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Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his characteristic wit.
- Chapters
- The Perfect Reader
- The Autogenesis of a Poet
- The Old Reliable
- In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere
- Adventures at Lunch Time
- Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club
- Initiation
- Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club
- A Preface to the Profession of Journalism
- Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman
- McSorley's
- A Portrait
- Going to Philadelphia
- Our Tricolour Tie
- The Club of Abandoned Husbands
- West Broadway
- The Rudeness of Poets
- 1100 Words
- Some Inns
- The Club in Hoboken
- The Club at Its Worst
- A Suburban Sentimentalist
- Gissing
- A Dialogue
- A Dialogue at the Gasthof zum Ochsene
- Mr. Conrad's New Preface
- The Little House
- Tadpoles
- Magic in Salamis
- Consider the Commuter
- The Permanence of Poetry
- Books of the Sea
- Fallacious Meditations on Criticism
- Letting Out the Furnace
- By the Fireplace
- A City Note-Book
- Thoughts in the Subway
- Dempsey vs. Carpentier
- A Letter to a Sea Captain