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1. BOOKISH
   1. A Pessimistic View 1
   2. The Master’s Pen—A Confession 3
   3. Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast) 5
   4. Ideas for Sale 8
   5. The Author’s Boomerang 11
   6. To an Egotistical Biographer 12
   7. No Copyright Needed 13
   8. Ingredients of Greatness 14
   9. A Common Favorite 15
   10. Their Pens 17
   11. An Unsolved Problem 18
   12. The Bibliophile’s Threat 19
   13. My Treasures 20
   14. A Poet’s Fad 21
   15. The Poet Undone 22
   16. A Waning Muse 23
   17. Modesty 24
   18. My Lord the Book 25
   19. The Bibliomiser 26
   20. The “Collector” 27
   21. A Reader 28
   22. Fate! 29
   23. A Pleasing Thought 30
   24. Books vs. “Books,” by a Bibliomaniac 31
   25. A Confession 33
   26. The Edition de Looks 35
2. WISE AND OTHERWISE
   1. Napolini’s Error 41
   2. My Color 45
   3. Contentment in Nature 47
   4. The Heroic Gunner 49
   5. The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy 52
   6. Garrulous Wisdom 56
   7. The Perjury of a Rejected Lover 58
   8. Maid of Culture 59
   9. Not Perfect 60
   10. A City Dweller’s Wish 61
   11. Where are They? 62
   12. Memories 64
   13. A Sad State 65
   14. Ad Astra per Otium. 66
   15. Consolation 67
   16. Satisfaction on Reading “Not One Dissatisfied,” by Walt Whitman 68
   17. To a Withered Rose 70
   18. The Worst of Enemies 71
   19. Jokes of the Night 72
   20. An Autumnal Romance 75
   21. The Country in July 76
   22. May 30, 1893 78
   23. The Curse of Wealth 80
   24. The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist 83
   25. One of the Nameless Great 86
   26. In February Days 87
   27. A Change of Ambition 89
   28. Message from Mahatmas 91
   29. The Gold-seekers 95
   30. Ode to a Politician 98
   31. Some are Amateurs 101