Cortlandt Van Bibber, rich, idle and good-natured, has a way of stepping into other people’s troubles in the New York of the 1890s. In four short stories he rescues a child actress on a comic opera’s first night, copes with a servant, feeds a hungry man in his own fashion and proves that loving a woman means loving her dog.
Light, stylish sketches by the reporter who created the type of the man-about-town gentleman hero. Download the free EPUB.