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e New York Evening Post, Inc. Copyright, 1920, by the Outlook Company Copyright, 1921, By the Atlantic Monthly Company
Printed at Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A.
First Edition
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BOOKS BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP SHANDYGAFF MINCE PIE PIPEFULS KATHLEEN TALES FROM A ROLLTOP DESK SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE THE ROCKING HORSE HIDE AND SEEK CHIMNEYSMOKE TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA PLUM PUDDING
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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
DAVID WILLIAM BONE DON MARQUIS SIMEON STRUNSKY
MEMBERS OF THE THREE HOURS FOR LUNCH CLUB
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Almost all these sketches were originally published in the New York Evening Post and the Literary Review. One comes from The Outlook, one from The Atlantic Monthly, one from the Haverford Alumni Quarterly, and one from the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. The author is indebted to these publishers for permission to reprint.
Roslyn, Long Island July, 1921
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CONTENTS
The Perfect Reader
The Autogenesis of a Poet
The Old Reliable
In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere
Adventures at Lunch Time
Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club
Initiation
Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club
A Preface to the Profession of Journalism
Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman
McSorley's
A Portrait
Going to Philadelphia
Our Tricolour Tie
The Club of Abandoned Husbands
West Broadway
The Rudeness of Poets
1100 Words
Some Inns
The Club in Hoboken
The Club at Its Worst
A Suburban Sentimentalist
Gissing
A Dialogue
At the Gasthof zum Ochsen
Mr. Conrad's New Preface
The Little House
Tadpoles
Magic in Salamis
Consider the Commuter
The Permanence of Poetry
Books of the Sea<