," E. R. Sill; "The Owl-Critic," "The Alarmed Skipper,"
James T. Fields; "My Summer in a Garden," "Plumbers," "How I Killed
a Bear," C. D. Warner; "Little Breeches," John Hay; "The Stammering
Wife," "Coquette," "My Familiar," "Early Rising," J. G. Saxe; "The
Diamond Wedding," E. C. Stedman; "Melons," "Society Upon the
Stanislaus," "The Heathen Chinee," "To the Pliocene Skull," Bret
Harte; "The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things," K. K. C. Walker;
"Palabras Grandiosas," Bayard Taylor; "Mrs. Johnson," William Dean
Howells; "A Plea for Humor," Agnes Repplier; "The Minister's
Wooing," Harriet Beecher Stowe.

In addition, the Editor desires to make his personal acknowledgments to
the following authors: F. P. Dunne, Mary Mapes Dodge, Gelett Burgess, R.
K. Munkittrick, E. W. Townsend, F. D. Sherman.

For such small paragraphs, anecdotes and witticisms as have been used in
these volumes, acknowledgment is hereby made to the following newspapers
and periodicals:

_Chicago Record_, _Boston Globe_, _Texas Siftings_, _New Orleans Times
Democrat_, _Providence Journal_, _New York Evening Sun_, _Atlanta
Constitution_, _Macon Telegraph_, _New Haven Register_, _Chicago Times_,
_Analostan Magazine_, _Harper's Bazaar_, _Florida Citizen_, _Saturday
Evening Post_, _Chicago Times Herald_, _Washington Post_, _Cleveland
Plain Dealer_,_ _New York Tribune_, _Chicago Tribune_, _Pittsburg
Bulletin_, _Philadelphia Ledger_, _Youth's Companion_, _Harper's
Magazine_, _Duluth Evening Herald_, _Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal_, _Washington Times_, _Rochester Budget_, _Bangor News_, _Boston
Herald_, _Pittsburg Dispatch_, _Christian Advocate_, _Troy Times_,
_Boston Beacon_, _New Haven News_, _New York Herald_, _Philadelphia
Call_, _Philadelphia News_, _Erie Dispatch_, _Town Topics_, _Buffalo
Courier_, _Life_, _San Francisco Wave_, _Boston Home Journal_, _Puck_,
_Washington Hatchet_, _Detroit Free Press_, _Babyhood_, _Philadelphia
Press_, _Judge_, _New York Sun_, _Minneapolis Journal_, _San Francisco
Argonaut_, _St. Louis Sunday Globe_, _Atlanta Constitution_, _Buffalo
Courier_, _New York Weekly_, _Starlight Messenger_ (St Peter, Minn.).

CONTENTS

_VOLUME I_

PAGE

WASHINGTON IRVING

Wouter Van Twiller 1
Wilhelmus Kieft