From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 [electronic resource] /
George William Curtis
- Project Gutenberg, 2005
- Project Gutenberg 7475 .
Edward Everett in 1862 -- At the opera in 1864 -- Emerson lecturing -- Shops and shopping -- Mrs. Grundy and the cosmopolitan -- Dickens reading [1867] -- Phillis -- Thoreau and my Lady Cavaliere -- Honestus at the caucus -- Thalberg and other pianists [1871] -- Urbs and rus -- Rip Van Winkle -- A Chinese critic -- Holiday sauntering -- Wendell Phillips at Harvard [1881] -- Easter bonnets -- Jenny Lind -- The town -- Sarah Shaw Russell -- Street music -- A little dinner with Thackeray -- Cecilia playing -- The mannerless sex -- Robert Browning in Florence -- Players -- Unmusical boxes -- The academy dinner in Arcadia.