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AMERICAN THUMB-PRINTS

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In shorter form “The New EnglandWoman” appeared in The AtlanticMonthly, and under other title andform “Up-to-Date Misogyny” and“Plagiarizing Humors of BenjaminFranklin” in The Bookman, whichperiodicals have courteously allowedrepublication3

AMERICAN
THUMB-PRINTS

METTLE OF OUR
MEN AND WOMEN

BY
KATE STEPHENS

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1905

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Copyright, 1905
By J. B. Lippincott Company


Published April, 1905


Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.
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IN MOST LOVING MEMORY OF
MY FATHER

NELSON TIMOTHY STEPHENS

WHOSE RARE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN AND OF LAW
WHOSE SENSITIVENESS TO JUSTICE
HUMAN KINDLINESS
AND FINE DISDAIN FOR SELF-ADVERTISEMENT
ARE STILL CHERISHED BY THE NOBLE FOLK
AMONG WHOM HE SPENT
THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE
AT WHOSE INSTANCE IN GREAT MEASURE
AND UPON WHOSE ADVICE
THE LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY
SKETCHED IN THIS BOOK
WAS IN 1878
FOUNDED
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CONTENTS

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PURITANS OF THE WEST

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