| PAGE | | Authors at Work | 1 | | The Earnings of Authors | 43 | | Declined with Thanks | 67 | | Epigrams on Authors | 76 | | Poetical Graces | 90 | | Poetry on Panes | 94 | | English Folk-Rhymes | 100 | | The Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards | 110 | | Toasts and Toasting | 120 | | Curious American Old-Time Gleanings | 131 | | The Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet | 143 | | A Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe | 149 | | A Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter | 160 | | A Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper | 167 | | The Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips | 176 | | A Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller | 186 | | The Cottage Countess | 199 | | The Compiler of “Old Moore’s Almanac”: Henry Andrews | 206 | | James Nayler, the Mad Quaker, who claimed to be the Messiah | 213 | | A Biographical Romance: Swan’s Strange Story | 222 | | Short Letters | 228 | | Index | 237 |
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