MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
by Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
HIS OWN PEOPLE
by Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
| I. | A Change of Lodging |
| II. | Music on the Pincio |
| III. | Glamour |
| IV. | Good Fellowship |
| V. | Lady Mount Rhyswicke |
| VI. | Rake's Progress |
| VII. | The Next Morning |
| VIII. | What Cornish Knew |
| IX. | Expiation |
| X. | The Cab at the Corner |
RAMSEY MILHOLLAND
by Booth Tarkington
THE TWO VANREVELS
By Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A Cat Can Do More than Look at a King
CHAPTER II. Surviving Evils of the Reign of Terror
CHAPTER III. The Rogue's Gallery of a Father
CHAPTER IV. "But Spare Your Country's Flag”
CHAPTER V. Nero not the Last Violinist of his Kind
CHAPTER VI. The Ever Unpractical Feminine
CHAPTER VII. The Comedian
CHAPTER VIII. A Tale of a Political Difference
CHAPTER IX. The Rule of the Regent
CHAPTER X. Echoes of a Serenade
CHAPTER XI. A Voice in a Garden
CHAPTER XII. The Room in the Cupola
CHAPTER XIII. The Tocsin
CHAPTER XIV. The Firm of Gray and Vanrevel
CHAPTER XV. When June Came
CHAPTER XVI. "Those Endearing Young Charms”
CHAPTER XVII. The Price of Silence
CHAPTER XVIII. The Uniform
CHAPTER XIX. The Flag Goes Marching By
CHAPTER XX. "Goodby”
THE GUEST OF QUESNAY
By Booth Tarkington
1915
TO OVID BUTLER JAMESON
CONTENTS
THE BEAUTIFUL LADY
By Booth Tarkington
Contents
BEASLEY'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
By Booth Tarkington
Illustrated By Ruth Sypherd Clements
October, 1909.
CONTENTS
HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
By Booth Tarkington
IN THE ARENA
Stories of Political Life
By Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
By Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA
By Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG MAN WHO CAME TO STAY
CHAPTER II. THE STRANGE LADY
CHAPTER III. LONESOMENESS
CHAPTER IV. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
CHAPTER V. AT THE PASTURE BARS: ELDER-BUSHES MAY HAVE STINGS
CHAPTER VI. JUNE
CHAPTER VII. MORNING: “SOME IN RAGS AND SOME IN TAGS AND SOME IN VELVET
CHAPTER VIII. GLAD AFTERNOON: THE GIRL BY THE BLUE TENT-POLE
CHAPTER IX. NIGHT: IT IS BAD LUCK TO SING BEFORE BREAKFAST
CHAPTER X. THE COURT-HOUSE BELL
CHAPTER XI. JOHN BROWN'S BODY
CHAPTER XII. JERRY THE TELLER
CHAPTER XIII. JAMES FISBEE
CHAPTER XIV. A RESCUE
CHAPTER XV. NETTLES
CHAPTER XVI. PRETTY MARQUISE
CHAPTER XVII. HELEN'S TOAST
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TREACHERY OF H. FISBEE
CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT HARKLESS COMES HOME
LORDS
OF THE HOUSETOPS
THIRTEEN CAT TALES
CONTENTS
| Preface, | ix | |
| I | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat, | 1 |
| II | Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut, | 11 |
| III | Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion, | 29 |
| IV | Honoré de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat | 103 |
| (translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten) | ||
| V | Booth Tarkington: Gipsy, | 124 |
| VI | G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad, | 131 |
| VII | Mark Twain: Dick Baker's Cat, | 144 |
| VIII | Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat, | 149 |
| IX | Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolicœur's Cat, | 163 |
| X | W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat, | 198 |
| XI | William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend, | 203 |
| XII | Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat, | 220 |
| XIII | Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin, | 226 |