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PREFACE

PEACE, WAR, AND POLITICS

I.—Germany From Within Out

II.—Abdul Aziz Has His An Adventure in the Yildiz Kiosk

III.—In Merry Mexico

IV.—Over the Grape Juice, or, The Peace Makers

V.—The White House from Without In

MOVIES & MOTORS, MEN & WOMEN

VI.—Madeline of the Movies— A Photoplay Done Back Into the Words

VII.—The Call of the Carbureter or Mr. Blinks and His Friends

VIII.—The Two Sexes, In Fives or Sixes—A Dinner Party Study.

IX.—The Grass Bachelor’s Guide. With Sincere Apologies to the Ladies’ Periodicals.

X.—Every Man and His Friends. Mr. Grunch’s Portrait Gallery. (As edited from his private thoughts)

I HIS VIEWS ON HIS EMPLOYER

II THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS

III HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE

IV HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER

V HIS LITTLE SON

XI.—More than Twice Told Tales or Every Man His Own Hero

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II

III

XII.—A Study in Still Life—My Tailor

FOLLIES IN FICTION

XIII.—Stories Shorter Still

I AN IRREDUCIBLE DETECTIVE STORY

II A COMPRESSED OLD ENGLISH NOVEL

III A CONDENSED INTERMINABLE NOVEL

XIV.—The Snoopopaths or Fifty Stories in One

XV.—Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments: Serge the Superman. A Russian Novel. (Translated, with a hand pump, out of the original Russian.)

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

TIMID THOUGHTS ON TIMELY TOPICS

XVI.—Are the Rich Happy?

XVII.—Humor As I See It