Zola as a Romantic Writer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
3. CONTENTS: VOLUME 1 IX
4. INTRODUCTION Volume One XIII
5. Rhodes and the Reporters 1
6. Bandy Callaghan's Girl 3
7. Tales of the Day 13
8. A Steamship Voyage with Cecil Rhodes 13
9. A Salvation Boom in Matabeleland 18
10. Types of Western Men 23
11. A Delayed Masterpiece 25
12. Types of Western Men 28
13. Theory and Reality 30
14. Western City Types 33
15. The Benefit Field Day for the California Eastern Team 35
16. The Heroism of Jonesee 38
17. Van Alstyn Sees Polo at Burlingame 44
18. Western Types 47
19. "Man Proposes": No. 1 49
20. "Man Proposes": No. 2 52
21. Miss Papinta 55
22. Zola's Rome 58
23. With the Peacemakers 67
24. Man-Hunting 70
25. "Man Proposes": No. 3 75
26. Jack Hammond in Johannesburg and Pretoria 78
27. The Stage and California Girls 83
28. Zola as a Romantic Writer 85
29. The Santa Cruz Venetian Carnival 87
30. "Man Proposes": No. 4 93
31. "Man Proposes": No. 5 97
32. The Tennis Tournament 100
33. A Californian Jubilee 103
34. Fiction in Review 106
35. A Summer in Arcady 108
36. The Bivalve at Home 112
37. Trilby and Princess Flavia 117
38. Football in Town 122
39. On a Battleship 125
40. Maud Odell and Zenda 127
41. The Evolution of a Nurse 130
42. The Week's Football 133
43. Making of a Half-Back 135
44. Italy in California 139
45. The Week's Football 142
46. Re-Creating a University 145
47. The Week's Football 148
48. Moving a Fifty-Ton Gun 150
49. Election Night on a Daily 153
50. The Week's Football 156
51. The Making of a Pianiste 161
52. A Day with the U.C. Team 164
53. The Week's Football 168
54. The Stanford Eleven at Home 171
55. A Few Football Figures 174
56. The Week's Football 176
57. The "English Courses" of the University of California 179
58. His Sister 182
59. The Sketch Club Exhibit 188
60. The Week's Football 189
61. Lackaye "Making-Up" 191
62. Things and People 194
63. Fitting Cruisers for Service 195
64. The Winter Exhibition 198
65. How It Strikes an Observer 199
66. Waiting for Their Cue 202
67. College Athletics 204
68. In the Heat of Battle 207
69. A Question of Ideals 215
70. Latin Quarter Christmas 217
71. Inside an Organ 219
72. A Revolt 223
73. New Year's at San Quentin 226
74. What Is Our Greatest Piece of Fiction? 230
75. Hunting Human Game 231
76. "Fifi" 234
77. One Kind of "New Woman" 238
78. Passing of "Little Pete" 241
79. The U.C. Track Team 244
80. A California Artist 246
81. The Making of a Statue 250
82. A South-Sea Expedition 252
83. Things and People 254
84. Suggestions 256
85. A "Lag's" Release 259
86. Among Cliff-Dwellers 262
87. The First Born 265
88. The Puppets and the Puppy 268
89. An Opening for Novelists 272
90. Metropolitan Noises 274
91. Japanese Swordsmanship 276
92. Frawley's New Beauty 278
93. Fencing for Women 281
94. The Lady of Lions 284
95. Through a Glass Darkly 286
96. A Strange Relief-Ship 291
97. Training of Firemen 292
98. Excelsior! 297
99. The Question 299
100. INTRODUCTION Volume Two 307
101. THE APPRENTICESHIP WRITINGS OF FRANK NORRIS 1897—1898 339
102. Birthday of an Old Mission 354
103. Miss Sabel's Husband 358
104. His Wife's Son 361
105. A Bicycle Gymkhana 365
106. "This Animal of a Buldy Jones" 368
107. The Opinions of Leander 375
108. Miss Tyree Talks 379
109. The Opinions of Leander 382
110. A Miner Interviewed 386
111. The Theatres 388
112. The "Upper Office" at Work 391
113. The Opinions of Leander 395
114. Japan Transplanted 399
115. Sailing of the Excelsior 400
116. The Newest Books 404
117. "Boom" 406
118. The Opinions of Leander 410
119. A Cat and Dog Life 415
120. From Field to Storehouse 418
121. A Reversion to Type 420
122. Mrs. Carter at Home 426
123. Opinions of Leander 428
124. The House With the Blinds 431
125. Millard's Tales 437
126. Opinions of Justin Sturgis 439
127. The Third Circle 443
128. Belasco on Plays 451
129. The Story of a Wall 453
130. The End of the Beginning 457
131. Fiction is Selection 464
132. A Case for Lombroso 467
133. Thomas on Tendencies 473
134. His Single Blessedness 475
135. Life-Line and Surf-Boat 480
136. The Frivolous Gyp 483
137. The Hopkins Institute 486
138. The Tale and the Truth 488
139. Execution Without Judgment 491
140. Miracle Joyeux 495
141. Judy's Service of Gold Plate 502
142. The Associated Un-Charities 506
143. Fantaisie Printanière 515
144. His Dead Mother's Portrait 524
145. Shorty Stack, Pugilist 527
146. The End of the Act 535
147. The Isabella Regina 538
148. The Mira Monte Club 543
149. Happiness by Conquest 545
150. Holiday Literature 547
151. Cosmopolitan San Francisco 550
152. Perverted Tales 554
153. THE 'RICKSHA THAT HAPPENED 555
154. THE GREEN STONE OF UNREST 557
155. A HERO OF TOMATO CAN 559
156. VAN BUBBLES' STORY 562
157. AMBROSIA BEER 565
158. I CALL ON LADY DOTTY 567
159. Little Drama of the Curbstone 570
160. Forgotten History 571
161. The Postal Telegraph 573
162. Scene Mounting of the Future 575
163. Sanitary Reduction 578
164. Reviews in Brief 581
165. An Elopement 582
166. At Home From Eight to Twelve 585
167. Reviews in Brief 588
168. The Drowned Who Do Not Die 590
169. TEXTUAL AFTERWORD 599