Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: frontispiece] MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED [Illustration: colophon] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1893 Harper’s “Black and White” Series. Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each. MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. By William Dean Howells. EVENING DRESS. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. THE WORK OF WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner. EDWIN BOOTH. By Laurence Hutton. THE DECISION OF THE COURT. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews. PHILLIPS BROOKS. By Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. By John White Chadwick. THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA. By Henry M. Stanley. WHITTIER: NOTES OF HIS LIFE AND OF HIS FRIENDSHIPS. By Annie Fields. THE RIVALS. By François Coppée. THE JAPANESE BRIDE. By Naomi Tamura. GILES COREY, YEOMAN. By Mary E. Wilkins. COFFEE AND REPARTEE. By John Kendrick Bangs. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. An Address. By George William Curtis. SEEN FROM THE SADDLE. By Isa Carrington Cabell. A FAMILY CANOE TRIP. By Florence Watters Snedeker. A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN. By William Dean Howells. A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. IN THE VESTIBULE LIMITED. By Brander Matthews. THE ALBANY DEPOT. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of price._ Copyright, 1893, by W. D. HOWELLS. _All rights reserved._ MY YEAR IN A LOG-CABIN A BIT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY I