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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Christopher Morley Author: Christopher Morley Editor: David Widger Release Date: May 26, 2019 [EBook #59614] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PG WORKS OF MORLEY *** Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS Click on the ## before many of the titles to view a linked table of contents for that volume. Click on the title itself to open the original online file. ## THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP ## WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS ## IN THE SWEET DRY AND DRY ## PARNASSUS ON WHEELS ## KATHLEEN ## MINCE PIE ## SHANDYGAFF ## PLUM PUDDING ## PIPEFULS ## SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE ## CHIMNEYSMOKE ## TALES FROM A ROLLTOP DESK THURSDAY EVENING TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP By Christopher Morley CONTENTS Chapter I The Haunted Bookshop II The Corn Cob Club[1] III Titania Arrives IV The Disappearing Volume V Aubrey Walks Part Way Home—and Rides The Rest of the Way VI Titania Learns the Business VII Aubrey Takes Lodgings VIII Aubrey Goes to the Movies, and Wishes he Knew More German IX Again the Narrative is Retarded X Roger Raids the Ice-Box XI Titania Tries Reading in Bed XII Aubrey Determines to give Service that's Different XIII The Battle of Ludlow Street XIV The "Cromwell" Makes its Last Appearance XV Mr. Chapman Waves His Wand WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS by Christopher Morley CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN IN THE SWEET DRY AND DRY By Christopher Morley and Bart Haley Illustrated By Gluyas Williams CONTENTS I. MYSTERY OF THE UNEXPECTED JULEP II. THE HOUSE ON CARAWAY STREET III. INCIDENT OF THE GOOSEBERRY BOMBS IV. THE GREAT WAR BEGINS V. THE TREACHERY OF MISS CHUFF VI. DEPARTED SPIRITS VII. THE DECANTERBURY PILGRIMS VIII. WITH BENEFIT OF CLERGY IX. THE ELECTION X. E PLURIBUS UNUM! XI. IT'S A LONG WORM THAT HAS NO TURNING PARNASSUS ON WHEELS By Christopher Morley CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN KATHLEEN By Christopher Morley CONTENTS I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII MINCE PIE By Christopher Morley CONTENTS ON FILLING AN INK_WELL OLD THOUGHTS FOR CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS CARDS ON UNANSWERING LETTERS A LETTER TO FATHER TIME WHAT MEN LIVE BY THE UNNATURAL NATURALIST SITTING IN THE BARBER'S CHAIR BROWN EYES AND EQUINOXES 163 INNOCENT OLD MEN A TRAGIC SMELL IN MARATHON BULLIED BY THE BIRDS A MESSAGE FOR BOONVILLE MAKING MARATHON SAFE FOR THE URCHIN THE SMELL OF SMELLS A JAPANESE BACHELOR TWO DAYS WE CELEBRATE THE URCHIN AT THE ZOO FELLOW CRAFTSMEN THE KEY RING "OWD BOB" THE APPLE THAT NO ONE ATE AS TO RUMORS OUR MOTHERS GREETING TO AMERICAN ANGLERS MRS. IZAAK WALTON WRITES A LETTER TO HER MOTHER TRUTH THE TRAGEDY OF WASHINGTON SQUARE IF MR. WILSON WERE THE WEATHER MAN SYNTAX FOR CYNICS THE TRUTH AT LAST FIXED IDEAS TRIALS OF A PRESIDENT TRAVELING ABROAD DIARY OF A PUBLISHER'S OFFICE BOY THE DOG'S COMMANDMENTS THE VALUE OF CRITICISM A MARRIAGE SERVICE FOR COMMUTERS THE SUNNY SIDE OF GRUB STREET BURIAL SERVICE FOR A NEWSPAPER JOKE ADVICE TO THOSE VISITING A BABY ABOU BEN WOODROW MY MAGNIFICENT SYSTEM LETTERS TO CYNTHIA I. IN PRAISE OF BOOBS II. SIMPLIFICATION TO AN UNKNOWN DAMSEL THOUGHTS ON SETTING AN ALARM CLOCK SONGS IN A SHOWER BATH ON DEDICATING A NEW TEAPOT THE UNFORGIVABLE SYNTAX VISITING POETS A GOOD HOME IN THE SUBURBS WALT WHITMAN MINIATURES ON DOORS SHANDYGAFF By Christopher Morley CONTENTS The Song of Shandygaff Titles and Dedications A Question of Plumage Don Marquis The Art of Walking Rupert Brooke The Man The Head of the Firm 17 Heriot Row Frank Confessions of a Publisher's Reader William McFee Rhubarb The Haunting Beauty of Strychnine Ingo Housebroken The Hilarity of Hilaire A Casual of the Sea The Last Pipe Time to Light the Furnace My Friend A Poet of Sad Vigils Trivia Prefaces The Skipper A Friend of FitzGerald A Venture in Mysticism An Oxford Landlady "Peacock Pie" The Literary Pawnshop A Morning in Marathon The American House of Lords Cotswold Winds Clouds Unhealthy Confessions of a Smoker Hay Febrifuge Appendix: Suggestions for Teachers. PLUM PUDDING Of divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned By Christopher Morley CONTENTS The Perfect Reader 1 The Autogenesis of a Poet 5 The Old Reliable 19 In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere 23 Adventures at Lunch Time 30 Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club 36 Initiation 42 Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club 47 A Preface to the Profession of Journalism 51 Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman 57 McSorley's 63 A Portrait 69 Going to Philadelphia 73 Our Tricolour Tie 86 The Club of Abandoned Husbands 95 West Broadway 100 The Rudeness of Poets 106 1100 Words 110 Some Inns 115 The Club in Hoboken 124 The Club at Its Worst 129 A Suburban Sentimentalist 133 Gissing 138 A Dialogue 143 At the Gasthof zum Ochsen 147 Mr. Conrad's New Preface 151 The Little House 155 Tadpoles 158 Magic in Salamis 162 Consider the Commuter 167 The Permanence of Poetry 178 Books of the Sea 182 Fallacious Meditations on Criticism 192 Letting Out the Furnace 202 By the Fireplace 206 A City Note-Book 210 Thoughts in the Subway 229 Dempsey vs. Carpentier 234 A Letter to a Sea Captain 239 PIPEFULS By Christopher Morley Illustrated By Walter Jack Duncan CONTENTS PAGE Preface vii On Making Friends 3 Thoughts on Cider 10 One-Night Stands 18 The Owl Train 25 Safety Pins 29 Confessions of a “Colyumist” 34 Moving 42 Surf Fishing 48 “Idolatry” 52 The First Commencement Address 60 The Downfall of George Snipe 63 Meditations of a Bookseller 66 If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House 71 Adventures in High Finance 74 On Visiting Bookshops 78 A Discovery 83 Silas Orrin Howes 91 Joyce Kilmer 97 Tales of Two Cities 109 I. Philadelphia: An Early Train Ridge Avenue The University and the Urchin Pine Street Pershing in Philadelphia Fall Fever Two Days Before Christmas In West Philadelphia Horace Traubel II. New York: 163 The Anatomy of Manhattan Vesey Street Brooklyn Bridge Three Hours for Lunch Passage from Some Memoirs First Lessons in Clowning House Hunting Long Island Revisited On Being in a Hurry Confessions of a Human Globule Notes on a Fifth Avenue Bus Sunday Morning Venison Pasty Grand Avenue, Brooklyn On Waiting for the Curtain to Go Up 236 Musings of John Mistletoe 240 The World's Most Famous Oration 242 On Laziness 244 Teaching the Prince to Take Notes 249 A City Notebook 253 On Going to Bed 270 SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE By Christopher Morley CONTENTS SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE BAYBERRY CANDLES SECRET LAUGHTER A CHARM FOR OUR NEW FIREPLACE SIX WEEKS OLD THE YOUNG MOTHER PETER PAN THE 5:42 READING ALOUD THE MOON-SHEEP MAR QUONG, CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN THE MILKMAN IN HONOUR OF TAFFY TOPAZ THE CEDAR CHEST O PRAISE ME NOT THE COUNTRY ANIMAL CRACKERS THE WAKEFUL HUSBAND LIGHT VERSE FULL MOON MY WIFE WASHING THE DISHES THE FURNACE THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES THE NEW ALTMAN BUILDING THE MADONNA OF THE CURB MY PIPE TO A GRANDMOTHER A HANDFUL OF SONNETS I II PEDOMETER ARS DURA O. HENRY—APOTHECARY FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET (1816) TWO O'CLOCK THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER THE WEDDED LOVER TO YOU, REMEMBERING THE PAST THE LAST SONNET THE WAR IRONY TO A FRENCH BABY AFTER HEARING GERMAN MUSIC IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN AVIATORS KILLED IN FRANCE THE FLAGS ON FIFTH AVENUE "THEY" BALLAD OF FRENCH RIVERS PEASANT AND KING TILL TWISTON WENT TO RUDYARD KIPLING TO A U-BOAT KITCHENER MARCH 1915 DEAD SHIPS ENGLAND, JULY 1913 (TO RUPERT BROOKE) TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR FOR THE PRESENT TIME AMERICA, 1917 ON VIMY RIDGE HAY FEVER, AND OTHER LITERARY POLLEN HAY FEVER, IF RUDYARD KIPLING HAD IT HAY FEVER, IF AMY LOWELL HAD IT HAY FEVER, IF HILAIRE BELLOC HAD IT HAY FEVER, IF EDGAR LEE MASTERS HAD IT HYMN TO THE DAIRYMAIDS ON BEACON STREET ON FIRST LOOKING INTO A SUBWAY EXCAVATION BALLAD OF NEW AMSTERDAM CASUALTY AT THE WOMEN'S CLUBS ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN MOONS WE SAW AT SEVENTEEN AT THE DOG SHOW THE OLD SWIMMER TO ALL MY FRIENDS A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL CHIMNEYSMOKE By Christopher Morley CONTENTS PAGE TO THE LITTLE HOUSE 19 A GRACE BEFORE WRITING 20 DEDICATION FOR A FIREPLACE 21 TAKING TITLE 22 THE SECRET 25 ONLY A MATTER OF TIME 26 AT THE MERMAID CAFETERIA 28 OUR HOUSE 29 ON NAMING A HOUSE 31 A HALLOWE'EN MEMORY 32 REFUSING YOU IMMORTALITY 35 BAYBERRY CANDLES 36 SECRET LAUGHTER 37 SIX WEEKS OLD 38 A CHARM 41 MY PIPE 42 THE 5:42 44 PETER PAN 48 IN HONOR OF TAFFY TOPAZ 49 THE CEDAR CHEST 50 READING ALOUD 51 ANIMAL CRACKERS 52 THE MILKMAN 55 LIGHT VERSE 56 THE FURNACE 57 WASHING THE DISHES 58 THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES 61 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN 62 THE OLD SWIMMER 66 THE MOON-SHEEP 70 SMELLS 71 SMELLS (JUNIOR) 72 MAR QUONG, CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN 75 THE FAT LITTLE PURSE 76 THE REFLECTION 80 THE BALLOON PEDDLER 82 LINES FOR AN ECCENTRIC'S BOOK PLATE 86 TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL 89 THE CRIB 90 THE POET 94 TO A DISCARDED MIRROR 97 TO A CHILD 98 TO A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN 100 TO AN OLD-FASHIONED POET 104 BURNING LEAVES IN SPRING 105 BURNING LEAVES, NOVEMBER 106 A VALENTINE GAME 107 FOR A BIRTHDAY 108 KEATS 111 TO H. F. M., A SONNET IN SUNLIGHT 113 QUICKENING 114 AT A WINDOW SILL 115 THE RIVER OF LIGHT 116 OF HER GLORIOUS MADNESS 118 IN AN AUCTION ROOM 119 EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY 120 SONNET BY A GEOMETER 121 TO A VAUDEVILLE TERRIER 122 TO AN OLD FRIEND 125 TO A BURLESQUE SOUBRETTE 126 THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK 129 STREETS 130 TO THE ONLY BEGETTER 131 PEDOMETER 133 HOSTAGES 134 ARS DURA 137 O. HENRY—APOTHECARY 138 FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET 139 TWO O'CLOCK 140 THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER 141 THE WEDDED LOVER 142 TO YOU, REMEMBERING THE PAST 143 CHARLES AND MARY 144 TO A GRANDMOTHER 145 DIARISTS 146 THE LAST SONNET 147 THE SAVAGE 148 ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH 149 ADVICE TO A CITY 150 THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 151 GREEN ESCAPE 153 VESPER SONG FOR COMMUTERS 157 THE ICE WAGON 158 AT A MOVIE THEATRE 161 SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE 163 THE MAN WITH THE HOE (PRESS) 167 DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE GOD? 168 RAPID TRANSIT 170 CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW 171 TO HIS BROWN-EYED MISTRESS 172 PEACE 173 SONG, IN DEPRECATION OF PULCHRITUDE 175 MOUNTED POLICE 176 TO HIS MISTRESS, DEPLORING THAT HE IS NOT AN ELIZABETHAN GALAXY 179 THE INTRUDER 181 TIT FOR TAT 182 SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE 185 THE PLUMPUPPETS 186 DANDY DANDELION 190 THE HIGH CHAIR 192 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT 193 AUTUMN COLORS 197 THE LAST CRICKET 198 TO LOUISE 199 CHRISTMAS EVE 203 EPITAPH ON THE PROOFREADER OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA 204 THE MUSIC BOX 205 TO LUATH 209 THOUGHTS ON REACHING LAND 212 A SYMPOSIUM 214 TO A TELEPHONE OPERATOR WHO HAS A BAD COLD 218 NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE TENDER-HEARTED 219 THE TWINS 227 A PRINTER'S MADRIGAL 228 THE POET ON THE HEARTH 230 O PRAISE ME NOT THE COUNTRY 231 A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD 235 THE MADONNA OF THE CURB 236 THE ISLAND 240 SUNDAY NIGHT 242 ENGLAND, JULY, 1913 246 CASUALTY 250 A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL 251 PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL SERVICE 253 ILLUSTRATIONS This hearth was built for thy delight— Frontispiece And by a friend's bright gift of wine, I dedicate this house of mine 23 And of all man's felicities— 33 A little world he feels and sees: His mother's arms, his mother's knees— 39 The 5:42 47 And Daddy once said he would like to be me Having cocoa and animals once more for tea! 53 But heavy feeding complicates The task by soiling many plates 59 How ill avail, on such a frosty night 65 The old swimmer 69