The Heart of the World: or, Home and Its Wide Work

xii, 742 pp. Full leather with gilt page ridges and marbled endpapers. Plates engraved by Illman Brothers. CONTENTS: Home: Man and His Career - Home and Its Sanctity - Home a Civilizer - Home Discipline - The Household - Practical Wisdom - The Hopeful Look - Pennies - Good News; The Young Folks at Home: The Little Ones - The Children - The Young People - The Way to Marriage - The Court of Marriage - Companionship in Marriage - Self-Possession - Habits - Boyhood of Great Men - Where There Is a Will There Is a Way; Society: The Basis of Society - Friendship - The American Government - Education of Women - Money - The Farm - The Shop - The School - Examples of Great Men - Heroes and Heroism - The Example of Notable Women; The Drink Mania: The Extent of the Drink Habit - The Anglo-Saxon and His Drink - The Great Awakening - Temperance Laws; The Higher Life: Preachers and Preaching - Voices to the Bereaved - Conclusion; Gems of Poetry.