Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by J. M. HARPER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 

 

Stereotyped by HOBART & ROBBINS, New England Type and Stereotype Foundery, BOSTON. 

 To the 

 FIRESIDES OF THE WESTERN WORLD, 

 With the fond Hope 

 THAT ITS PAGES MAY SERVE TO ENLIVEN OR ENTERTAIN SOME FEWOF THOSE EVENING HOURS WHEN PLEASANT FACES GATHERROUND WARM, GLOWING HEARTH-STONES, 

 This simple Volume 

IS UNOBTRUSIVELY PRESENTED, 

BY THE 

UNKNOWN AND NAMELESS AUTHOR, 

WHO WOULD RATHER FIND WARM HEARTS AMONG HER READERSTHAN WIN THE LAURELS OF A TRANSITORY FAME. 

 Transcriber's Note: 

 There are two instances of illegible words in this text, both as a result of ink blots.They have been indicated as [illegible]. 

 

 PREFACE. 

 

 When the sun has disappeared behind the western mountains, and the stars sparkled o'er the blue concave, we have been accustomed to sit down to the compilation of this unpretending volume, and therefore it is called "Eventide." O, that its pages might be read at that calm, silent hour,—their follies mercifully overlooked, their faults as kindly forgiven. 

 Fain would we dedicate this "waif of weary moments" to some warm-hearted, watchful spirit, who might shelter it from the pitiless 

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