Title -- Contents -- Authors -- I The Father - By William Dean Howells -- II The Old-Maid Aunt - By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- III The Grandmother - By Mary Heaton Vorse -- IV The Daughter-In-Law - By Mary Stewart Cutting -- V The School-Girl - By Elizabeth Jordan -- VI The Son-In-Law - By John Kendrick Bangs -- VII The Married Son - By Henry James -- VIII The Married Daughter - By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- IX The Mother - By Edith Wyatt -- X The School-Boy - By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews -- XI Peggy - By Alice Brown -- XII The Friend of the Family - By Henry Van Dyke.