_Russell Hilliard Loines_ 281
Paradise _George Birdseye_ 281
The Friar of Orders Gray _John O'Keefe_ 282
Of a Certain Man _Sir John Harrington_ 282
Clean Clara _W. B. Rands_ 283
Christmas Chimes _Unknown_ 284
The Ruling Passion _Alexander Pope_ 285
The Pope and the Net _Robert Browning_ 286
The Actor _John Wolcot_ 287
The Lost Spectacles _Unknown_ 287
That Texan Cattle Man _Joaquin Miller_ 288
Fable _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 290
Hoch! Der Kaiser _Rodney Blake_ 291
What Mr. Robinson Thinks _James Russell Lowell_ 292
The Candidate's Creed _James Russell Lowell_ 294
The Razor Seller _John Wolcot_ 297
The Devil's Walk on Earth _Robert Southey_ 298
Father Molloy _Samuel Lover_ 307
The Owl-Critic _James Thomas Fields_ 309
What Will We Do? _Robert J. Burdette_ 311
Life in Laconics _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 311
On Knowing When to Stop _L. J. Bridgman_ 312
Rev. Gabe Tucker's Remarks _Unknown_ 312
Thursday _Frederic E. Weatherly_ 313
Sky-Making _Mortimer Collins_ 314
The Positivists _Mortimer Collins_ 315
Martial in London _Mortimer Collins_ 316
The Splendid Shilling _John Philips_ 316
After Horace _A. D. Godley_ 320
Of a Precise Tailor _Sir John Harrington_ 322
Money _Jehan du Pontalais_ 323
Boston Nursery Rhymes _Rev. Joseph Cook_ 324
Kentucky Philosophy _Harrison Robertson_ 325
John Grumlie _Allan Cunningham_ 326
A Song of Impossibilit