[Illustration: Portrait of the author]

FROM THE EASY CHAIR

BY

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS




"I shall from Time to Time Report and Consider all Matters of what
Kind Soever that shall occur to Me." --THE TATLER.



CONTENTS.


EDWARD EVERETT IN 1862
AT THE OPERA IN 1864
EMERSON LECTURING
SHOPS AND SHOPPING
MRS. GRUNDY AND THE COSMOPOLITAN
DICKENS READING [1867]
PHILLIS
THOREAU AND MY LADY CAVALIERE
HONESTUS AT THE CAUCUS
THALBERG AND OTHER PIANISTS [1871]
URBS AND RUS