | [59] |
| A Story for Old Husbands with Young Wives, | [59] |
| Breakfast at the Paxes, | [65] |
| Girls’ Boarding-Schools, | [68] |
| Closet Meditations, | [71] |
| Feminine View of Napoleon as a Husband, | [73] |
| “First Pure,” | [79] |
| Holiday Thoughts, | [82] |
| A Headache, | [85] |
| Has a Mother a Right to her Children? | [87] |
| “And ye shall call the Sabbath a Delight,” | [89] |
| “Come on, Macduff,” | [93] |
| Look Aloft, | [95] |
| Knickerbocker and Tri-Mountain, | [98] |
| The Boston Woman, | [100] |
| The New York Male, | [101] |
| The Boston Male, | [102] |
| My Old Inkstand and I, | [103] |
| The Soul and the Stomach, | [106] |
| Awe-ful Thoughts, | [107] |
| A Word to Parents and Teachers, | [108] |
| Lady Doctors, | [111] |
| The Cherub in the Omnibus, | [112] |
| Fanny Ford, | [114] |
| Moral Molasses, | [210] |
| A Word to Shopkeepers, | [212] |
| A Much-Needed Kind of Minister’s Wife, | [215] |
| Parent and Child, | [217] |
| Last Bachelor Hours of Tom Pax, | [220] |
| Tom Pax’s Conjugal Soliloquy, | [222] |
| Tea and Darning-Needles for Two, | [226] |
| A House without a Baby, | [232] |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 1, | [233] |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 2, | [237] |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 3, | [242] |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 4, | [246] |
| In the Dumps, | [249] |
| Peeps from under a Parasol, | [252] |
| The Confession Box, | [263] |
| A Word to Parents and Teachers, | [266] |
| Breakfast, | [268] |
| Greenwood and Mount Auburn, | [269] |
| Getting Up the Wrong Way, | [272] |
| A Hot Day, | [277] |
| Funeral Notes, | [278] |
| The “Favorite” Child, | [282] |
| A Question and its Answer, | [283] |
| Winter, | [284] |
| A Gauntlet for the Men, | [286] |
| Soliloquy of a Literary Housekeeper, | [289] |
| A Breakfast-Table Reverie, | [290] |
| A Glance at a Chameleon Subject, | [295] |
| Facts for Unjust Critics, | [297] |
| Try Again, | [301] |
| Fair Play, | [302] |
| To Gentlemen, | [305] |
| To the Ladies, | [307] |
| Matrimonial Advertisements, | [309] |
| A Sable Subject, | [310] |
| New York, | [313] |
| Airy Costumes, | [315] |
| A Peep at the Opera, | [317] |
| Hard Times, | [318] |
| Counter Irritation, | [321] |
| Sunday in Gotham, | [324] |
| Anniversary Time, | [327] |
| Wayside Words, | [330] |
| Charlotte Bronte, | [332] |
FRESH LEAVES.