Part 1

Transcribed from the 1899 Charles Scribner's Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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