E-text prepared by Emmy, Darleen Dove, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/loveworkswonders00bramrich LOVE WORKS WONDERS. A Novel. by BERTHA M. CLAY, Author of "Thrown on the World," Etc. "O you, that have the charge of Love, Keep him in rosy bondage bound, As in the Fields of Bliss above He sits with flowerets fetter'd round; Loose not a tie that round him clings, Nor ever let him use his wings; For even an hour, a minute's flight Will rob the plumes of half their light." MOORE. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, Street & Smith, New York Weekly. MDCCCLXXVIII. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, By Street & Smith, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Francis S. Street,} _Proprietors and Publishers_ Francis S. Smith, } Of the New York Weekly, The Leading Story and Sketch Paper of the Age. TO THE READERS OF THE NEW YORK WEEKLY, WHO FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS, HAVE STOOD FAITHFULLY BY US, CHEERING US IN OUR LABORS, AND BIDDING US GOD-SPEED; TO WHOM OUR PET JOURNAL HAS BECOME A HOUSEHOLD WORD, AND WITHOUT WHOSE AID WE COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHERS, STREET & SMITH. CONTENTS: