The Patient Observer and His Friends - Simeon Strunsky

To
M. G. S.

I	Cowards	Page [1]
II	The Church Universal	[10]
III	The Doctors	[19]
IV	Interrogation	[29]
V	The Mind Triumphant	[37]
VI	On Calling White Black	[45]
VII	The Solid Flesh	[57]
VIII	Some Newspaper Traits	[67]
IX	A Fledgling	[80]
X	The Complete Collector—I	[92]
XI	The Everlasting Feminine	[100]
XII	The Fantastic Toe	[111]
XIII	On Living in Brooklyn	[119]
XIV	Palladino Outdone	[130]
XV	The Cadence of the Crowd	[138]
XVI	What We Forget	[147]
XVII	The Children That Lead Us	[159]
XVIII	The Martians	[179]
XIX	The Complete Collector—II	[189]
XX	When a Friend Marries	[198]
XXI	The Perfect Union of the Arts	[209]
XXII	An Eminent American	[216]
XXIII	Behind the Times	[227]
XXIV	Public Liars	[238]
XXV	The Complete Collector—III	[249]
XXVI	The Commuter	[257]
XXVII	Headlines	[270]
XXVIII	Usage	[278]
XXIX	60 H.P.	[285]
XXX	The Sample Life	[296]
XXXI	The Complete Collector—IV	[313]
XXXII	Chopin's Successors	[320]
XXXIII	The Irrepressible Conflict	[327]
XXXIV	The Germs of Culture	[336]

NOTE

Of the papers that go to make up the present volume, the greater number were published as a series in the columns of the New York Evening Post for 1910, under the general title of The Patient Observer. For the eminently laudable purpose of making a fairly thick book, the Patient Observer's frequently recurrent "I," "me," and "mine" have now been supplemented with the experiences and reflections of his friends Harrington, Cooper, and Harding as recorded on other occasions in the New York Evening Post, as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, the Bookman, Collier's, and Harper's Weekly.

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