_ UNDER the title of Confessions of a Housekeeper, a portion of the matter in this volume has already appeared. The book is now considerably increased, and the range of subjects made to embrace the grave and instructive, as well as the agreeable and amusing. The author is sure, that no lady reader, familiar with the trials, perplexities, and incidents of housekeeping, can fail to recognize many of her own experiences, for nearly every picture that is here presented, has been drawn from life. _

Introduction
Chapter 1. My Speculation In China Ware
Chapter 2. Something About Cooks
Chapter 3. Light On The Subject
Chapter 4. Cheap Furniture
Chapter 5. Is It Economy?
Chapter 6. Living At A Convenient Distance
Chapter 7. The Picked-Up Dinner
Chapter 8. Who Is Kriss Kringle?
Chapter 9. Not At Home
Chapter 10. Shirt Buttons
Chapter 11. Pavement Washing In Winter
Chapter 12. Regard For The Poor
Chapter 13. Something More About Cooks
Chapter 14. Not A Rag On Their Backs
Chapter 15. Curiosity
Chapter 16. House-Cleaning
Chapter 17. Broiling A Lobster
Chapter 18. The Strawberry-Woman
Chapter 19. Lots Of Things
Chapter 20. A Cure For Low Spirits
Chapter 21. A Bargain
Chapter 22. A Peevish Day And Its Consequences
Chapter 23. Words
Chapter 24. May Be So
Chapter 25. "The Poor Child Died"
Chapter 26. The Rival Bonnets
Chapter 27. My Washerwoman
Chapter 28. My Borrowing Neighbor
Chapter 29. Experience In Taking Boarders
Chapter 30. Two Ways With Domestics
Chapter 31. A Mother's Duty