| Description |
viii pages, 1 leaf, 242 pages : illustrations ; 19 1/2 cm |
| Contents |
The perfect reader -- The autogenesis of a poet -- The old reliable -- In memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere -- Adventures at lunch time -- Secret transactions of the three hours of lunch club -- Initiation -- Creed of the three hours for lunch club -- A preface to the profession of journalism -- McSorley's -- A portrait -- Going to Philadelphia -- Our tricolour tie -- The club of abandoned husbands -- West broadway -- The rudeness of poets -- 1100 words -- Some inns -- The club in Hoboken -- The club at its worst -- A suburban sentimentalist -- Gissing -- A dialogue -- At the Gasthof zum Ochsen -- Mr. Conrad's new preface -- The little house -- Tadpoles -- Magic in Salamis -- Consider the commuter -- The pemanence of poetry -- Books of the sea -- Fallacious meditations on criticism -- Letting out the furnace -- By the fireplace -- A city note-book -- Thoughts in the subway -- Dempsey vs. carpentier -- A letter to a sea captain. |
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