The Literary Shop, and Other Tales

I am lying at full length on a broken-down haircloth sofa that has been placed near the cobwebby window of an old garret in a country farm-house. It is near the close of a rainy day, and all the afternoon I have listened to the pattering of the heavy drops on the shingled roof, the rustling of th...

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The Literary Shop, and Other Tales

PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
CHAPTER I. IN AN OLD GARRET.
CHAPTER II. THE “LEDGER” PERIOD OF LETTERS.
CHAPTER III. SOMETHING ABOUT “GOOD BAD STUFF.”
CHAPTER IV. THE EARLY HOLLAND PERIOD.
CHAPTER V. MENDACITY DURING THE HOLLAND PERIOD OF LETTERS.
CHAPTER VI. THE DAWN OF THE JOHNSONIAN PERIOD.
CHAPTER VII. WOMAN’S INFLUENCE IN THE JOHNSONIAN PERIOD.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
AND OTHER TALES THE POETS’ STRIKE.
THE SOBER, INDUSTRIOUS POET,
THE TWO BROTHERS
THE STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN OF TALENT.
THE SOCIETY REPORTER’S CHRISTMAS
THE DYING GAG.
“ONLY A TYPE-WRITER.”
THE CULTURE BUBBLE IN OURTOWN.
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF JOKES.
McCLURE’S MODEL VILLAGE FOR LITERARY TOILERS.
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTCH AUTHORS AT McCLURE’S LITERARY COLONY.
THE CANNING OF PERISHABLE LITERATURE.
LITERARY LEAVES BY MANACLED HANDS.
McCLURE’S BIRTHDAY AT SYNDICATE VILLAGE.
LITERATURE BY PRISON CONTRACT LABOR.
CHRISTMAS EVE AT THE SYNDICATE VILLAGE.

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