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This illustrated children's book was published in 1904 and tells of a "saint" for each month of the year. An excerpt from January: St. Dolly - At an early age, Saint Dolly showed the sweetness of her nature by her tender lover for her widowed father: a baker, dwelling at Pie Corner, with a large family of little children. It chanced that, with bad harvests, bread became so dear that, of course, bakers were ruined by high prices. The miller fell upon Dolly's father, and swept the shop with his golden thumb. Not a bed was left for the baker or his little ones. Chapters: January - St. Dolly February - St. Patty March - St. Norah April - St. Betsy May - St. Phillis June - St. Phoebe July - St. Sally August - St. Becky September - St. Lily October - St. Fanny November - St. Jenny December - St. Florence ............................................................................... From the book's Introductory Note: This is the first time that these Fireside Saints have formed a volume by themselves. They originally appeared in the Punch Almanack for 1857 the year of their author's death and, so far as I am aware, have been but twice reprinted since. Once in a volume of Douglas Jerrold's scattered writings published in America in 1888, a volume that took its name from the "Saints" which occupied its earliest pages. The collection was made by a writer who signed his preface "J.E.B., Melrose, July 24, 1873". Whom the initials represent, and whether the volume had appeared in England before being published in America, I have not been able to ascertain. The second time that the Fireside Saints were reprinted was in The Handbook of Swindling and Other Papers, a volume of Douglas Jerrold's miscellanies which I prepared for the "Camelot Series" in 1891. The editor of the first-named volume referred to these little thumb-nail sketches as "the sweetest and sunniest of Jerrold's writings"; the author's eldest son and biographer spoke of them thus ----- presently come trooping from his pen twelve Fireside Saints to sit about men's Christmas hearths, in 1857. They are holy little presences, these, with each her special shining virtue to be imitated. Any home shall be the better for looking at - for studying them. They were their author's last marked success in Punch that is, the last things of his which the public seized upon, and welcomed, acknowledging their author? This is in one slight point a little misleading, as the "Saints" appeared in the Almanacks, or 1857, and were therefore present at "men's Christmas hearths" in 1856. Each month of the Almanack had a "Saint" allotted to it, the legends being set in very small type, in very narrow columns, down the sides of the "cuts". Never assuredly have they made a more pleasantly fitting appearance than here in company with the delightful illustrations with which they have inspired the pencil of Mr. Charles Robinson, one of the most poetically fanciful of the young artists of the present day. Dainty, fanciful, and quaint, the "Saints" are representative of the least well-known side of Douglas Jerrold's nature, the least well-remembered kind of his writings; he is known as a man of biting, "savage" wit, but not also, as he should be, as a man of intense sympathy and tenderness; as writer he is remembered by such work as Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures and Black-Eyed Susan, but he better deserves to be remem- bered by such work as The Chronicles of Clovernook and Time Works Wonders. It is then, the deeper side of his nature, the more truly individual class of his work that, within their slight limits, these biographies in little represent. Walter Jerrold

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