MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR

CONTENTS

AGNES REPPLIER
A Plea for Humor

MARIETTA HOLLEY
An Unmarried Female

FITZHUGH LUDLOW
Selections from a Brace of Boys

ROBERT JONES BURDETTE
Rheumatism Movement Cure

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
An Aphorism and a Lecture

JOSHUA S. MORRIS
The Harp of a Thousand Strings

SEBA SMITH
My First Visit to Portland

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
The Mosquito

JOHN CARVER
Country Burial-places

DANFORTH MARBLE
The Hoosier and the Salt-pile

ANNE BACHE
The Quilting

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
A Fragment

Domestic Happiness

CHARLES F. BROWNE ("Artemus Ward")
One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters

On "Forts"

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Without and Within

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Street Scenes in Washington

ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
Mis' Smith

JAMES JEFFREY ROOHE
A Boston Lullaby

CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE
Irish Astronomy

SAMUEL MINTURN PEOK
Bessie Brown, M. D.

ROBERT C. SANDS
A Monody

CAROLYN WELLS
The Poster Girl

JAMES GARDNER SANDERSON
The Conundrum of the Golf Links

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
The Minister's Wooing

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Mrs. Johnson

ANONYMOUS
The Trout, the Cat and the Fox The British Matron