This volume consists of a variety of essays by various authors entitled: A Counsel of Consolation by William Dean Howells; The Great Hope by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Is There Existence After Death by John Bigelow; Beyond the Veil by Julia Ward Howe; The Other Side of Mortality by H. M. Alden; The Future Life by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; The Future State by William Hanna Thomson; The Life After This by Guglielmo Ferrero; and Is There a Life After Death by Henry James.