These essays have appeared, during the last ten years, in The Contributor's Club of The Atlantic Monthly, The Chap-Book, The Independent, The Catholic World, and The Providence Journal. An Open Letter to the Moon, and On Teaching One's Grandmother to Suck Eggs, are reprinted, by permission, from [Goose-Quill Papers], Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1885.
Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.