The Parlor Muse.

A SELECTION OF

VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ

FROM MODERN POETS.

NEW YORK :
D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3, 5

Bond Street.

COPYRIGHT, 1884,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

. Hozzands
7-27 - 26

Contents.

PAGE

Up the Aisle-Nell Latine's Wedding.

George A. Baker, Jr. 49

To Youngsters

John Vance Cheney. 52

The Hat

From the French. 54

Just a Love-Letter

H. C. Bunner. 66

Possum"-I Can Lizzie W. Champney. 71

Past and Present; or, Romance versus Reality.

David Ker. 75

Free, or Caged

79

In the Conservatory .

Earl Marble. 83

The Amateur Spelling-Match

A Church-going Belle

Anonymous. 88

I Wish he would Decide

89

An Idyl of the Period

91

A Tiny Tragedy

Alf. Carnie. 94

85