Worldly Ways and Byways [electronic resource] / Eliot Gregory

Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection.

Public domain in the USA.

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