New Brooms

by Robert J. Shores

CONTENTS

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I	A Philosophical Cook	[1]
II	A Bachelor on Women	[16]
III	On Pensioning Writers	[20]
IV	A Puritan in Bohemia	[27]
V	An Arraignment of Originality	[42]
VI	A Flattering Tribute	[51]
VII	The Riddle of a Dream	[53]
VIII	Beds for the Bad	[61]
IX	Is Chesterton a Man Alive?	[69]
X	From a Hunchback	[77]
XI	From a Hotel Sponge	[89]
XII	From Sarah Shelfworn	[96]
XIII	From Anna Pest	[104]
XIV	From Seth Shirtless	[110]
XV	Sartor-Psychology	[118]
XVI	Mr. Body Protests	[126]
XVII	On a Certain Condescension in Fashion Writers	[138]
XVIII	Of Looking Backward	[146]
XIX	The Literary Life	[155]
XX	The Poetic License	[162]
XXI	The Necessity for Beggars	[168]
XXII	The Abuses of Adversity	[173]
XXIII	The Science of Making Enemies	[182]
XXIV	The Fate of Falstaff	[192]
XXV	The Reward of Merit	[202]
XXVI	The Blessings of the Blind	[212]
XXVII	A Tale of a Mad Poet’s Wife	[224]
XXVIII	The Lock-Step	[232]
XXIX	The Fruit of Fame	[250]

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