CONTENTS

BEHIND THE BEYOND[11]
FAMILIAR INCIDENTS
I. With the Photographer[53]
II. The Dentist and the Gas[61]
III. My Lost Opportunities[69]
IV. My Unknown Friend[74]
V. Under the Barber's Knife[84]
PARISIAN PASTIMES
I. The Advantages of a Polite Education [93]
II. The Joys of Philanthropy[104]
III. The Simple Life in Paris[117]
IV. A Visit to Versailles[129]
V. Paris at Night[143]
THE RETROACTIVE EXISTENCE OF MR. JUGGINS[159]
MAKING A MAGAZINE[169]
HOMER AND HUMBUG[185]


ILLUSTRATIONS

The Prologue[Frontispiece]
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The curtain rises[12]
Their expression is stamped with deep thought[28]
He kisses her on the bare shoulder[30]
He takes her in his arms[50]
"Is it me?"[58]
I did go—I kept the appointment[66]
He showed me a church that I could have bought for a hundred thousand[72]
I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever[84]
When he reached my face he looked searchingly at it[88]
The tailor shrugged his shoulders[98]
Something in the quiet dignity of the young man held me[114]
The Parisian dog[120]
Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit[142]
The lady's face is aglow with moral enthusiasm[146]
Meanwhile he had become a quaint-looking elderly man[166]
With all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features[174]

BEHIND THE BEYOND