IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS

BY

W.D. HOWELLS

ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1910
Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers
Published October, 1910
Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS

• The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way of Introduction
• A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth
• Sclerosis of the Tastes
• The Practices and Precepts of Vaudeville
• Intimations of Italian Opera
• The Superiority of Our Inferiors
• Unimportance of Women in Republics
• Having Just Got Home
• New York To the Home-comer's Eye
• Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth
• Ways and Means of Living in New York
• The Quality of Boston and the Quantity of New York
• The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles
• The Magazine Muse
• Comparative Luxuries of Travel
• Qualities Without Defects
• A Wasted Opportunity
• A Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle
• A Search for Celebrity
• Practical Immortality on Earth
• Around a Rainy-day Fire
• The Advantages of Quotational Criticism
• Reading for a Grandfather
• Some Moments With the Muse
• A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work

OTHER ESSAYS

• Autumn in the Country and City
• Personal and Epistolary Addresses
• Dressing for Hotel Dinner
• The Counsel of Literary Age to Literary Youth
• The Unsatisfactoriness of Unfriendly Criticism
• The Fickleness of Age
• The Renewal of Inspiration
• The Summer Sojourn of Florindo and Lindora
• To Have the Honor of Meeting
• A Day at Bronx Park

ILLUSTRATIONS