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Plum Pudding (version 2)

Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he has occupied himself with books in particular, but also with divers other ingredients such as city and suburban incidents, women, dogs, children, tadpoles, and so on. (6 hr 56 min)

Chapters

Dedication and Foreword

1:14

The Perfect Reader

5:31

The Autogenesis of a Poet

21:02

The Old Reliable

6:02

In Memoriam Francis Barton Gummere

9:33

Adventures at Lunch Time

10:43

Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club

10:12

Initiation

8:32

Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club

7:03

A Preface to the Profession of Journalism

9:07

Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman

11:56

McSorley's

11:07

A Portrait

7:29

Going to Philadelphia

25:07

Our Tricolour Tie

17:32

The Club of Abandoned Husbands

8:24

West Broadway

10:19

The Rudeness of Poets

7:01

1100 Words

7:18

Some Inns

16:21

The Club in Hoboken

8:52

The Club at its Worst

5:23

A Suburban Sentimentalist

9:19

Gissing

8:17

A Dialogue

6:24

At the Gasthof Zum Ochsen

5:34

Mr Conrad's New Preface

6:43

The Little House

5:54

Tadpoles

6:22

Magic in Salamis

9:33

Consider the Commuter

19:37

The Permanence of Poetry

5:44

Books of the Sea

20:41

Fallacious Meditations on Criticism

15:38

Letting out the Furnace

5:56

By the Fireplace

6:37

A City Note-Book

35:05

Thoughts in the Subway

8:33

Dempsey vs. Carpentier

9:06

A Letter To A Sea Captain (To D.W.B.)

5:50