CAROLYN WELLS
The Poster Girl

JAMES GARDNER SANDERSON
The Conundrum of the Golf Links

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
The Minister's Wooing

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Mrs. Johnson

ANONYMOUS
The Trout, the Cat and the Fox The British Matron




Agnes Repplier

A PLEA FOR HUMOR


More than half a dozen years have passed since Mr. Andrew Lang,
startled for once out of his customary light-heartedness, asked
himself, and his readers, and the ghost of Charles Dickens--all three
powerless to answer--whether the dismal seriousness of the present
day was going to last forever; or whether, when the great wave of
earnestness had rippled over our heads, we would pluck up heart to be
merry and, if needs be, foolish once again. Not that mirth and folly