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Title: The Patient Observer
And His Friends

Author: Simeon Strunsky

Release Date: September 22, 2006 [eBook #19359]

Language: English

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THE PATIENT OBSERVER

And His Friends

by

SIMEON STRUNSKY

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1911
Copyright, 1910, by The Evening Post Company
Copyright, 1910, by P. F. Collier & Son
Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers
Copyright, 1910, by The Atlantic Monthly Co.
Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead and Company

To

_M. G. S._

CONTENTS

I Cowards Page 1

II The Church Universal 10

III The Doctors 19

IV Interrogation 29

V The Mind Triumphant 37

VI On Calling White Black 45

VII The Solid Flesh 57

VIII Some Newspaper Traits 67

IX A Fledgling 80

X The Complete Collector--I 92

XI The Everlasting Feminine 100

XII The Fantastic Toe 111

XIII On Living in Brooklyn 119

XIV Palladino Outdone 130

XV The Cadence of the Crowd 138

XVI What We Forget 147

XVII The Children That Lead Us 159

XVIII The Martians 179

XIX The Complete Collector--II 189

XX When a Friend Marries 198

XXI The Perfect Union of the Arts 209

XXII An Emin