| | | PAGE | | | Preface | vii | | | On Making Friends | 3 | | | Thoughts on Cider | 10 | | | One-Night Stands | 18 | | | The Owl Train | 25 | | | Safety Pins | 29 | | | Confessions of a “Colyumist” | 34 | | | Moving | 42 | | | Surf Fishing | 48 | | | “Idolatry” | 52 | | | The First Commencement Address | 60 | | | The Downfall of George Snipe | 63 | | | Meditations of a Bookseller | 66 | | | If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House | 71 | | | Adventures in High Finance | 74 | | | On Visiting Bookshops | 78 | | | A Discovery | 83 | | | Silas Orrin Howes | 91 | | | Joyce Kilmer | 97 | | Tales of Two Cities | | 109 | | I. | Philadelphia: | | | An Early Train | | | Ridge Avenue | | | The University and the Urchin | | | Pine Street | | | Pershing in Philadelphia | | | Fall Fever | | | Two Days Before Christmas | | | In West Philadelphia | | | Horace Traubel | | II. | New York: | | 163 | | |
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