Chapter IX: A Fledgling 80

X The Complete Collector--I 92

XI The Everlasting Feminine 100

XII The Fantastic Toe 111

XIII On Living in Brooklyn 119

XIV Palladino Outdone 130

XV The Cadence of the Crowd 138

XVI What We Forget 147

XVII The Children That Lead Us 159

XVIII The Martians 179

XIX The Complete Collector--II 189

XX When a Friend Marries 198

XXI The Perfect Union of the Arts 209

XXII An Eminent American 216

XXIII Behind the Times 227

XXIV Public Liars 238

XXV The Complete Collector--III 249

XXVI The Commuter 257

XXVII Headlines 270

XXVIII Usage 278

XXIX 60 H.P. 285

XXX The Sample Life 296

XXXI The Complete Collector--IV 313

XXXII Chopin's Successors 320

XXXIII The Irrepressible Conflict 327

XXXIV The Germs of Culture 336

NOTE

Of the papers that go to make up the present volume, the greater number were published as a series in the columns of the New York _Evening Post_ for 1910, under the general title of The Patient Observer. For the eminently laudable purpose of making a fairly thick book, the Patient Observer's frequently recurrent "I," "me," and "mine" have now been supplemented with the experiences and reflections of his friends Harrington, Cooper, and Harding as recorded on other occasions in the New York _Evening Post_, as well as in the _Atlantic Monthly_, the _Bookman_, _Collier's_, and _Harper's Weekly_.