CONTENTS

CONTENTS

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 Chit-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--
I. MR. WORDSWORTH AND THE LITTLE COTTAGE GIRL
II. HOW TENNYSON KILLED THE MAY QUEEN
III. OLD MR. LONGFELLOW ON BOARD THE "HESPERUS"

A, B, and C