PREFACE

This little volume has been compiled for mothersand is lovingly offered as a tribute to the memoryof the almost perfect mother whose love cradledmy own childhood so sweetly as to make allmotherhood forever more dear to me.

It seems to be true that the years of a woman'slife that sink deepest into her heart and are fraughtwith her keenest joy and pain are the years whenher little children are clinging about her skirts.Then it is that she is truly "wealthy with smallcares, and small hands clinging to her knees." Butthen, too, she is often too busy with the passing ofthe full days and the long nights, so often punctuatedby the restless clinging of rosy fingers and all thedear demands of babyhood, to realize fully how blestare the days through which she is living.

It is especially for the busy mother that I havegathered this little collection of beautiful thoughtsabout childhood and motherhood, from some of theworld's best thinkers.

I hope it may bring to some of them as muchpleasure in the reading as it has to me in the preparation.

The selections from the writings of Lucy Larcom,Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell,Celia Thaxter, and Edith Thomas are used by thecourteous pe

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