NEW YORK:

LEAVITT AND ALLEN.

Illustrations.

THE ROBIN,[FRONTISPIECE].
ENGRAVED TITLE,[BEFORE TITLE].
WOULD-BE-GENTEEL LADY,[18]
MY DOG,[75]
MARY WALLACE,[102]
ON THE HUDSON,[193]

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
The Mother’s Jewel. By the Author of “The Brothers”[5]
Sweet Stream[10]
Stanzas. By Miss E. M. Allison[12]
The Would-be-Genteel Lady. By Mrs. Charles Sedgwick[15]
At Home. By Mrs. Anna Bache[62]
To the Whip-poor-will[73]
The Child’s best Friend[75]
Napoleon and the Iron Crown. By Grenville Mellen[76]
The Barlow Knife. By Robert Jonathan[81]
Gertrude. By Miss A. D. Woodbridge[97]
Sodus Bay[99]
Mary Wallace: a Juvenile story[102]
The Genoese Emigrant. By Miss E. M. Allison[158]
Sonnet: on a Sleeping Infant[168]
Child of my Heart[169]
May Morning[170]
My First Born: the hour of her birth[172]
Condy O’Neal[173]
On the Hudson. By Miss E. M. Allison[193]
Charades[206]
The English Flower[207]
The Young Mother[209]
The Isle of Rest[215]
The Italian Lover[218]
The Fate of the Hornet[228]
A Vision[232]
“I’ll think of thee, Love”[234]
Cottage Life[236]
The Guardian Watcher[238]
Interrogatories[239]
Gnadenhutten[241]

THE MOTHER’S JEWEL.

BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE BROTHERS.”

“These are my gems,”[[1]] the Roman mother cried,

Her bright lip wreathed in smiles of sunny pride,