AUTUMNAL LEAVES.
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AUTUMNAL LEAVES: TALES AND SKETCHES IN PROSE AND RHYME.
BYL. MARIA CHILD.
I speak, as in the days of youth, In simple words some earnest truth.NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 554 BROADWAY. BOSTON:—53 DEVONSHIRE STREET.
1857.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, BY C. S. FRANCES & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Several of the articles contained in this volume have appeared in various periodicals ten or twelve years ago. Others have been recently written, during the hours that could be spared from daily duties.
page: (Table of Contents) [View Page (Table of Contents) ]CONTENTS.
- THE EGLANTINE, 9
- A SERENADE, 46
- THE JURYMAN, 47
- THE FAIRY FRIEND, 65
- WERGELAND, THE POET, 72
- THE EMIGRANT BOY, 79
- HOME AND POLITICS, 96
- TO THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, 119
- THE CATHOLIC AND THE QUAKER, 121
- THE RIVAL MECHANICIANS, 143
- A SONG, 165
- UTOUCH AND TOUCHU, 166
- THE BROTHER AND SISTER, 181
- THE STREAM OF LIFE, 200
- THE MAN THAT KILLED HIS NEIGHBOURS, 203
- INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS, 221
- THE WORLD THAT I AM PASSING THROUGH, 231
- JAN AND ZAIDA, 233
- TO THE NASTURTIUM, 268
- THE ANCIENT CLAIRVOYANT, 269
- SPIRIT AND MATTER, 291
- THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, 302
- I WANT TO GO HOME, 364
