Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle

A phrase-book is not necessary. The English language is used on both the Sixth and Ninth Avenue lines, and being equally incomprehensible, cannot be looked up in a dictionary. O...

"Dear Dr. Gunther: The article is altogether admirable. It seems to me that there are just two subjects which never lose their appeal to the average man. One is the food by whic...

Julius Cæsar is said to have been in the habit of dictating to three secretaries simultaneously. How does this compare with the literary productivity of Mr. Arnold Bennett and M...

Charmeuse is a shimmering, silk-like material which lends itself admirably to summer wear, because it stains easily. But in its effect on the shopper's nerves, charmeuse is even...

"A _yashmak_," I replied, meeting her gaze steadily. "I use the word with confidence because I have just looked it up in the dictionary. At first I confused it with _sanjak_, wh...

As for Gilbert and Sullivan's women, I find that even if I were not so near to the end of my chapter, I could not enter upon a discussion of the subject. The field is too vast....

Between the things that must never be different and the things that ought never to be the same, there is a vast class of commodities which may be the same or may be different ac...

From Harold's eyes, I am inclined to think, no wondering soul looks out. The world to him is quite as it should be. Everything fits into its place. Harold does not think it stra...

It is a shifting of the optical laws, of the entire body of physical laws. Pictures are painted to be heard, music is written to be seen, passion is depicted in odours, dancing...

CHAPTER PAGE I ALMA MATER BROADWAY 1 II THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE 8 III SUMMER READING 17 IV NOCTURNE 26 V HAROLD'S SOUL, I 35 VI EDUCATIONAL 44 VII MORGAN 53 VIII THE MODERN INQUI...