Contiene índice: 257-264 p.

"First published in Mcmxlv."

Preface -- Overture -- 1. Portraits -- 2. Self-portraits -- 3. Miniatures -- 4. Caricatures -- 5. Characters -- 6. Specimen days -- 7. This love -- 8. Talk and talkers -- 9. Conversation pieces -- 10. Designs for living -- 11. Small talk from Helicon -- 12. Travel pictures -- 13. Interiors -- 14. Good company -- 15. Table talk -- 16. Fill up the glass! -- 17. At the shrine of Saint Nicotine -- 18. How d'ye do? -- 19. A la mode -- 20. The gentle art -- 21. Bookmanship -- 22. The magic pen -- 23. How to make poetry -- 24. Bubbles and squeaks -- 25. The art to praise -- 26. The golden calf -- 27. Say it with books -- 28. Plague of plagiary -- Epilogue -- Bibliography. Books from which quotations have been made -- index. "This anthology shows what writers of books think of their predecessors, their contemporaries, and themselves."--Pref.