- 1I — The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way of Introduction
- 2II — A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth
- 3III — Sclerosis of the Tastes
- 4IV — The Practices and Precepts of Vaudeville
- 5V — Intimations of Italian Opera
- 6VI — The Superiority of Our Inferiors
- 7VII — Unimportance of Women in Republics
- 8VIII — Having Just Got Home
- 9IX — New York To the Home-comer’s Eye
- 10X — Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth
- 11XI — Ways and Means of Living in New York
- 12XII — The Quality of Boston and the Quantity of New York
- 13XIII — The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles
- 14XIV — The Magazine Muse
- 15XV — Comparative Luxuries of Travel
- 16XVI — Qualities Without Defects
- 17XVII — A Wasted Opportunity
- 18XVIII — A Niece’s Literary Advice To Her Uncle
- 19XIX — A Search for Celebrity
- 20XX — Practical Immortality on Earth
- 21XXI — Around a Rainy-day Fire
- 22XXII — The Advantages of Quotational Criticism
- 23XXIII — Reading for a Grandfather
- 24XXIV — Some Moments With the Muse
- 25XXV — A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work
- 26Other Essays
- 27II — Personal and Epistolary Addresses
- 28III — Dressing for Hotel Dinner
- 29IV — The Counsel of Literary Age to Literary Youth
- 30V — The Unsatisfactoriness of Unfriendly Criticism
- 31VI — The Fickleness of Age
- 32VII — The Renewal of Inspiration
- 33VIII — The Summer Sojourn of Florindo and Lindora
- 34IX — To Have the Honor of Meeting
- 35X — A Day at Bronx Park
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