Copyright, 1899, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

TO
SISTER ANNE

CONTENTS

PAGE

  1. [BOOKISH]
    1. [A Pessimistic View] [1]
    2. [The Master’s Pen—A Confession] [3]
    3. [Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)] [5]
    4. [Ideas for Sale] [8]
    5. [The Author’s Boomerang] [11]
    6. [To an Egotistical Biographer] [12]
    7. [No Copyright Needed] [13]
    8. [Ingredients of Greatness] [14]
    9. [A Common Favorite] [15]
    10. [Their Pens] [17]
    11. [An Unsolved Problem] [18]
    12. [The Bibliophile’s Threat] [19]
    13. [My Treasures] [20]
    14. [A Poet’s Fad] [21]
    15. [The Poet Undone] [22]
    16. [A Waning Muse] [23]
    17. [Modesty] [24]
    18. [My Lord the Book] [25]
    19. [The Bibliomiser] [26]
    20. [The “Collector”] [27]
    21. [A Reader] [28]
    22. [Fate!] [29]
    23. [A Pleasing Thought] [30]
    24. [Books vs. “Books,” by a Bibliomaniac] [31]
    25. [A Confession] [33]
    26. [The Edition de Looks] [35]
  2. [WISE AND OTHERWISE]
    1. [Napolini’s Error] [41]
    2. [My Color] [45]
    3. [Contentment in Nature] [47]
    4. [The Heroic Gunner] [49]
    5. [The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy] [52]
    6. [Garrulous Wisdom] [56]
    7. [The Perjury of a Rejected Lover] [58]
    8. [Maid of Culture] [59]
    9. [Not Perfect] [60]
    10. [A City Dweller’s Wish] [61]
    11. [Where are They?] [62]
    12. [Memories] [64]
    13. [A Sad State] [65]
    14. [Ad Astra per Otium.] [66]
    15. [Consolation] [67]
    16. [Satisfaction on Reading “Not One Dissatisfied,” by Walt Whitman] [68]
    17. [To a Withered Rose] [70]
    18. [The Worst of Enemies] [71]
    19. [Jokes of the Night] [72]
    20. [An Autumnal Romance] [75]
    21. [The Country in July] [76]
    22. [May 30, 1893] [78]
    23. [The Curse of Wealth] [80]
    24. [The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist] [83]
    25. [One of the Nameless Great] [86]
    26. [In February Days] [87]
    27. [A Change of Ambition] [89]
    28. [Message from Mahatmas] [91]
    29. [The Gold-seekers] [95]
    30. [Ode to a Politician] [98]
    31. [Some are Amateurs] [101]

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