Chapter XLV: A Disappointed Author--George Ripley's Collection

of Applications for His Discharge--Joe Harper's
Masterpiece--Manuscripts and Their Authors--Mr. George
P. Putnam's Story 166

XLVI. Joaquin Miller--Dress Reform a la Stedman 172

XLVII. Beginnings of Newspaper Illustration--Accident's Part
in the Literary Life--My First Boys' Book--How One
Thing Leads to Another 179

XLVIII. The First Time I Was Ever Robbed--The _Evening
Post_ Under Mr. Bryant--An Old-Fashioned Newspaper--Its
Distinguished Outside Staff--Its Regard for
Literature--Newspaper Literary Criticism and the
Critics of That Time--Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Idea
of New York as a Place of Residence--My Own
Appointment and the Strange Manner of It 186