Pages 30 through 39
Page 30: This page contains four poems (one attributed to the poet Fitz James O'Brien), a list of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and an article about the locations of American presidents' graves.
Page 31: This page contains three poems, one of which is Rose Hartwick Thorpe's "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," as well as a story about four best friends who fought and died together as members of the Confederate army.
Page 32: This page contains one long poem, "No Sect in Heaven": an allegory in which Christians of various denominations approach heaven but must leave the markers of their denomination aside before they can enter. There is also a short "Fable on Discontentment."
Page 33: This page contains six poems, none of them with author attributions.
Page 34: This page is dominated by a colorful postcard depicting an isolated country church. Beneath the postcard are two poems (one by Mary Colby and one by G. Linnaeus Banks) and a short piece comparing a faithful wife to a tugboat that keeps a great ship afloat. (The piece is not dated, so it is impossible to know whether Prudence clipped this piece before or after she married.)
Page 35: This page contains an illustrated poem titled "Which is the Best?" in which a group of fruits and vegetables argue about their relative merits. The accompanying image shows the anthropomorphized fruits and vegetables in conference with one another. There is also an unsigned poem on the subject of "thought."
Page 36: This page contains an image of an impoverished violin player and his daughter that circulated widely in the nineteenth century. (See the page annotations for more details.) It also contains essays on making the best of life and on "Managing a Man," as well as a poem about God's love.
Page 37: This page contains poems and short essays on the themes of home and family, married life, and the dangers of greed.
Page 38: This page contains two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and two less well-known poems. There is also a set of similes describing the Bible and an illustration of children playing (probably chosen to accompany the Longfellow poem "The Children's Hour.")
Page 39: This poem contains one large and two smaller die-cut illustrations depicting flowers in vases as well as a whimsical poem about the "fashions" in the flower kingdom.
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