own_ 91
Transcendentalism _Unknown_ 92
A "Caudal" Lecture _William Sawyer_ 92
Salad _Sydney Smith_ 93
Nemesis _J. W. Foley_ 94
"Mona Lisa" _John Kendrick Bangs_ 95
The Siege of Djklxprwbz _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 96
Rural Bliss _Anthony C. Deane_ 97
An Old Bachelor _Tudor Jenks_ 98
Song _J. R. Planche_ 99
The Quest of the Purple Cow _Hilda Johnson_ 100
St. Patrick of Ireland, My Dear! _William Maginn_ 101
The Irish Schoolmaster _James A. Sidey_ 103
Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle _Cormac O'Leary_ 105
The Origin of Ireland _Unknown_ 106
As to the Weather _Unknown_ 107
The Twins _Henry S. Leigh_ 108

II: THE ETERNAL FEMININE

He and She _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 109
The Kiss _Tom Masson_ 109
The Courtin' _James Russell Lowell_ 110
Hiram Hover _Bayard Taylor_ 113
Blow Me Eyes! _Wallace Irwin_ 115
First Love _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 116
What Is a Woman Like? _Unknown_ 118
Mis' Smith _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 119
Triolet _Paul T. Gilbert_ 120
Bessie Brown, M.D. _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 120
A Sketch from the Life _Arthur Guiterman_ 121
Minguillo's Kiss _Unknown_ 122
A Kiss in the Rain _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 123
The Love-Knot _Nora Perry_ 124
Over the Way _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 125
Chorus of Women _Aristophanes_ 126
The Widow Malone _Charles