Cortlandt Van Bibber, a wealthy and unflappable young New Yorker, saunters through comic-opera first nights, the races, a Christmas recruit’s loneliness and a hungry man’s dinner. Other sketches follow chorus girls, a boxer named Hefty Burke, a swimmer of the East River and lovers reunited.
Light, urbane stories of 1890s Manhattan from the most famous reporter of his generation. Download the free EPUB.