This volume contains a charming guide to happiness by early feminist author Harriet Spofford. Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835 - 1921) was an American writer famous for her novels, poems and detective fiction. Other notable works by this author include: Azarian: An Episode (1864), New England Legends (1871), and The Thief in the Night (1872). Contents include: The Use of the Present, On a Texas Prairie, A Mirage, The Present Time, The Uses of This World, Advancing Years, Looking Backward, Disenchantment, Illusions, Idle Regrets, Going Over Dry Shod, Perpetual Hope, An Ideal World, A Child’s Discovery, et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.