Nonfiction · 1900
The Ways of Men
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Contents
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1 — “Uncle Sam”
- Chapter 2 — Domestic Despots
- Chapter 3 — Cyrano, Rostand, Coquelin
- Chapter 4 — Machine-made Men
- Chapter 5 — Parnassus
- Chapter 6 — Modern Architecture
- Chapter 7 — Worldly Color-Blindness
- Chapter 8 — Idling in Mid-Ocean
- Chapter 9 — “Climbers” in England
- Chapter 10 — Calvé at Cabrières
- Chapter 11 — A Cry for Fresh Air
- Chapter 12 — The Paris of our Grandparents
- Chapter 13 — Some American Husbands
- Chapter 14 — “Carolus”
- Chapter 15 — The Grand Opera Fad
- Chapter 16 — The Poetic Cabarets of Paris
- Chapter 17 — Etiquette at Home and Abroad
- Chapter 18 — What is “Art”?
- Chapter 19 — The Genealogical Craze
- Chapter 20 — As the Twig is Bent
- Chapter 21 — Seven Small Duchesses
- Chapter 22 — Growing Old Ungracefully
- Chapter 23 — Around a Spring
- Chapter 24 — The Better Part
- Chapter 25 — La Comédie Française à Orange
- Chapter 26 — Pre-palatial Newport
- Chapter 27 — Sardou at Marly-le-Roy
- Chapter 28 — Inconsistencies
- Chapter 29 — Modern “Cadets de Gascogne”
- Chapter 30 — The Dinner and the Drama
- Chapter 31 — The Modern Aspasia
- Chapter 32 — A Nation in a Hurry
- Chapter 33 — The Spirit of History
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About the author
1854–1915 · Victorian
Eliot Gregory (1854–1915) was born in New York City, a great-nephew of James Fenimore Cooper, and after graduating from Yale in 1880 studied painting in Rome and then Paris, where he lived for much of his career and won a gold medal at the 1899 Salon. Writing under the pen name "An Idler," he published essays on American and French manners and society in magazines and collected them in Worldly Ways and Byways (1898) and The Ways of Men (1900). France made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1911 for his years of residence there. He died at his home in New York at sixty-one.
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