XXXVII. Libel Suit Experiences--The Queerest of Libel Suits--John Y. McKane's Case 119
XXXVIII. Early Newspaper Experiences--Two Interviews with President Grant--Grant's Method 123
XL. Hearth and Home--Mary Mapes Dodge--Frank R. Stockton--A Whimsical View of Plagiary 131
XLI. Some Plagiarists I Have Known--A Peculiar Case of Plagiary--A Borrower from Stedman 139
XLII. The "Hoosier Schoolmaster's" Influence--Hearth and Home Friendships and Literary Acquaintance--My First Book--Mr. Howells and "A Rebel's Recollections"--My First After-Dinner Speech--Mr. Howells, Mark Twain, and Mr. Sanborn to the Rescue 145
XLIII. A Novelist by Accident--"A Man of Honor" and the Plagiarists of Its Title--A "Warlock" on the Warpath and a Lot of Fun Lost 151
XLIV. John Hay and the Pike County Ballads--His Own Story of Them and of Incidents Connected with Them 157
XLV. A Disappointed Author--George Ripley's Collection of Applications for His Discharge--Joe Harper's Masterpiece--Manuscripts and Their Authors--Mr. George P. Putnam's Story 166
XLVI. Joaquin Miller--Dress Reform à la Stedman 172
XLVII. Beginnings of Newspaper Illustration--Accident's Part in the Literary Life--My First Boys' Book--How One Thing Leads to Another 179
XLVIII. The First Time I Was Ever Robbed--The _Evening Post_ Under Mr. Bryant--An Old-Fashioned Newspaper--Its Distinguished Outside Staff--Its Regard for Literature--Newspaper Literary Criticism and the Critics of That Time--Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Idea of New York as a Place of Residence--My Own Appointment and the Strange Manner of It 186
XLIX. A Study of Mr. Bryant--The Irving Incident 194
L. Mr. Bryant's Tenderness Towards Poets--A Cover Commendation--How I Grieved a Poet--Anonymous Literary Criticism 199
LI. A Thrifty Poet's Plan--Mr. Bryant and the Poe Article--The Longfellow Incident--The Tupper Embarrassment 205
LII. Mr Bryant's _Index Expurgatorius_--An Effective Blunder in English--Mr. Bryant's Dignified Democracy--Mr. Cleveland's Coarser Method--Mr. Bryant and British Snobbery 209
LIII. The Newspaper Critic's Function--A Literary News "Beat"--Mr. Bryant and Contemporary Poets--Concerning Genius--The True Story of "Thanatopsis" 217
LIV. An Extraordinary Case of Heterophemy--The Demolition of a Critic 222