STEPPING STONES TO HAPPINESS ~ Harriet Prescott Spofford HC 1897 1st Ed ILLUS 27

Description: STEPPING STONES TO HAPPINESSby Harriet Prescott SpoffordIllustrated_________________ Pictorial hardcover no dust jacket; 496 pages; Size Approx. 7 1/4 X 9.Published by The Christian Herald; 1897, first edition.Details: This is a fine old book containing brief essays, stories, and a little poetry on many and varied subjects that have a bearing on happiness.From the use of time to self-reliance and self-esteem, families and ancestry, home and mothers and children, nature and gardens, town and country living, health, old age, pets, economy in the home, spirituality, charity and love of others, and much more!Almost as engaging as the subject content of the book are the truly wonderful illustration throughout the book. 127 of them, beautiful rural scenes, lovely girls and women in victorian dress, children, touching home scenes, nature, etc."In all ages the search for happiness has been the ultimate aim and desire of human effort - happiness here and hereafter. To those Searchers, in every station in life, this Book is dedicated, in the hope that it may be the means of guiding them, by pleasant paths, to the true Temple of Happiness, whence flow those delectable streams that refresh the hearts and rejoice the souls of all who enter the quest with a pure and resolute purpose." ~ from the IntroductoryHarriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs.The binding was coming loose, so the text-block was carefully disbound from the casing and completely reglued and then recased in the original binding. 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