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BRYANT IN HIS LIBRARY AT CEPARMERE

Reverse: Poem, “The Dead Master,” by Richard Henry Stoddard. LONGFELLOW's HOME IN CAMBRIDGE

Reverse: Poem, “In Memoriam," by Austin Dobson. BIRTHPLACE OF John HOWARD PAYNE

Reverse: Poem, "Inscription on Monument." WHITTIER'S HOME IN AMESBURY

Reverse: Poem, "Whittier," by Louise A. McGaffey. Lowell's HOME IN CAMBRIDGE

Reverse: Poem, "Lowell,” by Sarah K. Bolton. HOME OF ALFRED (LORD) TENNYSON

Reverse: Poem, "The Poet,” by Aubrey De Vere. EMERSON'S HOME IN CONCORD

Reverse: Poem, "Concord,” by Susan Coolidge. THE OLD MANSE IN CONCORD (Hawthorne and Emerson)

Reverse: Poem, "Hawthorne," by Edmund Clarence Stedman.

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

WITH POEMS BY RECENT AUTHORS.

Childhood and Youth, A Dutch LULLABY

Eugene Field. To front page 80 Portrait of Author. Photograph by STEIN, Milwaukee, Wis. THE WITCH IN THE GLASS

Sarah M. B. Piall

81 From Photograph of little GERMAINE REJANE by AIMÉ DUPONI. Wings,

Mary Louise Ritter

106 “ The Boat and the Birds." Drawn W William FULLER CURTIS. THE FIRST BLUEBIRD

James Whi
mb Riley

.. 107 Portrait of Author. Photograph by Patton, Indianapolis, Ind.

Love.

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PERFUME.

. Edmund W Gosse “Latakia, Attar, and Old Wine."

Drawn by HARRY FENN.
AFFAIRE D'AMOUR

Margaretla Wade Deland
Portrait of Author. Photograph in Boston.
MY SWEETHEART's Face

Dr. John Allan Wyeth
Drawn by John NELSON MARBLE.
A KNOT OF BLUE .

Dr. Samuel Minturn Peck . .
After Photograph from Life by Moreno.

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Home. ConfessIO AMANTIS. .

Richard LeGallienne. “My Books in the Twilight."

Drawn by WILLIAM H. DRAKE.
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL.'.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Portrait of Author. Photograph by NOTMAN, Boston.

Parting and Absence. MEMORY

Charles H. Lüders “ The Spirit Leaf.”

Drawn by HARRY FENN.
PARTING

Coventry Patmore.
Portrait of Author. Photograph by LONDON STEREOSCOPIC Co.

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Bereavement and Death.

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AUGURY

Edith M. Thomas . • The Horse-Shoe"; "The Garden ”; “The Grave.” Drawn by Harry FENN. IF I SHOULD DIE To-Night

Belle E. Smith . "Memento Mori.”

Drawn by J. B. FRANKLIN.

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Sorrow and Adversity.

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FROM “SONNETS IN SHADOW

Arlo Bates “ Memoriais.''

Drawn by HARRY Fenn.
LIFE

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Portrait of Author. Photograph by RockwOOD, New York,

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Nature The SILENCE OF THE HILLS

William P. Foster "Summer Afternoon."

Drawn by Thomas R. MANLEY. EVENING

Archibald Lampman "The Great Night Comes On." Drawn by THOMAS R. MANLEY. GOLDENROD.

Elaine Goodale Eastman “A Fence Corner."

Drawn by Harry Fexx.
A Twilight FANCY .

Dora Read Goodale .
“Winter Landscape.”' After Photograph by BerlN PHOTOGRAPHIC Co., from

Painting by L. MATAFAS.
A SEPTEMBER VIOLET

Robert Underwood Johnson .
Drawn by HARRY FENA.
The Joys OF THE ROAD

Bliss Carman
Portrait of Author. Photograph by Rice, Windsor, N. S.
A Yellow Pansy.

Helen Gray Cone .
Drawn by HARRY Fexx.
TO AN ORIOLE

Edgar Fawcett.
Portrait of Author. Photograph by DUMMER, Jamaica, L. I.

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