Contents

Introduction -- The preliminaries / Cornelia A. P. Comer -- Buttercup-night / John Galsworthy -- Hepaticas / Anne Douglas Sedgwick -- Possessing Prudence / Amy Wentworth Stone -- The Glory-Box / Elizabeth Ashe -- The spirit of the herd / Dallas Lore Sharp -- In the Pasha's garden / H. G. Dwight -- Little selves / Mary Lerner -- The failure / Charles Caldwell Dobie -- Business is business / Henry Seidel Canby -- Nothing / Zephine Humphrey -- A moth of peace / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- In no strange land / Katharine Butler -- Little brother / Madeleine Z. Doty -- What road goeth he? / F. J. Louriet -- The clearer sight / Ernest Starr -- The garden of memories / C. A. Mercer -- The clearest voice / Margaret Sherwood -- The marble child / E. Nesbit -- The one left / E. V. Lucas -- The legacy of Richard Hughes / Margaret Lynn -- Of water and the spirit / Margaret Prescott Montague -- Mr. Squem / Arthur Russell Taylor.