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WRITINGS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
Mrs. Stowe's romances are among the most thoughtful, picturesque, and popular works of modern fiction. Indeed, they should hardly be called fictitious; for they treat inimitably, and with unfailing freshness, some of the deepest themes that engage the attention of earnest minds. They paint marvellously truthful pictures of the times, countries, and people to which they relate, and are inspired by a nobility of purpose that lifts them infinitely above the ordinary novel. Yet they are so humorous, so exceedingly ingenious in depicting the ludicrous side of things, that they rank with the most charming stories in English Literature. Her essays, juvenile books, and poems are among the best of their kind, and bear ample proofs of Mrs. Stowe's genius.
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| THE MINISTER'S WOOING. 12mo | 2.00 |
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| HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS. 16mo | 1.75 |
| LITTLE FOXES. 16mo | 1.75 |
| THE CHIMNEY-CORNER. 16mo | 1.75 |
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⁂ For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Publishers,
Cathedral Building, Winthrop Square, Boston.
THE
CHIMNEY-CORNER.
BY
CHRISTOPHER CROWFIELD,
AUTHOR OF "HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS" AND "LITTLE FOXES."
BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
1877.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| I. | What will You do with Her? or, The Woman Question | 1 |
| II. | Woman's Sphere | 27 |
| III. | A Family-Talk on Reconstruction | 63 |
| IV. | Is Woman a Worker? | 100 |
| V. | The Transition | 123 |
| VI. | Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health | 142 |
| VII. | How shall we entertain our Company? | 166 |
| VIII. | How shall we be amused? | 187 |
| IX. | Dress, or who makes the Fashions | 205 |
| X. | What are the Sources of Beauty in Dress | 235 |
| XI. | The Cathedral | 259 |
| XII. | The New Year | 278 |
| XIII. | The Noble Army of Martyrs | 297 |
THE CHIMNEY-CORNER.
I. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH HER? OR, THE WOMAN QUESTION.
"Well, what will you do with her?" said I to my wife.
My wife had just come down from an interview with a pale, faded-looking young woman in rusty black attire, who had called upon me on the very common supposition that I was an editor of the "Atlantic Monthly."
By the by, this is a mistake that brings me, Christopher Crowfield, many letters that do not belong to me, and which might with equal pertinency