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CHAPTER I _The Puce Dressing-gown_ The peculiar angle of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic-- that angle which is chiefly responsible for our geography and therefore for our history-...

CHAPTER I BEGINNING OF THE IDYLL In the Five Towns human nature is reported to be so hard that you can break stones on it.

* * * * * First published January 1905 * * * * * TO MARCEL SCHWOB MY LITERARY GODFATHER IN FRANCE * * * * ...

ILLUSTRATIONS THE GLORY OF FIFTH AVENUE INSPIRES EVEN THOSE ON FOOT _Frontispiece_ DISEMBARKING AT NEW YORK _Facing p._ 10 THE DOWN-TOWN BROADWAY OF CROWED S...

CHAPTER I There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.

CHAPTER I THE DOME He wakened from a charming dream, in which the hat had played a conspicuous part.