GEMS

FOR THE FIRESIDE

COMPRISING

Lames to Cosh

THE MOST UNIQUE, TOUCHING, PITHY, AND BEAUTIFUL

LITERARY TREASURES

FROM THE GREATEST MINDS IN THE REALMS OF POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY,

WIT AND HUMOR, STATESMANSHIP AND RELIGION.

Elegantly Illustrated

AMONG THE BRILLIANT MEN AND WOMEN OF GENIUS WHOSE VERY CHOICEST PRODUCTIONS ENRICH THESE
PAGES ARE SHAKESPEARE, MILTON, MOORE, BURNS, BRYANT, BYRON, SHELLEY, SCOTT, CAMPBELL,
HOOD, WORDSWOrth, LongfeLLOW, TENNYSON, HOLMES, HEMANS, WHITTIER, SAXE,

SIGOURNEY, DICKENS, LOVER, EVERETT, BRET HARTE, FRANKLIN, MACAULAY,

AND ABOUT TWO HUNDRED OTHER AUTHORS OF ESTABLISHED FAME.

ALSO

MANY RARE AND EXCELLENT PIECES OF PECULIAR MERIT
WHOSE AUTHORSHIP IS UNKNOWN,

ARE INCLUDED,

MAKING A WONDERFULLY RICH

TREASURY FOR THE HOME CIRCLE

A CHARMING

LIBRARY OF PROSE AND VERSE.

REV. O. H. TIFFANY, D. D., EDITOR

PHILADELPHIA

HUBBARD BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

1882.

Entered according to Act of Congress.