Billings")

Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats 77

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Yankee Recruit 81
What Mr. Robinson Thinks 170

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

My Summer in a Garden 90

FREDERICK S. COZZENS

Living in the Country 111

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND

Hans Breitmann's Party 127

FRANCES M. WHICHER

Tim Crane and the Widow 129

JOHN GODFREY SAXE

The Stammering Wife 135

ANDREW V. KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix")

He Came to Pay 139

MARIETTA HOLLEY

A Pleasure Exertion 144

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

The Diamond Wedding 162

MISCELLANEOUS

Why He Left 23
A Boy's Essay on Girls 38
Identified 47
One Better 48
A Rendition 57
A Cause for Thanks 73
Crowded 103
The Wedding Journey 105
A Case of Conscience 126
He Rose to the Occasion 136
Polite 137
Lost, Strayed or Stolen 138
A Gentle Complaint 141
Music by the Choir 173

WASHINGTON IRVING

WOUTER VAN TWILLER

It was in the year of our Lord 1629 that Mynheer Wouter Van Twiller was
appointed Governor of the province of Nieuw Nederlandts, under the
commission and control of their High Mightinesses the Lords States
General of the United Netherlands, and the privileged West India
Company.

This renowned