Our Homes. Their Cares and Duties, Joys and Sorrows

300, 4 pp. Embossed leather, page ridges gilt, engraved plates. CONTENTS: The Poor Man's Fairies; Three New Year' Eves; The Power of Kindness; "Our Pet;" Thanksgiving; Home; Praise among the Married; The Art of Living Easy; Oh, Sing to Me Softly, My Sister; An Evening at Home; Two Years Old; A Thimble-Full of Romance; My Mother; Music in Families; Do You Know What Your Children Read!; The Progress of Greediness; The Cradle Away Up In the Garret; The Heavenly Shepherd; He Never Kept His Wife Waiting; My Own Fireside; Be Patient with the Little Ones; The Invalid Wife; "The Old Folks; Obedience, How Taught to Children; Our Homes; Mrs. Winterford and Her Servants; The Spare Bed-Room; Duty to Parents; The Two Partings; "One Set Apart;" Cousin Hettie and Her Mother-In-Law; Musings and Memories; Filial Piety; Godfather Vivian; The Story of the Broken Flower-Pot; Is Work Degrading?; The Children of the Lord; Girls' Heads Against Vest Patterns; Faithful Love--A Family Picture; The Way My Mither Did It; Deaths of Little Children; A Home for My Mother; A Child's First Letter; Little Molly; Farewell to a Sister; Heart-Shadows; The Dumb Child; A Scene from Real Life; The First Baby; Home Lights and Home Shadows; The Worth of a Doll; Farmers' Sons; The Spirit-Maiden of Rhineland; Passing Away; Hints for Husbands; Buy Only What You Want; An Angel by the Hearth; A Word to Young Husbands; A Wife's Sermon, or Hints to Husbands; My Wife; A True Wife; The Dying Child.