Chapter LI: A Thrifty Poet's Plan--Mr. Bryant and the Poe

Article--The Longfellow Incident--The Tupper
Embarrassment 205

LII. Mr Bryant's _Index Expurgatorius_--An Effective
Blunder in English--Mr. Bryant's Dignified
Democracy--Mr. Cleveland's Coarser Method--Mr.
Bryant and British Snobbery 209

LIII. The Newspaper Critic's Function--A Literary News
"Beat"--Mr. Bryant and Contemporary Poets--Concerning
Genius--The True Story of "Thanatopsis" 217

LIV. An Extraordinary Case of Heterophemy--The Demolition
of a Critic 222

LV. Parke Godwin--"A Lion in a Den of Daniels"--The
Literary Shop Again--Literary Piracy--British
and American 227

LVI. The Way of Washington Officials--A Historical
Discovery--A Period Out of Place--A Futile Effort
to Make Peace--The "Intelligent Compositor" at His
Worst--Loring Pacha--War Correspondents--The Tourist
Correspondent--Loring's Story of Experience 234

LVII. "A Stranded Gold Bug"--Results of a Bit of Humor 247

LVIII. Mrs. Custer's "Boots and Saddles"--The Success
and Failure of Books 252

LIX. Letters of Introduction--The Disappointment of Lily
Browneyes--Mark Twain's Method--Some Dangerous Letters
of Introduction--Moses and My Green Spectacles 255

LX. English Literary Visitors--Mr. Edmund Gosse's
Visit--His Amusing Misconceptions--A Question of
Provincialism--A Literary Vandal 265

LXI. The Founding of the Authors' Club--Reminiscences
of Early Club Life--John Hay and Edwin Booth on
Dime Novels 272

LXII. The Authors Club--Its Ways and Its Work--Watch-Night
Frolics--Max O'Rell and Mark Twain--The Reckless
Injustice of the Humorists--Bishop Potter's
Opinion--The Club's Contribution of Statesmen and
Diplomats--The Delight of the Authors Club "After
the Authors Have Gone Home"--"Liber Scriptorum,"
the Club's Successful Publishing Venture 277

LXIII. In Newspaper Life Again--Editing the _Commercial
Advertiser_--John Bigelow's Discouraging
Opinion--Henry Marquand and Some of My
Brilliant "Cubs"--Men Who Have Made Place and
Name for Themselves--The Dread Task of the
Editor-in-Chief--Yachting with Marquand and the
Men I Met on Deck--Parke Godwin--Recollections of
a Great and Good Man--A Mystery of Forgetting 286

LXIV. Newspapers Then and Now--The Pulitzer Revolution--The
Lure of the _World_--A Little Dinner to James R.
Osgood 300

LXV. Service on the _World_--John A. Cockerill--An
Editorial Perplexity--Editorial Emergencies--In
Praise of the Printers--Donn Piatt--"A Syndicate
of Blackguards"--An Unmeant Crime 307

LXVI. First Acquaintance with Joseph Pulitzer--His
Hospitality, Courtesy, Kindliness, and Generosity--His
Intellectual Methods--The Maynard Case--Bryan's
Message and Mr. Pulitzer's Answer--Extraordinary
Political Foresight 319