Reverse: Poem, "The Dead Master," by Richard Henry Stoddard.

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

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From Photograph of little GERMAINE REJANE, by AIMÉ DUPON1.

THE FIRST BLUEBIRD

James Whitcomb Riley
Portrait of Author. Photograph by PATTON, Indianapolis, Ind.

Love.

"The Spirit Leaf."

PARTING

Drawn by HARRY FENN.
Coventry Patmore.
Portrait of Author. Photograph by LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO.

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Bereavement and Death.

"The Horse-Shoe"; "The Garden"; "The Grave." Drawn by HARRY FENN.

AUGURY