Barse & Hopkins, New York, 1912.  Trade size soft cover, 151 pages.  Tan card covers with French flaps, two punch holes near spine with cord fastening; top edge gilt.  Gilt lettering in gilt wreath on front, some gilt rubbed away.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, short tears and losses at spine ends.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white frontis of Ralph Waldo Emerson with tissue guard intact.  Last card end page detached but laid in.  Inspirational excerpts from various authors, playwrights, poets, philosophers, etc. for each day of the year.