A Conscientious Young Man, 310 City Scenes and City Life, No. 1, 312 do do do 2, 317 do do do 3, 322 do do do 4, 326 Two Pictures, 330 Feminine Waiters at Hotels, 332 Letter to the Empress Eugenia, 334 Music in the Natural Way, 337 For Ladies that go Shopping, 339 Modern Improvements, 344 The Old Merchant wants a Situation, 348 A Moving Tale, 350 This Side and That, 358 Mrs. Zebedee Smith’s Philosophy, 361 Opening of the Crystal Palace, 363 A Lance Couched for the Children, 369 A Chapter on Housekeeping, 371 Barnum’s Museum, 373 A Fern Reverie, 377 Apollo Hyacinth, 381 Spoiled Little Boy, 384 A Brown Study, 386 Incidents at the Five Points House of Industry, 388 Nancy Pry’s Soliloquy, 396 For Little Children, 397 Illustrations. PAGE. VIGNETTE TITLE, THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE, (FRONTISPIECE.) MR. STUBBS AND HIS FRIENDS, 82 THE BLUE STOCKING, 101 THE AGED MINISTER, 150 OUR STREET, 194 SIMON SKINFLINT, 300 THE MAY-DAY MOVING, 350 Fern Leaves--Second Series. SHADOWS AND SUNBEAMS. CHAPTER I.