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“She took up her verse where William had interrupted.”
EMMY LOU HER BOOK & HEART BY GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES LOUIS HINTON “My Book and Heart Must Never Part.” New England Primer GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers — New York
Copyright, 1901, 1902, by S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1902, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Fifteenth Impression
To My Sister THE AUNT CORDELIA of these stories, this book is affectionately inscribed
CONTENTS
The Right Promethean Fire 1
A Little Feminine Casabianca 29
Hare-And-Tortoise or the Bliss of Ignorance 49
“I Sing of Honor and the Faithful Heart” 81
The Play’s the Thing 113
The Shadow of a Tragedy 135
All the Winds of Doctrine 165
The Confines of Consistency 193
A Ballad in Print o’ Life 225
Venus or Minerva? 247