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Contains thirty-eight stories from the author's mellow, humorous, and ironic moods

Gift of the Magi -- A cosmopolite in a café -- Man about town -- Cop and the anthem -- Love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- Mammon and the archer -- Springtime à la carte -- From the cabby's seat -- An unfinished story -- Romance of a busy broker -- Furnished room -- Roads of destiny -- Enchanted profile -- Passing of Black Eagle -- A retrieved reformation -- Renaissance at Charleroi -- Shoes -- Ships -- Hiding of Black Bill -- Duplicity of Hargraves -- Ransom of Red Chief -- Merry month of May -- Whirligig of life -- A blackjack bargainer -- A lickpenny lover -- Defeat of the city -- Squaring the circle -- Transients in Arcadia -- Trimmed lamp -- Pendulum -- Two Thanksgiving Day gentlemen -- Making of a New Yorker -- Lost blend -- A Harlem tragedy -- A midsummer knight's dream -- Last leaf -- Count and the wedding guest -- A municipal report