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Title: Worldly Ways and Byways
Author: Eliot Gregory
Release Date: April 5, 2007 [eBook #379]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1899 Charles Scribner's Sons edition by David Price,
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Worldly
Ways
&
Byways
BY
Eliot Gregory
("_An Idler_")
NEW YORK
_Charles Scribner's Sons_
MDCCCXCIX
_Copyright_, 1898, _by_
_Charles Scribner's Sons_
To
_E. L. Godkin, Esqre_.
SIR:
I wish your name to appear on the first page of a volume, the composition
of which was suggested by you.
Gratitude is said to be "the hope of favors to come;" these lines are
written to prove that it may be the appreciation of kindnesses received.
_Heartily yours_
_Eliot Gregory_
A Table of Contents
_To the R E A D E R_
1. Charm
2. The Moth and the Star
3. Contrasted Travelling
4. The Outer and the Inner Woman
5. On Some Gilded Misalliances
6. The Complacency of Mediocrity
7. The Discontent of Talent
8. Slouch
9. Social Suggestion
10. Bohemia
11. Social Exiles
12. "Seven Ages" of Furniture
13. Our Elite and Public Life
14. The Small Summer Hotel
15. A False Start
16. A Holy Land
17. Royalty at Play
18. A Rock Ahead
19. The Grand Prix
20. "The Treadmill"
21. "Like Master Like Man"
22. An English Invasion of the Riviera
23. A Common Weakness
24. Changing Paris
25. Contentment
26. The Climber
27. The Last of the Dandies
28. A Nation on the Wing
29. Husks
30. The Faubourg St. Germain
31. Men's Manners
32. An Ideal Hostess
33. The Introducer
34. A Question and an Answer
35. Living on Your Friends
36. American Society in Italy
37. The Newport of the Past
38. A Conquest of Europe
39. A Race of Slaves
40. Introspection
To the Reader
There existed formerly, in diplomatic circles, a curious custom, since
fallen into disuse, entitled the Pele Mele, contrived doubtless by some
distracted Master of Ceremoni
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