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Culture’s Garland

by Eugene Field

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Author
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
Title
Culture's garland : Being memoranda of the gradual rise of literature, art, music and society in Chicago, and other western ganglia
Original Publication
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1887.
Credits
Richard Tonsing, Hannah Wilson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Chicago (Ill.) -- Humor
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 78956
Release Date
June 26, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Culture’s Garland BEING MEMORANDA OF THE GRADUAL RISE OF LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN CHICAGO, AND OTHER WESTERN GANGLIA
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS. — Mr. Kinsley’s Book.
  4. 4.Literature and Art.
  5. 5.The Cooley Poems.
  6. 6.Judge Cooley’s Denial.
  7. 7.Literary Notes.
  8. 8.Mr. Doty Mad.
  9. 9.Chicago Palmistry.
  10. 10.A Marvellous Invention.
  11. 11.Books and Authors.
  12. 12.Chicago Hamlets.
  13. 13.The Literary Wayside.
  14. 14.A Beautiful Article of Virtue.
  15. 15.The Shakespeares Identified.
  16. 16.Among the Literati.
  17. 17.The Markeesy di Pullman.
  18. 18.Literary Laconics.
  19. 19.As to the Garter of a Markeesy.
  20. 20.Mr. Emerson in ’Frisco.
  21. 21.A Summer Philosopher.
  22. 22.The Truth about Dante.
  23. 23.The Good Cause.
  24. 24.The Convention of Western Writers.
  25. 25.The Poet’s Corner.
  26. 26.A Western Boy’s Lament.
  27. 27.The Story of Xanthippe.
  28. 28.Philadelphia.
  29. 29.Humanity.
  30. 30.Baked Beans and Culture.
  31. 31.Mr. Isaac Watts, Tutor.
  32. 32.The Revision.
  33. 33.The Official Explanation.
  34. 34.Yankee Chorus Girls.
  35. 35.Mr. Dixey as a Nemesis.
  36. 36.Professor Lowell in Chicago.
  37. 37.Mr. Elder’s Fright.
  38. 38.Ethel’s Christmas Tale. — A CHRISTMAS STORY.
  39. 39.Chicago Weather.
  40. 40.A Chicago Christmas Legend.
  41. 41.A Plea for the Classics.
  42. 42.Mlle. Prud’homme’s Book.
  43. 43.Her Genuine Culture.
  44. 44.The Demand for Condensed Music.
  45. 45.Opera, Opuses, and Opi.
  46. 46.Chicago the Music Centre.
  47. 47.Still Blooming.
  48. 48.The Offence.
  49. 49.A Lament.
  50. 50.The Apology.
  51. 51.A German Personal.
  52. 52.Col. Aldrich’s “Last Cæsar” ( 1 ).
  53. 53.Col. Aldrich’s “Last Cæsar” ( 2 ).
  54. 54.Miss Bayle’s Romance.
  55. 55.A Humorist’s Courtship.
  56. 56.That One Floating Vote.
  57. 57.A Persian Mission.
  58. 58.A Senator’s Valor.
  59. 59.Season of New Music.
  60. 60.Apollo Located.
  61. 61.An Exile’s Nuptials.
  62. 62.Patronize Home Art.
  63. 63.An Old Feud.
  64. 64.A Hegira Threatened.
  65. 65.A Spanish Romance.
  66. 66.More about Miss Field.
  67. 67.A Kentuckian’s Sagacity.
  68. 68.Col. Judd’s Narrow Escape.
  69. 69.A White-House Ballad.—I.
  70. 70.An Editorial Schedule.
  71. 71.A White-House Ballad.—II.
  72. 72.The Haskells, Père et Fils.
  73. 73.A White-House Ballad.—III.
  74. 74.More about Col. Haskell.
  75. 75.Another New Book.
  76. 76.Mr. Slattery of Boston.
  77. 77.Mme. L’Allemand’s Humor.
  78. 78.A Veteran Actor.
  79. 79.A White-House Ballad.—IV.
  80. 80.Life, Death, and Love.
  81. 81.Pike’s Peak.
  82. 82.Christian-County Mosquitoes.
  83. 83.The Dying Soldier.
  84. 84.His First Day at Editing.
  85. 85.The Little Peach.
  86. 86.Learning and Literature.
  87. 87.Some Famous Apologies.
  88. 88.Victoria at the Show.
  89. 89.A Farmer’s Advice.
  90. 90.A Chicago German Lyric.
  91. 91.The Works of Sappho.
  92. 92.November.
  93. 93.A Novelette.
  94. 94.Inter-State Commerce Bill Items.
  95. 95.The Wizard of Vermilion.
  96. 96.Why He was Tardy.
  97. 97.Base-Ball as a Classic.
  98. 98.Culled in Helicon.
  99. 99.Oon Criteek de Bernhardt.
  100. 100.Oon Conversarzyony Frongsay.
  101. 101.A Fearless Protector .
  102. 102.Mr. Knapp’s Scheme.
  103. 103.A Fine Old Book.
  104. 104.Stealing Our Thunder.
  105. 105.Lost, Strayed, or Stolen.
  106. 106.Condensed Literature.
  107. 107.Dr. Warner in Chicago.
  108. 108.An Anxious Inquiry.
  109. 109.A Chip of the Old Block.
  110. 110.The Crown Jewels.
  111. 111.Mr. Goodwin’s Yacht.
  112. 112.A Laudable Scheme.
  113. 113.The Era of Reform.
  114. 114.The Drama Discussed.
  115. 115.The Vale of Cashmere.
  116. 116.The Friend of the Indian.
  117. 117.The Way of the Sex.
  118. 118.After Many Years.
  119. 119.A Society Item.
  120. 120.“Die Walküre” und der Boomerangelungen.
  121. 121.An Angered Teuton.
  122. 122.“ Die Walküre ” Analyzed.
  123. 123.A Felicitous Toast.
  124. 124.The Farmer Candidate.
  125. 125.The Mummy’s Conundrum.

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