CONTENTS
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS
- [ The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way of Introduction]
- [ A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth ]
- [ Sclerosis of the Tastes ]
- [ The Practices and Precepts of Vaudeville]
- [ Intimations of Italian Opera ]
- [ The Superiority of Our Inferiors ]
- [Unimportance of Women in Republics ]
- [ Having Just Got Home ]
- [ New York To the Home-comer's Eye ]
- [Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth]
- [ Ways and Means of Living in New York ]
- [The Quality of Boston and the Quantity of New York ]
- [ The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles ]
- [ The Magazine Muse ]
- [ Comparative Luxuries of Travel ]
- [ Qualities Without Defects ]
- [ A Wasted Opportunity]
- [A Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle]
- [ A Search for Celebrity]
- [ Practical Immortality on Earth]
- [ Around a Rainy-day Fire ]
- [ The Advantages of Quotational Criticism]
- [ Reading for a Grandfather]
- [ Some Moments With the Muse ]
- [ A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work]
OTHER ESSAYS
- [ Autumn in the Country and City]
- [ Personal and Epistolary Addresses ]
- [ Dressing for Hotel Dinner]
- [ The Counsel of Literary Age to Literary Youth]
- [ The Unsatisfactoriness of Unfriendly Criticism]
- [The Fickleness of Age]
- [ The Renewal of Inspiration ]
- [ The Summer Sojourn of Florindo and Lindora]
- [To Have the Honor of Meeting ]
- [ A Day at Bronx Park ]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[AT THE OPERA ]
[FIFTH AVENUE AT THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ]
[FIFTH AVENUE FROM THE TOP OF A MOTOR-BUS ]
[CHARLES EMBANKMENT, BELOW HARVARD BRIDGE ]
[THE MALL, CENTRAL PARK ]
[BROADWAY AT NIGHT ]
[ELECTION-NIGHT CROWDS]
[ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, BRONX PARK ]