AT THE OPERA
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS
BY
W.D. HOWELLS
ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1910
Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers
Published October, 1910
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS
- The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way ofIntroduction
- A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth
- Sclerosis of the Tastes
- The Practices and Precepts of Vaudeville
- Intimations of Italian Opera
- The Superiority of Our Inferiors
- Unimportance of Women in Republics
- Having Just Got Home
- New York To the Home-comer's Eye
- Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth
- Ways and Means of Living in New York
- The Quality of Boston and the Quantity of NewYork
- The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles
- The Magazine Muse
- Comparative Luxuries of Travel
- Qualities Without Defects
- A Wasted Opportunity
- A Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle
- A Search for Celebrity
- Practical Immortality on Earth
- Around a Rainy-day Fire
- The Advantages of Quotational Criticism
- Reading for a Grandfather
- Some Moments With the Muse
- A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work