PREFACE
CONTENTS
IDLING IN ITALY
CHAPTER I LITERARY ITALY
CHAPTER II LITERARY ITALY (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER III GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO POET, PILOT, AND PIRATE
CHAPTER IV THE FUTURIST SCHOOL OF ITALIAN WRITERS
CHAPTER V GIOVANNI PAPINI AND THE FUTURISTIC LITERARY MOVEMENT IN ITALY
CHAPTER VI TWO NOISY ITALIAN SCHOOLMASTERS
CHAPTER VII IMPROVISIONAL ITALIAN LITERATURE OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY
CHAPTER VIII FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER IX THE LITERARY MAUSOLEUM OF SAMUEL BUTLER
CHAPTER X SAINTS AND SINNERS
CHAPTER XI WOMAN'S CAUSE IS MAN'S: THEY RISE OR SINK TOGETHER ...
CHAPTER XII POSTBELLUM VAGARIES
CHAPTER XIII WORLD CONVALESCENCE
CHAPTER XIV BANQUETS AND PERSONALITIES
CHAPTER XV SENTIMENTALITY AND THE MALE
CHAPTER XVI THE PLAY INSTINCT IN CHILDREN
CHAPTER XVII "IF A MAN WALKETH IN THE NIGHT, HE STUMBLETH BUT
CHAPTER XVIII THE AMERICAN EAGLE CHANGES HIS PERCH
STUDIES OF LITERATURE AND OF LIFE
BY JOSEPH COLLINS
AUTHOR OF "MY ITALIAN YEAR"
I loaf and invite my soul
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1920
Copyright, 1920, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published September, 1920
TO M. K. C.
... Io vengo di lontana parte, Dov'era lo tuo cuor.
