Transcribed from the 1900 Charles Scribner’s sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE WAYS OF MEN

by
Eliot Gregory
(“An Idler”)
Author ofWorldly Ways and Byways.”

new york
Charles Scribner’s Sons
MCM

Copyright, 1900, by Charles Scribner’s Sons

D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston

to
Edith Wharton

“I have not lacked thy mild reproof,
Nor golden largess of thy praise.”

CHAPTER 1—“Uncle Sam