The Patient Observer and His Friends

CONTENTS

I	Cowards	Page 1
II	The Church Universal	10
III	The Doctors	19
IV	Interrogation	29
V	The Mind Triumphant	37
VI	On Calling White Black	45
VII	The Solid Flesh	57
VIII	Some Newspaper Traits	67
IX	A Fledgling	80
X	The Complete Collector—I	92
XI	The Everlasting Feminine	100
XII	The Fantastic Toe	111
XIII	On Living in Brooklyn	119
XIV	Palladino Outdone	130
XV	The Cadence of the Crowd	138
XVI	What We Forget	147
XVII	The Children That Lead Us	159
XVIII	The Martians	179
XIX	The Complete Collector—II	189
XX	When a Friend Marries	198
XXI	The Perfect Union of the Arts	209
XXII	An Eminent American	216
XXIII	Behind the Times	227
XXIV	Public Liars	238
XXV	The Complete Collector—III	249
XXVI	The Commuter	257
XXVII	Headlines	270
XXVIII	Usage	278
XXIX	60 H.P.	285
XXX	The Sample Life	296
XXXI	The Complete Collector—IV	313
XXXII	Chopin's Successors	320
XXXIII	The Irrepressible Conflict	327
XXXIV	The Germs of Culture	336

NOTE

Of the papers that go to make up the present volume, the greater number were published as a series in the columns of the New York Evening Post for 1910, under the general title of The Patient Observer. For the eminently laudable purpose of making a fairly thick book, the Patient Observer's frequently recurrent "I," "me," and "mine" have now been supplemented with the experiences and reflections of his friends Harrington, Cooper, and Harding as recorded on other occasions in the New York Evening Post, as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, the Bookman, Collier's, and Harper's Weekly.

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