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Front matter

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CORNELL

UNIVERSITY

Contents

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Gossips and Fantasies

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II Here, There, and Somewhere Else: Philosophic Excursions

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I. Aberdeen 255

II. Antwerp 257

III. Broadstairs and Bamsgate 265

IV. Budapest 271

V. Chicago . . 287

VI. Edinburgh 289

VII. Fiesole and Florence ...... 294

VIII. Glasgow 299

IX. Haslemeke 305

XI. Slapton Sands 317

XII. Venice 321

XIII. Ventnor . 338

XIV. Somewhere Else . . . . 339

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Afterthoughts : A Bundle of Brevities . . 343

Moonshine Q. E. D. Novels

Capital The Mouse who Died

Credit Theologic Novels

The Small Boy Mudie Measure

A Day us Town The Prop of Letters

The Profession of Charity The Latter-Day Poet

The Privileges of Poverty An Attack of Alliteration

Salvation for the Seraphim The Humorous

Truth — Local and Temporal The Discount Farce

The Creed of Despair The Franchise Farce

Social Bugbears The Modern War Farce

Martyrs Fireworks

The London Season Time's Forelock

The Academy Diaries

Portraits of Gentlemen "Looking Backward"

Photography and Realism Long Lives

The Great Unhung Vive La Mort!

The Abolition of Catalogues Men and Bookmen

The Artistic Temperament James I. on Tobacco

Professional Ethics A Counterblast to James I.

Lay Confessors Valedictory

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