LV. Parke Godwin--"A Lion in a Den of Daniels"--The Literary Shop Again--Literary Piracy--British and American 227
LVI. The Way of Washington Officials--A Historical Discovery--A Period Out of Place--A Futile Effort to Make Peace--The "Intelligent Compositor" at His Worst--Loring Pacha--War Correspondents--The Tourist Correspondent--Loring's Story of Experience 234
LVII. "A Stranded Gold Bug"--Results of a Bit of Humor 247
LVIII. Mrs. Custer's "Boots and Saddles"--The Success and Failure of Books 252
LIX. Letters of Introduction--The Disappointment of Lily Browneyes--Mark Twain's Method--Some Dangerous Letters of Introduction--Moses and My Green Spectacles 255
LX. English Literary Visitors--Mr. Edmund Gosse's Visit--His Amusing Misconceptions--A Question of Provincialism--A Literary Vandal 265
LXI. The Founding of the Authors' Club--Reminiscences of Early Club Life--John Hay and Edwin Booth on Dime Novels 272
LXII. The Authors Club--Its Ways and Its Work--Watch-Night Frolics--Max O'Rell and Mark Twain--The Reckless Injustice of the Humorists--Bishop Potter's Opinion--The Club's Contribution of Statesmen and Diplomats--The Delight of the Authors Club "After the Authors Have Gone Home"--"Liber Scriptorum," the Club's Successful Publishing Venture 277
LXIII. In Newspaper Life Again--Editing the _Commercial Advertiser_--John Bigelow's Discouraging Opinion--Henry Marquand and Some of My Brilliant "Cubs"--Men Who Have Made Place and Name for Themselves--The Dread Task of the Editor-in-Chief--Yachting with Marquand and the Men I Met on Deck--Parke Godwin--Recollections of a Great and Good Man--A Mystery of Forgetting 286
LXIV. Newspapers Then and Now--The Pulitzer Revolution--The Lure of the _World_--A Little Dinner to James R. Osgood 300
LXV. Service on the _World_--John A. Cockerill--An Editorial Perplexity--Editorial Emergencies--In Praise of the Printers--Donn Piatt--"A Syndicate of Blackguards"--An Unmeant Crime 307
LXVI. First Acquaintance with Joseph Pulitzer--His Hospitality, Courtesy, Kindliness, and Generosity--His Intellectual Methods--The Maynard Case--Bryan's Message and Mr. Pulitzer's Answer--Extraordinary Political Foresight 319
LXVII. A Napoleonic Conception--A Challenge to the Government--The Power of the Press 327