Turns About Town

About this eBook

Author

Holliday, Robert Cortes, 1880-1947

Title

Turns about Town

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Essays

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36085

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36085

Release Date

May 11, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TURNS ABOUT TOWN — FOREWORD — CONTENTS — TURNS ABOUT TOWN — CHAPTER I THE HOTEL GUEST — CHAPTER II A HUMORIST MISFITS AT A MURDER TRIAL — CHAPTER III QUEER THING, 'BOUT UNDERTAKERS' SHOPS — CHAPTER IV THE HAIR CUT THAT WENT TO MY HEAD — CHAPTER V SEEING MR. CHESTERTON — CHAPTER VI WHEN IS A GREAT CITY A SMALL VILLAGE? — CHAPTER VII THE UNUSUALNESS OF PARISIAN PHILADELPHIA — CHAPTER VIII OUR LAST SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AS A FINE ART — CHAPTER IX WRITING IN ROOMS — CHAPTER X TAKING THE AIR IN SAN FRANCISCO — CHAPTER XI BIDDING MR. CHESTERTON GOOD-BYE — CHAPTER XII NO SYSTEM AT ALL TO THE HUMAN SYSTEM — CHAPTER XIII SEEING THE "SITUATIONS WANTED" SCENE — CHAPTER XIV LITERARY LIVES — CHAPTER XV SO VERY THEATRICAL — CHAPTER XVI OUR STEEPLEJACK OF THE SEVEN ARTS — CHAPTER XVII FORMER TENANT OF HIS ROOM — CHAPTER XVIII ONLY SHE WAS THERE — CHAPTER XIX A HUMORIST'S NOTE-BOOK — CHAPTER XX INCLUDING STUDIES OF TRAFFIC "COPS" — CHAPTER XXI THREE WORDS ABOUT LITERATURE — CHAPTER XXII RECOLLECTIONS OF LANDLADIES — CHAPTER XXIII AN IDIOSYNCRASY — CHAPTER XXIV THE SEXLESS CAMERA — CHAPTER XXV I KNOW AN EDITOR — CHAPTER XXVI A DIP INTO THE UNDERWORLD — CHAPTER XXVII NOSING 'ROUND WASHINGTON — I — II — III — IV — CHAPTER XXVIII FAME: A STORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

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