Shadows and Sunbeams, 13 Aunt Hepsy, 36 Thoughts at Church, 40 The Brothers, 42 Curious Things, 48 The advantages of a House in a Fashionable Square, 49 Winter is Coming, 59 The Other Sex, 61 Soliloquy of Mr. Broadbrim, 63 Willie Grey, 65 Tabitha Tompkins’ Soliloquy, 82 Soliloquy of a Housemaid, 85 Critics, 87 Forgetful Husbands, 89 Summer Friends, 91 How the Wires are Pulled, 92 Who would be the Last Man, 95 Only a Cousin, 96 The Calm of Death, 99 Mrs. Adolphus Smith sporting the Blue Stocking, 101 Cecile Vray, 103 Sam Smith’s Soliloquy, 105 Love and Duty, 110 A False Proverb, 114 A Model Husband, 116 How is it? 118 A Morning Ramble, 120 Hour-Glass Thoughts, 123 Boarding-House Experiences, 125 A Grumble from the (H)altar, 132 A Wicked Paragraph, 133 Mistaken Philanthrophy, 135 Insignificant Love, 137 A Model Married Man, 139 Meditations of Paul Pry, jun., 141 Sunshine and Young Mothers, 144 Uncle Ben’s attack of Spring Fever, and how Cured, 146 The Aged Minister Voted a Dismission, 150 The Fatal Marriage, 152 Frances Sargeant Osgood, 157 Best Things, 161 The Vestry Meeting, 164 A Broadway Shop Reverie, 167 The Old Woman, 170 Sunday Morning at the Dibdins, 172 Items of Travel, 175 Newspaper-dom, 178