Copyrighted in 1875, by F.B. Patterson.

Copyright, 1886,
By White, Stokes, & Allen.

CONTENTS.

page
[Retrospection]1
[A Rosebud in Lent]4
[A Reformer]5
[In the Record Room, Surrogate's Office]6
[De Lunatico]8
[Pro Patria et Gloria]11
[After the German]15
[An Idyl of the Period]17
[Chivalrie]22
[A Piece of Advice]24
[Zwei Könige auf Orkadal]27
[A Song]28
[Making New Year's Calls]30
[Jack and Me]34
[Les Enfants Perdus]37
[Chinese Lanterns]40
[Thoughts on the Commandments]43
[Marriage à la Mode. A Trilogy]45
[The "Stay-at-Home's" Plaint]58
[The "Stay-at-Home's" Pæan]62
[Eight Hours]65
[Sleeping Beauty]68
[Easter Morning]71
[A Legend of St. Valentine]75
[Frost-Bitten]79
[A Song]81
[Old Photographs]83
["Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné"]85
[Christmas Greens]88
[Lake Mahopac—Saturday Night]91
[Matinal Musings]95
[A Romance of the Sawdust]99
[Pyrotechnic Polyglot]105
[Fishing]108
[Nocturne]111
[Auto-da-Fé]113
[An Afterthought]117
[Reductio ad Absurdum]120
[The Mothers of the Sirens]122
[Per Aspera ad Astra]124
[The Language of Love]126

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RETROSPECTION.