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| An Oxford Symbol | [1] |
| Scapegoats | [7] |
| To a New Yorker a Hundred Years Hence | [12] |
| A Call for the Author | [16] |
| Mr. Pepys’s Christmases | [19] |
| Children as Copy | [25] |
| Hail, Kinsprit! | [30] |
| Round Manhattan Island | [33] |
| The Unknown Citizen | [37] |
| Sir Kenelm Digby | [42] |
| First Impressions of an Amiable Visitor | [58] |
| In Honorem: Martha Washington | [63] |
| According to Hoyle | [67] |
| L. E. W. | [71] |
| Our Extension Course | [75] |
| Some Recipes | [78] |
| Adventures of a Curricular Engineer | [82] |
| Santayana in the Subway | [87] |
| Madonna of the Taxis | [95] |
| Matthew Arnold and Exodontia | [99] |
| Dame Quickly and the Boilroaster | [109] |
| Vacationing with De Quincey | [114] |
| The Spanish Sultry | [132] |
| What Kind of a Dog? | [137] |
| A Letter from Gissing | [140] |
| July 8, 1822 | [143] |
| Midsummer in Salamis | [148] |
| The Story of Ginger Cubes | [153] |
| The Editor at the Ball Game | [183] |
| The Dame Explores Westchester | [191] |
| The Power and the Glory | [197] |
| Gissing Joins a Country Club | [202] |
| Three Stars on the Back Stoop | [208] |
| A Christmas Card | [213] |
| Symbols and Paradoxes | [218] |
| The Return to Town | [223] |
| Maxims and Minims | [228] |
| Two Reviews | [262] |
| Buddha on the L | [271] |
| Intellectuals and Roughnecks | [279] |
| The Fun of Writing | [288] |
| A Christmas Soliloquy | [291] |
