includes biographical sketch and index

I. National: John Burns of Grettsburg; "How are you, Sanitary?"; Battle bunny; the reveille; Our privilege; Relieving guard; The Goddess; On a pen of Thomas Starr King; A second review of the grand army; The copperhead; A santiary message; The old major explains; California's greeting to seward; The ages stranger; The idyl of battle hollow; Caldwell of springfield; Poem, delivered on the fourteenth anniversary of California's admission into the union; Miss Blanche says; An arctic vision; St. Thomas; Off scarborough; cadet grey; II. Spanish idyls and legends: The miracle of Padre Junipero; the wonderful srping of San Joaquin; The angelus; Concepcion de Arguello; "For the king"; Ramon; Don Diego of the south; At the hacienda;Friar Pedro's ride; In the mission garden; The lost Galleon III. In Dialect: "Jim"; Chiquita; Dow's flat; In the tunnel; "Cicely"; Penelope; Plain langueage from truthful James; The society upon the stanislaus; Luke; "The babes in the woods"; the latest Chinese outrage; Truthful James to the editor; An idyl of the road; Thompson of Angels; The Hawk's nest; Her letter; His anser to "her letter"; "The return of Belisarius"; Further language from truthful James; After the accident; the ghost that Jim saw; "Seventy-nine"; The stage-driver's story; A question of privilege; The thought-reader of angels; The spelling bee at angels; Artemis in sierra; Jack of the tules IV. Miscellaneous: A greyport legend; A newport romance; San Francisco; the mountain heart's ease; Grizzly; Madrono; Coyote; To a sea-bird; What the chimney sang; Dickens in camp; Twenty years; Fate; Granmother Tenterden; Guild's signal; Aspiring Miss Delaine; A legend of cologne; The tale of a pony; On a cone of the big trees; Lone moutain; Alnaschar; The two ships; Address (opening of the California theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870); Dolly Varden; Telemachus versus Mentor; What the wolf really said to little red riding hood; Half an hour before supper; What the bullet sang; the old camp-fire; The station master of lone prairie; The mission bells of Monterey; "Crotalus"; On William Francis Bartlett; The birds of cirencester; Lines to a portrait, by a superior person; Her last letter: being a reply to "his answer"; V. Parodies: Before the curtian; To the pliocene skull; The ballad of Mr. Cooke; The Ballad of the emeu; Mrs. Judge Jenkins; A geological madrigal; Avitor; The willows; North beach; The lost tails of Miletus; The ritualist; A moral vindicator; California Mandrigal; What the engines said; The legens of the Rhine; Songs without sense VI. Little Posterity: Master Johnny's next door neighbor; Miss Edith's modest request; Miss Edith makes it pleasant for brother Jack; Miss Edith makes another friend; What Miss Edith saw from her window; On the landing