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Nonfiction · 1898

Worldly Ways & Byways

Eliot Gregory

Reading time
about 4.5 h
Length
64,001 words · 162 pages
Structure
40 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Forty short essays on the manners, vanities and social climbing of the fashionable world — American new money abroad, European aristocracy in decline, the small hypocrisies of high society on both sides of the Atlantic — by a keen, unsparing observer writing under the pen name "An Idler."

Eliot Gregory published Worldly Ways & Byways in 1898, the first of two essay collections drawn from his years moving in society in New York, Paris and Rome.

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Contents

  1. Note
  2. To the Reader
  3. Chapter 1 — Charm
  4. Chapter 2 — The Moth and the Star
  5. Chapter 3 — Contrasted Travelling
  6. Chapter 4 — The Outer and the Inner Woman
  7. Chapter 5 — On Some Gilded Misalliances
  8. Chapter 6 — The Complacency of Mediocrity
  9. Chapter 7 — The Discontent of Talent
  10. Chapter 8 — Slouch
  11. Chapter 9 — Social Suggestion
  12. Chapter 10 — Bohemia
  13. Chapter 11 — Social Exiles
  14. Chapter 12 — “Seven Ages” of Furniture
  15. Chapter 13 — Our Elite and Public Life
  16. Chapter 14 — The Small Summer Hotel
  17. Chapter 15 — A False Start
  18. Chapter 16 — A Holy Land
  19. Chapter 17 — Royalty at Play
  20. Chapter 18 — A Rock Ahead
  21. Chapter 19 — The Grand Prix
  22. Chapter 20 — “The Treadmill.”
  23. Chapter 21 — “Like Master Like Man.”
  24. Chapter 22 — An English Invasion of the Riviera
  25. Chapter 23 — A Common Weakness
  26. Chapter 24 — Changing Paris
  27. Chapter 25 — Contentment
  28. Chapter 26 — The Climber
  29. Chapter 27 — The Last of the Dandies
  30. Chapter 28 — A Nation on the Wing
  31. Chapter 29 — Husks
  32. Chapter 30 — The Faubourg of St. Germain
  33. Chapter 31 — Men’s Manners
  34. Chapter 32 — An Ideal Hostess
  35. Chapter 33 — The Introducer
  36. Chapter 34 — A Question and an Answer
  37. Chapter 35 — Living on your Friends
  38. Chapter 36 — American Society in Italy
  39. Chapter 37 — The Newport of the Past
  40. Chapter 38 — A Conquest of Europe
  41. Chapter 39 — A Race of Slaves
  42. Chapter 40 — Introspection

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About the author

Eliot Gregory

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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