| Description |
xii pages, 1 leaf, 304 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
On Oxford symbol -- Scapegoats -- To a New Yorker a hundred years hence -- A call for the author -- Mr. Pepys's Christmases -- Children as copy -- Hail, kinsprit! -- Round Manhattan Island -- Unknown citizen -- Sir Kenelm Digby -- First impressions of an amiable visitor -- In honorem: Martha Washington -- According to Hoyle -- L.E.W. -- Our extension course -- Some recipes -- Adventures of a curricular engineer -- Santayana in the subway -- Madonna of the taxis -- Matthew Arnold and Exodonita -- Dame Quickly and the boilroaster -- Vacationing with De Quincey -- Spanish sultry -- What kind of dog? -- A letter from Gissing -- July 8, 1822 -- Midsummer in Salamis -- Story of ginger cubes -- Editor at the ball game -- Dame explores Westchester -- Power and the glory -- Gissing joins a country club -- Three stars on the back stoop -- A Christmas card -- Symbols and paradoxes -- Return to town -- Maxims and minims -- Two reviews -- Buddha on the L -- Intellectuals and roughnecks -- Fun of writing -- A Christmas soliloquy. |
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