By the same Author. POEMS. Household Edition. With Portrait. gilt, $2.00. 12m0, $1.50; full 2 vols. 32m0, $2.50. Family Edition. Illustrated. 8vo, $2.50. BEFORE THE CURFEW. 16mo, $1.00. SONGS IN MANY KEYS. 16m0, $1.50. ASTRÆEA: The Balance of Illusions. 16mo, 75 cents. SONGS OF MANY SEASONS. 16m0, $2.00. THE SCHOOL-BOY. Illustrated. 8vo, $2.50. THE IRON GATE, and Other Poems. With Portrait. 12mo, $1.25. ILLUSTRATED POEMS. With etched Portrait and Illustrations. Royal 8vo, $4.00. THE LAST LEAF. With twenty full-page phototypes, and other decorations. Quarto, $10.00. GRANDMOTHER'S STORY, etc. 16mo, paper, 15 cents. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. $2.00. Handy-Volume Edition. 24mo, $1.25. New Birthday Edition. With engraved title-page. 2 vols. 16m0, gilt top, $2.50. Limited First Edition. 2 vols. 16mo, uncut, $3.00. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. Crown 8vo, $2.co. New Birthday Edition, revised and with Notes. With engraved title-pages. 2 vols. 16m0, $2.50. Limited First Edition. 16mo, uncut, $3.00. THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. Crown 8vo, $2.00. New Birthday Edition, revised and with Notes. With engraved title-pages. 2 vols. 16m0, $2.50. Limited First Edition. 16mo, uncut, $3.00. THE BREAKFAST-TABLE SERIES. 3 vols. crown 8vo, $6.00. New Birthday Edition. 6 vols. 16mo, $7.50. ELSIE VENNER. Crown 8vo, $2.00; paper, 50 cents. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. A Novel. Crown 8vo, $2.00; paper, 50 cents. PAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE. Crown 8vo, $2 00. OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE. Crown 8vo, $1.50. OVER THE TEACUPS. Crown 8vo, $1.50. THE BREAKFAST-TABLE SERIES, together with Elsie Venner, With Portrait. 16mo, $1.25. SELECTIONS FROM BREAKFAST-TABLE SERIES, etc. 32mo, 75 cents. MY HUNT AFTER THE CAPTAIN, and Favorite Poems. 32m0, 40 cents. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AUTHOR OF "THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE" BOSTON AND NEW YORK 828 Copyright, 1890, BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. THE Teapot represented on the title-page seems entitled to special mention. Its inscription shows it to be the gift of pupils to their Instructor, in the year 1738. The pupils were students of Harvard College; the Instructor was Henry Flynt, Fellow and Tutor from 1699 to 1754. The three nodules of flint on the escutcheon belong to what are called in heraldry "canting arms." Henry Flynt was a bachelor. The Teapot passed by descent to his niece Dorothy (Quincy) Jackson, from her to her daughter Mary (Jackson) Wendell, then to her daughter Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, and from her to her son, the present owner, O. W. H. |