"Violets and Other Tales" is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems, by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, which were written with a motive to inculcate morals and books teaching lessons. Table of Contents: Violets Three Thoughts The Woman Ten Minutes' Musing A Plaint In Unconsciousness Titee Anarchy Alley Impressions Salammbo Legend of the Newspaper A Carnival Jangle Paul to Virginia (Fin de Siecle) The Maiden's Dream In Memoriam A Story of Vengeance At Bay St. Louis New Year's Day Unknown Life of Jesus Christ In Our Neighborhood Little Miss Sophie Little Miss Sophie If I Had Known! Chalmette At Eventide The Idler Love and the Butterfly The Bee-Man Amid the Roses