| PAGE | |
| An Oxford Symbol | 1 |
| Scapegoats | 7 |
| To a New Yorker a Hundred Years Hence | 12 |
| A Call for the Author | 16 |
| Mr. Pepys’s Christmases | 19 |
| Children as Copy | 25 |
| Hail, Kinsprit! | 30 |
| Round Manhattan Island | 33 |
| The Unknown Citizen | 37 |
| Sir Kenelm Digby | 42 |
| First Impressions of an Amiable Visitor | 58 |
| In Honorem: Martha Washington | 63 |
| According to Hoyle | 67 |
| L. E. W. | 71 |
| Our Extension Course | 75 |
| Some Recipes | 78 |
| Adventures of a Curricular Engineer | 82 |
| Santayana in the Subway | 87 |
| Madonna of the Taxis | 95 |
| Matthew Arnold and Exodontia | 99 |
| Dame Quickly and the Boilroaster | 109 |
| Vacationing with De Quincey | 114 |
| The Spanish Sultry | 132 |
| What Kind of a Dog? | 137 |
| A Letter from Gissing | 140 |
| July 8, 1822 | 143 |
| Midsummer in Salamis | 148 |
| The Story of Ginger Cubes | 153 |
| The Editor at the Ball Game | 183 |
| The Dame Explores Westchester | 191 |
| The Power and the Glory | 197 |
| Gissing Joins a Country Club | 202 |
| Three Stars on the Back Stoop | 208 |
| A Christmas Card | 213 |
| Symbols and Paradoxes | 218 |
| The Return to Town | 223 |
| Maxims and Minims | 228 |
| Two Reviews | 262 |
| Buddha on the L | 271 |
| Intellectuals and Roughnecks | 279 |
| The Fun of Writing | 288 |
| A Christmas Soliloquy | 291 |