TY - SER AU - Curtis, George William, TI - From the Easy Chair, Volume 1 AV - PS PY - 2005/// PB - Project Gutenberg, KW - American essays N1 - 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 -- Rip Van Winkle -- A Chinese critic -- Holiday sauntering -- Wendell Phillips at Harvard [1881] -- Easter bonnets -- Jenny Lind -- The town -- Sarah Shaw Russell -- Street music -- A little dinner with Thackeray -- Cecilia playing -- The mannerless sex -- Robert Browning in Florence -- Players -- Unmusical boxes -- The academy dinner in Arcadia; Public domain in the USA; Text UR - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7475 ER -