THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to all those human beings, who, like myself, have come under the spell of that will-o'-the-wisp, Die Ferne, the disappearing and fading Beyond, and who, like myself again, are doomed sooner or later to see the folly of their quest, Die Ferne receding meanwhile farther and farther away from their vision. "It is the way of the World," says the Philosopher. That my fellow dupes in the fruitless chase may all become sweet-natured philosophers in the end, is my earnest wish and prayer.

CONTENTS

[Introduction—By Arthur Symons]
[Foreword]
I[Earliest Reminiscences]
II[Youthful Days at Evanston]
III[Rest Cottage]
IV[Early College Days]
V[My First Imprisonment]
VI[In a Reform School]
VII[Early Tramping Experiences]
VIII[My Voyage to Europe]
IX[Unter Den Linden]
X[Berlin University]
XI[Wanderings in Germany]
XII[A Visit to London]
XIII[The Bloomsbury Guards]
XIV[Some London Acquaintances]
XV[Two Tramping Experiences]
XVI[Switzerland and Italy]
XVII[A Visit to Tolstoy]
XVIII[Some Anecdotes of Tolstoy]
XIX[I Meet General Kuropatkin]
XX[In St. Petersburg]
XXI[I Return to America]
XXII[New York Again]
XXIII[Railroad Experiences]
XXIV[Trying to Live by My Pen]
XXV[With the Powers That Prey]
XXVI[Honor Among Thieves So Called]
[Josiah Flynt—An Appreciation—By Alfred Hodder]
[Josiah Flynt—An Impression—By Emily M. Burbank]
[A Final Word—By Bannister Merwin]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Josiah Flynt]
[The Boy—Josiah Flynt]
[Oliver Atherton Willard]
[Madam Willard]
[Frances E. Willard]
[Josiah Flynt, in his "garb of the road," while tramping in Russia]