Copyright, 1913

By Dana Estes & Company

Thanks are due the editors of the Woman's Home Companion for permission to use the articles in book form which first appeared in that magazine.

Caroline French Benton.

CONTENTS

I.[Introduction]
II.[The Modern Drama]
III.[Our Own Country]
IV.[The Home]
V.[Myths and Folk-Lore]
VI.[A Trip Through the British Isles]
VII.[The Opera]
VIII.[The World's Great Painters]
IX.[Ten American Women Writers]
X.[Town Improvement]
XI.[Holland]
XII.[The Homelike House]
XIII.[Nature]
XIV.[The Great English Novelists]
XV.[English Novelists of To-day]
XVI.[The Gilded Age of Louis XIV]
XVII.[Forestry]
XVIII.[Shakespeare]
XIX.[The Employments of Women]
XX.[Important Movements of Our Times]
XXI.[The Study of Childhood]
XXII.[Miscellaneous Programs]