Contents Preface Dogs and Men Henry C. Merwin Jungle Night William Beebe The Devil Baby at Hull-House Jane Every Man's Natural Desire to be Somebody Else Samuel McChord Crothers The Temple's Difficult Door Robert M. Gay Exile and Postman Jean Kenyan Mackenzie The Life of Adventure Edgar J. Goodspeed An Indictment of Intercollegiate Athletics William T. Foster Car-Window Botany Lida F. Baldwin Studies in Solitude Fannie Stearns Gifford The Greek Genius John Jay Chapman In Praise of Old Ladies Lucy Martin Donnelly A Memory of Old Gentlemen Sharlot M. Hall Viola's Lovers Richard Bowland Kimball Haunted Lives Laura Spencer Portor The Acropolis and Golgotha Anne C. E. Allinson The Baptizing of the Baby Elizabeth Taylor Biographical Notes