TO ANNA WAITT

A TOURIST

CONTENTS

Arcady and Its Environs:Page
Preliminary Information[1]
Topography[4]
Routes[4]
Roads Out of Arcady[8]
Season[11]
Climate[11]
Time[11]
Time’s Valentine[15]
Calendar[19]
The Lay of Lothario Lee[21]
Money[24]
Custom House[24]
Cupid’s Failure[28]
History[29]
An Arcady Girl[31]
Under a New Charter[32]
Arcadia[34]
An Arcadian Lady[38]
Arcady:
Preliminary Ramble[39]
Flora[41]
The Arcadian Language of Flowers[43]
Hotels[44]
Restaurants[45]
Sweet Shops[46]
Heard in Arcady[47]
Dithyramb by an Arcadian Poet[49]
Conveyances[50]
Shops[54]
Cupid’s Sale[55]
Cupid’s Bill[57]
Institutions and Public Buildings:
Places of Interest[58]
Post-Office[58]
The Heart Exchange[61]
The Intercepted Valentine[62]
Banks[62]
The Hospital[62]
The Weather Bureau[65]
The Campo Santo[65]
The Hall of Fame[66]
Ballade of Arcady[67]
Amusements[68]
The Old Story[75]
Language[75]
Some Arcadian Bromidioms[76]
Exercise for the Language Student:
A Very Pretty Quarrel[77]
Degrees of Love[79]
Definitions[79]
The Spelling Lesson[79]
Love in Arcady[80]
Insensibility[81]
Biographical Sketch of Cupid[82]
Political Notes[84]
Arcadian Laws[84]
Costumes[85]
Then and Now[86]
Walks[87]
Old Valentines[91]
Business Section[93]
It Happened in Arcady[94]
Calamitous Catastrophe[101]
Advertisements[103]
Advertisement[113]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Post Office is in the heart of an old hollow oak tree[Frontispiece]
Facing page
Arcadia (Map)[3]
Across the Sea of Dreams in a Transport of Rapture[5]
The troubled waters of the Gulf of Woe[7]
Mountains of Opposition[8]
A radiant Goddess beckoning to him[9]
Many with a greed for lucre will follow the[10]
Goddess of Fortune
’Tis love that makes the world go round[12]
The old clock on the stairs[13]
Sun dials and moon dials are approved as they mark the[17]
bright hours only
Custom House[25]
Arcady and its Environs (Map)[35]
On the water all sorts of boats are used[51]
Cupid’s Heartware Shop[53]
The groves and dells are decorated with beautiful statues[59]
Weather Bureau[63]
The Mayday Plaisance is a large amusement[69]
A Serenader[73]
True lovers’ knots may be bought here[89]
The blissfully enraptured are conducted to sentimental spots[107]
Love proof window screens[114]
Map of the Town of Arcadia[End-leaves]

THE LOVER’S BAEDEKER AND