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CONTENTS


A Happy Half-Century 1
The Perils of Immortality 16
When Lalla Rookh was Young 32
The Correspondent 51
The Novelist 73
On the Slopes of Parnassus 94
The Literary Lady 116
The Child 138
The Educator 155
The Pietist 177
The Accursed Annual 196
Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother 217
The Album Amicorum 234


"A Happy Half-Century," "The Perils of Immortality," and "The Correspondent" appeared first in Harper's Magazine, "Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother" in Harper's Bazar, and "On the Slopes of Parnassus" in the Atlantic Monthly; they are here reprinted by permission of the publishers of those magazines.