CONTENTS.

PAGE
PREFACE[3]
IN MEMORIAM[5]
I.THE CASE OF SUMMERFIELD[13]
II.THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE[34]
III.THE DESERTED SCHOOLHOUSE[37]
IV.FOR AN ALBUM[50]
V.PHASES IN THE LIFE OF JOHN POLLEXFEN[52]
VI.THE LOVE-KNOT[94]
VII.THE AZTEC PRINCESS[95]
VIII.THE MOTHER'S EPISTLE[154]
IX.LEGENDS OF LAKE BIGLER[156]
X.ROSENTHAL'S ELAINE[171]
XI.THE TELESCOPIC EYE[174]
XII.THE EMERALD ISLE[190]
XIII.THE EARTH'S HOT CENTER[199]
XIV.WILDEY'S DREAM[212]
XV.WHITHERWARD[218]
XVI.OUR WEDDING DAY[229]
XVII.THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW[231]
XVIII.A PAIR OF MYTHS[233]
XIX.THE LAST OF HIS RACE[247]
XX.THE TWO GEORGES[249]
XXI.MASONRY[260]
XXII.POLLOCK'S EUTHANASIA[262]
XXIII.SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY[264]
XXIV.THE ENROBING OF LIBERTY[276]
XXV.A CAKE OF SOAP[279]
XXVI.THE SUMMERFIELD CASE[280]
XXVII.THE AVITOR[291]
XXVIII.LOST AND FOUND[293]