CONTENTS
LITERARY LAPSES
My Financial Career
Lord Oxhead's Secret
Boarding-House Geometry
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
A Christmas Letter
How to Make a Million Dollars
How to Live to be 200
How to Avoid Getting Married
How to be a Doctor
The New Food
A New Pathology
The Poet Answered
The Force of Statistics
Men Who have Shaved Me
Getting the Thread of It
Telling His Faults
Winter Pastimes
Number Fifty-Six
Aristocratic Education
The Conjurer's Revenge
Hints to Travellers
A Manual of Education
Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
The Life of John Smith
On Collecting Things
Society Chat-Chat
Insurance up to Date
Borrowing a Match
A Lesson in Fiction
Helping the Armenians
A Study in Still Life.—The Country Hotel
An Experiment With Policeman Hogan
The Passing of the Poet
Self-made Men
A Model Dialogue
Back to the Bush
Reflections on Riding
Saloonio
Half-hours with the Poets
PART I
PART II
PART III
A, B, and C
Acknowledgments
