The Ways of Men

"Uncle Sam" -- Domestic despots -- Cyrano, Rostand, Coquelin -- Machine-made men -- Parnassus -- Modern architecture -- Worldly color-blindness -- Idling in mid-ocean -- "Climbers" in England -- Calve at Cabrieres -- A cry for fresh air -- The Paris of our grandparents -- Some American husbands -- "Carolus" -- The grand opera fad -- The poetic cabarets of Paris -- Etiquette at home and abroad -- What is "Art"? -- The genealogical craze -- As the twig is bent -- Seven small duchesses -- Growing old ungracefully -- Around a spring -- The better part -- La Comedie Francaise a Orange -- Pre-palatial Newport -- Sardou at Marly-le-Roy -- Inconsistencies -- Modern "Cadets de Gascogne" -- The dinner and the drama -- The modern Aspasia -- A nation in a hurry -- The spirit of history.