One of the treasures passed down through my family is a slim volume entitled Contentment, a sort of Victorian gift book published by the Hayes Lithographing Company of Buffalo, N.Y., and bound in what appears to be alligator hide. The writers include the Rev. David Swing (1830-1894), Robert Burns (1759-1796), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788), Robert Greene (1558-1592), Mary Howitt (1799-1888), John Wilbye (1574-1638) and Joaquin Miller (1837-1918). The book dates from 1895 or so, and I thought some of the pages worth sharing:
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