Seeing Things at Night

A collection of essays by journalist, political activist Heywood Broun. Contents: The Fifty-First Dragon; How to Be a Lion Tamer; H.G. Wells of England; Promises and Contracts and Clocks; Alcoholic Liquors; Some of My Best Friends Are Yale Men; Bacillus and Circumstance; Death Says It Isn't So; The Library of a Lover; A Bolt from the Blue; Inasmuch; H. 3d-The Review of a Continuous Performance; Southpaws; Michael; Buying a Farm; Romance and Reticence; A Robe for the King; Turning Thirty; Margaret Fuller; Holding a Baby; Red Magic; The Last Trump; Spanking Manners; Park Row and Fleet Street; Merrick's Women; Just Around the Corner; Reform Through Reading; Shush!; A Test for the Critics; Gray Gods and Green Goddesses; The Cosmic Kid; A Jung Man's Fancy; Deburau; and A Reviewer's Notebook.