THE MYRTLE WREATH, OR STRAY LEAVES RECALLED.
ByMinnie Myrtle.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU ST.
1854.Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. TOBITT'S COMBINATION-TYPE, 181 William st. R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER, 53 VESEY STREET, N. Y.
TO
HENRY J. RAYMOND,
Editor N. Y. Daily Times,
HER CORDIAL AND GENEROUS FRIEND,
The Wreath,
WHICH HIS APPROBATION FIRST ENCOURAGED HER TO TWINE,
IS RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
- A Word to my Readers. 7
- My Children. 11
- The Picture with Two Faces. 16
- Thanksgiving in the Great Emporium. 21
- Neighbors. 27
- Cincinnati in March. 31
- To an Infant Playing with a Sunbeam. 34
- A Word about Music. 36
- Love and Money. 38
- Song of the Cossack. 52
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- The Unwelcome Baby. 55
- A Steamboat on the Ohio. 62
- An Incident by the Way. 67
- My Mother. 72
- Terms of Reproach. 76
- A Yankee Courtship. 80
- The Breaking Heart. 91
- A Word for Woman. 94
- Christmas is Coming. 97
- Solitary Musings upon Solitude. 101
- My Garden Flowers. 106
- Two Mothers—the False and the True. 109
- Literary Women. 115
- A Brother's Love and Gratitude. 119
- A Little Child Shall Teach Them. 125
- The Heart. 128
- Introductions. 131
- First Impressions upon the Mississippi. 134
- The Story a Thousand Times Told—Yet Always New. 137
- A Chapter on Love. 142
- Country Cousins. 146
- Our Baby. 150
- The Clearing. 155
- A Husband's Soliloquy. 163
- Dress, Houses, and Housework. 166
- The True Hero. 169
- A Hint to Housekeepers. 173
- Return to My Country, Translated from the French of Beranger. 176
- Ellen S——, Or Marrying for a Home. 181
- Some Wicked Thoughts I had in Church. 201
- Thanksgiving. 206
- Thoughts at the Croton Fountains. 209
- She is a Fashionable Woman, and ought not to be Married. 212
- Thoughts on the Prairie in Spring. 216
- The Family Room. 220
- One of Life's Contrasts. 228
- The Healing. 234
- Strange Things which I have Seen and Heard. 236
- Thrilling Incident and Visit to an Artist's Studio. 239
- Poor Little Robert. 243
- A Solitary Ride on the Prairie. 249
- What's in a Name. 258
- My Own Little Corner. 264
- Another Reverie in a Lone Corner. 267
- A Woman's Toil. 272
- Bill and Little Amy. 277
- The Bachelor's Bedroom. 283
- Kitty Grey—Or, I Have Beauty Enough to Carry Me Through the World. 287
- The Little Match Girl. 297
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- A July Night on The Upper Mississippi. 303
- A Hint to the Lords of Creation. 307
- The Little Boy with Faggots. 312
- Our Valley. 320
- Amelia. 344
- The Winter Boquet. 354
- Conversation as an Art. 357
- Is She Happy. 364
- Adventures of a Snowflake. 369
