To cover up the embers that still burn

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
BOSTON

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE

First Impression, October, 1922
Second Impression, December, 1922

Printed in the
United States of America


CONTENTS

I.Preliminary[3]
II.The House and the Hostess[6]
III.Dr. Holmes, the Friend and Neighbor[17]
IV.Concord and Cambridge Visitors[53]
V.With Dickens in America[135]
VI.Stage Folk and Others[196]
VII.Sarah Orne Jewett[281]