SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FOR THE CHILDREN A MOTHER BOOK BY E. FRANCES SOULE NEW YORK FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT NOTE. THE author desires to acknowledge with thanks the courteous permission granted by the publishers and owners of copyright, for the use of the following hymns and poems: "Out in the Meadows," The Oliver Ditson Company; "A Wonderful Tree," by Mrs. M. N. Meigs; and “O, Ring, Glad Bells," Messrs. W. A. Pond & Co.; "O Little Town of Bethlehem," by Phillips Brooks; "The Star of Bethlehem," by E. Nesbit; also portions of three of Frances Ridley Havergal's poems, Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. 3 Motherbood. "A soft white nest in a shadowy room, A tiny form 'mid the pillows curled, A woman still in her youthful bloom,— This is the mother, and that her world. "Two blue eyes that begin to unclose 4 |