Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven: The Literature of Many Ages and Many Climes on the Three Dearest Names to Mortals Given.

vii, [13], 33-524 pp. Olive cloth, gilt and silver titles and decorations, engraved illustrations throughout. A collection of writings - a mix of poetry and prose - by numerous authors on the subjects of motherhood, home, and heaven. Notable contributors include: George McDonald; Dinah Maria Mulock; George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]; Mary Mapes Dodge; Thomas Campbell; Thomas Carlyle; John Quincy Adams; William Cullen Bryant; Charles Dickens; John Greenleaf Whittier; John Ruskin; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Alexander Pope; Thomas Moore; William Wordsworth; Robert Burns; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Martin Luther; etc.