Publisher's Note:

The Yale University Press makes grateful
acknowledgment to the Editors of the
Unpopular Review and The Century Magazine
for permission to include in the
present volume, essays of which they were
the original publishers.

To Minerva, my Wife.

Contents.

I. [The Chimney-Pots][11]
II. [The Quest of the Lost Digamma][19]
III. [On a Rainy Morning][35]
IV. ["1917"][43]
V. [On Going Afoot][47]
VI. [On Livelihoods][68]
VII. [The Tread of the Friendly Giants][79]
VIII. [On Spending a Holiday][89]
IX. [Runaway Studies][109]
X. [On Turning into Forty][117]
XI. [On the Difference between Wit and Humor][128]
XII. [On Going to a Party][136]
XIII. [On a Pair of Leather Suspenders][146]
XIV. [Boots for Runaways][159]
XV. [On Hanging a Stocking at Christmas][169]

The Chimney-Pots.