_Frederic E. Weatherly_ 170
The Belle of the Ball _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 171
The Retort _George Pope Morris_ 174
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk _Alexander Rodger_ 174
The Chronicle: A Ballad _Abraham Cowley_ 176
Buxom Joan _William Congreve_ 179
Oh, My Geraldine _F. C. Burnand_ 180
The Parterre _E. H. Palmer_ 180
How to Ask and Have _Samuel Lover_ 181
Sally in Our Alley _Henry Carey_ 182
False Love and True Logic _Laman Blanchard_ 183
Pet's Punishment _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 184
Ad Chloen, M.A. _Mortimer Collins_ 184
Chloe, M.A. _Mortimer Collins_ 185
The Fair Millinger _Fred W. Loring_ 186
Two Fishers _Unknown_ 188
Maud _Henry S. Leigh_ 188
Are Women Fair? _Francis Davison_ 189
The Plaidie _Charles Sibley_ 190
Feminine Arithmetic _Charles Graham Halpine_ 191
Lord Guy _George F. Warren_ 191
Sary "Fixes Up" Things _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 192
The Constant Cannibal Maiden _Wallace Irwin_ 194
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles _Frances M. Whitcher_ 195
Under the Mistletoe _George Francis Shults_ 196
The Broken Pitcher _William E. Aytoun_ 196
Gifts Returned _Walter Savage Landor_ 198

III: LOVE AND COURTSHIP

Noureddin, the Son of the Shah _Clinton Scollard_ 199
The Usual Way _Frederic E. Weatherly_ 200
The Way to Arcady _H. C. Bunner_ 201
My Love and My Heart _Henry S. Leigh_ 204
Quite by Chance _Frederick Langbridge_ 205
The Nun _Leigh Hunt_ 206
The Chemist to His Love