NEW YORK
Duffield & Company
MCMVI

Copyrght, 1906, by
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
Published, September, 1906

THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK

NOTICE
NO ADMITTANCE
EXCEPT ON
PLEASURE

Contents

PAGE
[Publishers’ Preface]7
[Eve]13
[Lady Godiva]19
[Miss Marie Corelli]27
[Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy]35
[Mrs. Grundy]41
[Mrs. Christopher Columbus]49
[Dame Rumor]57
[The Cry of the Children]63
[The Cry of the Elders]71
[An Epithalamium]79
[The Self-Made Father to His Ready-Made Son]85
[The Author to His Hostess]91
[On the Decline of Gentility Among the Young]97
[“Lochinvar”]103
[Abbreviation’s Artful Aid]111
[Author’s Aftword]117