The casket of literary gems: containing tales and sketches, choice selections, anecdotes, wit and humor.

Chicago: W. G. Holmes, 1880.


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Preliminares.- Indice.

Tales and sketches.

The boarding house.
Parte 1.
Parte 2.
Parte 3.

Rab and his friends.
Parte 1.
Parte 2.

The gridiron.

The fairy fleet.
Parte 1.
Parte 2.

An essay on an "old subject".

The voyage of life.- Dissection of a Beau´s head and a Coquette´s heart.

"Life endeared by Age", and "A city night piece".- Poor relations.

Choice selections.

Maxims.- Miscellaneous Aphorisms.- Moral sentiments.- Memory.- Life hath no "unmeddled joy".- Thoughts on death and immortality.- The death of father.- All can do good.

Rules of improvement by conversation.- Fisrt love.- Delicacy of taste.- Reply of pitt to Walpole, on being taunted on account of youth.- The Indian chief to the white settler.

Early recollectoins.- The departure of William Penn for America.- Watch tower utterances.- Nothing lost.- Childhood.- Early influences and sports.- Sunset.- A mother's influence.- Nature alone is antique.

Love.- Anger.- Joy and sorrow.- Conduct.- Light, the beginnings of all creation.- Communion of souls.- Silence and secrecy.- Two men alone honorable.- The poor man.- Fair day's wages for fair day's work.- A brave man.- Hell.- Wretchedness.- Advice to a young man.- Music.- The song and the singer.- The modern opera.- Food and raiment.

Extracts from the works of John Ruskin. Pride.- The truth of Truths.- Simplicity.- Making a right choice.- The harvest is ripe.- Recreation.- Flowers.- All carving and no meat.- Loss.- Life never a jest.- The love of flowers.- The memory of unkindness.- Cheerfulness.- Selection from essay "On murder, considered as a fine art".- Alone in London.
Parte 1.
Parte 2.

Anecdotes Biographical.
Parte 1.
Parte 2.
Parte 3.

Miscellaneous anecdotes.

Wit and humor.
Legal wit.- Josh billings wise and humorous sayings extracts from artemas ward's popular lecture.- Mark twain's story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief.- Queer and instructive sayings of Mrs. Partington.- Caudle´s wedding day.- Irish wit and humor.- Miscellaneous wit and humor.
Parte 1.
Parte 2.
Parte 3.
Parte 4.