The Observations of Professor Maturin

by Clyde Furst

The Observations of Professor Maturin

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The Observations of
Professor Maturin
By
Clyde Furst

New York
Columbia University Press
1916
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Copyright, 1916, by Columbia University Press
Printed March, 1916
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Reprinted, by permission, from
The New York Evening Post
D. B. Updike · The Merrymount Press · Boston

Dedicated to
Professor Maturin’s
Oldest and Best Friend
R. E. M.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Staff of Life	[ 3]
II.	The Sindbad Society	[ 17]
III.	Foreign Travel at Home	[ 25]
IV.	Country Life	[ 35]
V.	Food for Thought	[ 44]
VI.	Beside the Sea	[ 54]
VII.	Christmas	[ 65]
VIII.	The Sovran Herb	[ 75]
IX.	Men’s Faces	[ 85]
X.	Mental Hygiene	[ 94]
XI.	The Mystery of Dress	[ 109]
XII.	Questions at Issue	[ 117]
XIII.	The Fountain of Youth	[ 122]
XIV.	The Contemporary Fiction Company	[ 130]
XV.	The Old Doctor	[ 137]
XVI.	Breakfasting with Portia	[ 147]
XVII.	Summer Science	[ 157]
XVIII.	Measuring the Mind	[ 168]
XIX.	The Club of the Bachelor Maids	[ 183]
XX.	A Small College	[ 192]
XXI.	Old Town Revisited	[ 202]
XXII.	The County Fair	[ 215]