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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Answers to Correspondents

How I Edited an Agricultural Paper

On Keeping a Journal

The “Quaker City” in a Storm

The Beautiful Stranger

Tangier

American Beauties

An Early Memory

At the Ambrosian Library

Our Need of Repose

Venice

At Pisa

Christian Persuasion

Taking It Out of the Guides

A Surfeit of Art

At Pompeii

Fame

Athens from the Acropolis

Constantinople

Turkish Journalism

The Camel

At Noah’s Tomb

Damascus

At Banias

A Healer in Palestine

The Bible

Galilee at Night

Distance in the East

A Pleasant Incident

Sacred Marvels

At Adam’s Grave

The Wandering Jew

Bedouins

A Smitten Land

The Sphinx

Memories of the Pilgrimage

George Bemis and “The Allen”

The Overland Stage

Morning on the Plains

The Cayote

The Pony Rider

Indian Country

At the Summit of the Rockies

Incidents by the Way

Mormon Beauties

The Alkali Desert

Arrival in Carson City

Lake Tahoe

Selling Out a Mine

Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral

An Abandoned Town

A Hawaiian Temple

A Hawaiian Statesman

Hawaiian Religion

The Crater of Haleakala

Colonel Seller’s Great Idea

Colonel Sellers Lets Himself Out

A Speculation in Whitewash

Tom Falls in Love

Huck

The Pirates’ Island

Tom Learns to Smoke

Describing an Elephant

Wagner

Midnight Entertainment

Foreign Quotations

Reflections on the Ant

Foreign Quotations Again

The Jungfrau

Climbing the Gemmi Pass

Descent of Gemmi Pass

Alp Climbing

The Old Masters

The Permanent Ambition

First Lessons in Piloting

Perplexing Lessons

A Test of Courage

Births of High and Low Degree

The Canty Home

London Bridge

Tom Canty, King

The Little King in Prison

Tom Canty the First

Tom Is Recognized

Meeting the Yankee

The Stranger’s History

The Yankee Reflects

Perfect Government

Maids in Distress

A Knight’s Average

Sixth Century Kingdoms

Nature

Conscience

Government by the People

Prophecy

Hard Work

Still Hope

The Human Race

What We Saw in Bermuda

The Marion Rangers

Joan

The Fairy Tree

Joan Before Rheims

Joan’s Reward

Art

Italian Cigars

The Human Being

The Immortal Race

The C. S. Healer

The Home Product

The Charm of Uncertainty

Her Chief Desire

At Eve’s Grave

William Dean Howells (1905)

MISCELLANEOUS (1905–9)

Making the Oyster

The Fatality of Sequence

Life’s Turning Point

Close of Seventieth Birthday Speech

The Future Life

Religion

The Impartial Friend