PLUM PUDDING

Of divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

By Christopher Morley

And merrily embellished by WALTER JACK DUNCAN

Printed at GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO'Y and are to be sold by All Worthy Booksellers, together with OTHER WORKS by the Same Author, thus modestly offered to your Attention

1921

copyright, 1910, by public ledger company
copyright, 1920, 1921, by the new york evening post, inc.
copyright, 1920, by the outlook company
copyright, 1921, by the atlantic monthly company

printed at garden city, n.y., u.s.a.

First Edition

books by
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Parnassus on Wheels
The Haunted Bookshop
Shandygaff
Mince Pie
Pipefuls
Kathleen
Tales from a Rolltop Desk
Songs for a Little House
The Rocking Horse
Hide and Seek
Chimneysmoke
Travels in Philadelphia
Plum Pudding

this book is dedicated
to

DAVID WILLIAM BONE
DON MARQUIS
SIMEON STRUNSKY

members of the
three hours for lunch club

Almost all these sketches were originally published in the New York Evening Post and the Literary Review. One comes from The Outlook, one from The Atlantic Monthly, one from the Haverford Alumni Quarterly, and one from the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. The author is indebted to these publishers for permission to reprint.

Roslyn, Long Island
July, 1921

The Perfect Reader	[1]
The Autogenesis of a Poet	[5]
The Old Reliable	[19]
In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere	[23]
Adventures at Lunch Time	[30]
Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club	[36]
Initiation	[42]
Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club	[47]
A Preface to the Profession of Journalism	[51]
Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman	[57]
McSorley's	[63]
A Portrait	[69]
Going to Philadelphia	[73]
Our Tricolour Tie	[86]
The Club of Abandoned Husbands	[95]
West Broadway	[100]
The Rudeness of Poets	[106]
1100 Words	[110]
Some Inns	[115]
The Club in Hoboken	[124]
The Club at Its Worst	[129]
A Suburban Sentimentalist	[133]
Gissing	[138]
A Dialogue	[143]
At the Gasthof zum Ochsen	[147]
Mr. Conrad's New Preface	[151]
The Little House	[155]
Tadpoles	[158]
Magic in Salamis	[162]
Consider the Commuter	[167]
The Permanence of Poetry	[178]
Books of the Sea	[182]
Fallacious Meditations on Criticism	[192]
Letting Out the Furnace	[202]
By the Fireplace	[206]
A City Note-Book	[210]
Thoughts in the Subway	[229]
Dempsey vs. Carpentier	[234]
A Letter to a Sea Captain	[239]

PLUM PUDDING

CONTENTS