AMERICAN THUMB-PRINTS
Reading edition
In shorter form “The New England Woman” appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, and under other title and form “Up-to-Date Misogyny” and “Plagiarizing Humors of Benjamin Franklin” in The Bookman, which periodicals have courteously allowed republication
AMERICAN THUMB-PRINTS METTLE OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN BY KATE STEPHENS PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1905
Copyright, 1905 By J. B. Lippincott Company Published April, 1905 Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.
IN MOST LOVING MEMORY OF MY FATHER NELSON TIMOTHY STEPHENS WHOSE RARE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN AND OF LAW WHOSE SENSITIVENESS TO JUSTICE HUMAN KINDLINESS AND FINE DISDAIN FOR SELF-ADVERTISEMENT ARE STILL CHERISHED BY THE NOBLE FOLK AMONG WHOM HE SPENT THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE AT WHOSE INSTANCE IN GREAT MEASURE AND UPON WHOSE ADVICE THE LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY SKETCHED IN THIS BOOK WAS IN 1878 FOUNDED