New York, 1921.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Foreword [vii]
[I]The Hotel Guest [13]
[II]A Humorist Misfits at a MurderTrial[28]
[III]Queer Thing, 'Bout Undertakers'Shops[36]
[IV]The Haircut that Went to MyHead[46]
[V]Seeing Mr. Chesterton[55]
[VI]When is a Great City a SmallVillage?[72]
[VII]The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia[81]
[VIII]Our Last Social Engagement as aFine Art[90]
[IX]Writing in Rooms[99]
[X]Taking the Air in San Francisco[115]
[XI]Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye[124]
[XII]No System at all to the HumanSystem[141]
[XIII]Seeing the "Situations Wanted"Scene[151]
[XIV]Literary Lives[162]
[XV]So Very Theatrical[173]
[XVI]Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts[182]
[XVII]Former Tenant of His Room[196]
[XVIII]Only She Was There[205]
[XIX]A Humorist's Note-Book[216]
[XX]Including Studies of Traffic"Cops"[228]
[XXI]Three Words about Literature[236]
[XXII]Recollections of Landladies[242]
[XXIII]An Idiosyncrasy[256]
[XXIV]The Sexless Camera[271]
[XXV]I Know an Editor[276]
[XXVI]A Dip into the Underworld[281]
[XXVII]Nosing 'Round Washington[290]
[XXVIII]Fame: A Story of American Literature[328]

TURNS ABOUT TOWN

CHAPTER I
THE HOTEL GUEST