"DREAM-CHILDREN

AND

66

SEVEN LITTLE PEOPLE AND THEIR
FRIENDS."

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street.
The Ritaerside Press, Cambridge:

od896.8

r

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

788340 A
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1985

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

HORACE E. SCUDDER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.

Printed by H. 0. Houghton & Company.

CONTENTS.

PAGI

1

THE ATTIO

IN THE WINDOW SEAT.

LOOKING AT A PICTURE

HENS

A STORY THAT I MEAN TO WRITE

AN AUGUST NIGHT

AT CHRISTMAS TIME.

.

22

25

28

34

.

AT THE STUDY TABLE.

THE SLEEPY OLD TOWN OF BRUGES

89

With an illustration from a photograph.

THE BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN SPURS

54

SIR WALTER SCOTT

61

With an illustration of Sir Walter's Study, from a photograph.

THE SINGING OF THE SEIRENS

73

FRANCIS HUBER

78

With a portrait.

WHEN MUSIC IS HEARD.

THE MUSIC PARTY

87

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

110

With a portrait

THE RETURN OF ORPHEUS

124

BEFORE THE FIRE.

"As GOOD AS A PLAY"

THE ENCHANTMENT OF OLD DANIEL

THE NEIGHBOR

131

137